NLA Digital collections: Statement of Preservation Intent Collection Area: Newspaper Digitisation The NLA newspaper Digitisation Program has captured content predominantly from pre-1954, microfilmed Australian Newspapers, and to date includes some Journals content (e.g. Australian Womens Weekly 1933-1982). In the near future Journals will mostly be digitised via the NLA Books and Journals Workflow. For the following outputs for the Newspaper Digitisation Program, Digitisation and Photography Branch intends that:
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1. Purpose This statement outlines the National Library of Australia’s policy on preserving its digital collections, and collaborating with others to preserve digital information resources.
Digital Preservation Policy 4th Edition (2013)
1. Purpose
This statement outlines the National Library of Australia’s policy on preserving its digital collections, and collaborating with others to preserve digital information resources.
The Library’s digital preservation program forms part of its overarching Preservation Program which covers all formats of material the Library collects. This policy should be read in conjunction with the Library’s general Preservation Policy and other policy documents and guidelines relevant to the way digital resources are created, selected, acquired, described and accessed. These can be found on the Library’s website at Policy & planning and Policy and practice statement. Of particular relevance are the Library’s Collection Development Policy, Collection Digitisation Policy and Collection Preservation Intent Statements.
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The task is too large for individual institutions to undertake in isolation and the resources required for successful and sustained archiving are too great to make duplication of effort a tenable position.
Australia was an early implementer of web archiving. Since 1996 the National Library of Australia has been developing and maintaining PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications6. The purpose of PANDORA is to ensure that Australians of the future will be able to access a significant component of today’s Australian web based information resources.
Because of the high cost of selective web archiving, it makes sense for one agency (such as a national library) to develop both the expertise and the infrastructure for web archiving, and for other agencies to leverage off this investment. Accordingly, PANDORA is a collaborative activity, as the archive is being built by the Australian state