2 September 2008 - 12:00
The National Library of Australia is the lead institution for digital archiving and preservation in Australia. Its PANDORA Archive has been the repository for archived web resources in Australia for over ten years and is a mature but continually developing system. The archival management system PANDAS that underpins the Archive, is as of 2007, in its third major revision. Other web archiving activities also now include annual Australian Domain Harvests and the usage of Archive-It, both of which are conducted in conjunction with the Internet Archive. This paper discusses the current state of web archiving in Australia, and how libraries are adapting their services in recognition of the expanding role that online material plays in their collections. For many years it was considered that archiving could only ever completely capture a small, albeit representative, sample of the Internet. Today the gap between what is available and what can be archived is decreas
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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.
Guests: Uncle Dave Williams, Lee-Ann Buckskin, Professor Lisa Jackson-Pulver, Wesley Enoch, Katrina Sedgwick
These pieces of information are useful for finding a known item, where the user is searching for a specific broadcast that they already know exists. For the user searching more broadly by subjects or keywords, like “Indigenous” or “World War One”, they’re not going to find this record. We need to capture more information, so that broader searches will find this record in Trove. Luckily the ABC has included a large number of tags for each segment. These tags aren’t viewable to an ordinary user with their web browser but include additional helpful information – subjects, a brief description of the segment and more – that facilitate better discovery. To create a record for Trove, we capture data from both the elements displayed to users and this hidden data from tags.
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War hero Ben Roberts-Smith s high-profile defamation trial has been suspended because of Sydney s COVID-19 lockdown.
Mr Roberts-Smith, 42, is suing three newspapers at the Federal Court trial in Sydney over media reports alleging he was involved in war crimes, murders and bullying in Afghanistan.
He is also suing the outlets over a claim he assaulted a woman in a Canberra hotel.
The landmark trial, now in its fourth week, was due to this week hear the media outlets defence case after Mr Roberts-Smith s legal team wrapped up its case on Monday afternoon.
However barrister Nicholas Owens SC flagged on Monday that SAS witnesses - crucial to the respondents case - were unavailable due to border rules in Western Australia, Queensland and Victoria.