10 April 2008 - 12:00
A presentation by Douglas Elford and David Pearson and presented at the Innovative Ideas Forum, hosted by the National Library of Australia (10 April 2008). This paper talks about a Digital Preservation prototype database classifying and recording information about physical format materials.
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14 August 2008 - 12:00
The paper outlines the development of an open source software application for ingesting physical media, linking it to catalogue records, creating an accurate duplicate of the digital contents and transfer it to preservation managed digital storage. The paper and a presentation were given at on this project at the IFLA World Library and Information Congress in Quebec City, Canada (2008).
Introduction
This paper describes the work of the National Library of Australia in designing a workflow solution for the highest priority preservation risks confronting its collection of digital materials on physical carriers such as handheld optical and magnetic disks.
1 February 2017 - 12:00
In February 2016 the legal deposit provisions in Australia’s Copyright Act were expanded to include digital publications and the public .au web domain. The result of twenty years of advocacy, the new provisions marked a dramatic shift in how Australia collects, preserves and makes accessible the full online publishing landscape.
Legal deposit has been the core of the National Library’s collections and services since it was introduced in Australia in 1912. It remains the most important mechanism by which national and state libraries can preserve the published record of their countries or states. But since the emergence of electronic publishing in the 1980s and online publishing in the 1990s, the Australian legal deposit scheme has been only performing half its role.
10 December 2009 - 12:00
This paper explores the idea that it may be possible to mitigate what are currently perceived as some of the major hurdles to any large scale, automated preservation strategy by implementing some additional functionality into next generation operating systems. It explains some of the background issues, and addresses why this may, or may not be a viable idea.
Introduction
This paper presents some of the core issues that are currently facing any effective and long term large scale digital preservation actions. It proposes that the only sustainable way in which these issues will be overcome is by changing the way in which operating systems deal with, and provide an interface for users to deal with, digital content.
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PANDORA – past, present and future; or, national web archiving at in Australia.
A talk given at the Seminar Kebangsaan Sumber Electronik Di Malaysia 2012, Bayview Beach Resort, Penang, Malaysia, 6 December 2012.
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I am very pleased to be invited to Malaysia and this conference. My thanks especially to Mazmin Binti Mat Akhir for initiating and managing my participation.
I have been invited to talk about the PANDORA Archive, which is the National Library of Australia’s national web archiving initiative.
PANDORA was one of the world’s first web archiving programs, being set up in 1996. So we have more than 15 years experience in this activity.