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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.
[Slide 2]
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.
Purpose of Collecting
The Library collects documentary resources relating to Australia and the Australian people so that the Australian community now and in the future can discover, learn and create new knowledge. The Library’s collections extend understanding of issues of contemporary significance, build strong community connections and underpin its leadership activities.
Scope of Collecting
The National Library of Australia’s statutory role is to maintain and develop a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australian people. This role is recognised through the National Library Act as well as the legal deposit provisions in the Copyright Act.
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A special ceremony held last week in Australia celebrated 17 sacred objects from the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia being repatriated to the Arrernte, Warlpiri and Warumungu communities in Central Australia.
Kluge-Ruhe’s collection at UVA consists of more than 2,100 paintings, ornaments, weapons, tools and other items and is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian art and culture. Most of those items have been purchased through Indigenous art centers from artists who created them specifically as artworks intended to be sold, and often sold abroad.
Decades after it was taken to the United Kingdom, a traditional Lardil headdress is set to be returned home to Mornington Island in the Gulf of Carpentaria.
The piece has arrived back in Australia as a part of an international repatriation program run by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS).
The culturally significant headdress - wound with human hair, painted with ochre and topped with emu feathers - originally belonged to the late Philip Jack, a member of the Mornington Island Dance troupe.
The group performed at the opening of the Sydney Opera House in 1973 before Mr Jack gifted the headdress to Maurice Routhan, who was his neighbour in Sydney before Mr Routhan returned to the UK.
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