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7 October 2008 - 12:00 A paper presented by Dr Warwick Cathro to the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee. This paper provides extracts from the latest draft of the Project Initiation Document. It clarifies the scope of the overall Project, and the proposed scope of Stage 1. Background The Committee has been advised previously of the National Library’s intention to integrate its discovery services by undertaking a “Single Business Discovery Project”. This Project commenced in late August 2008. This paper provides extracts from the latest draft of the Project Initiation Document. It clarifies the scope of the overall Project, and the proposed scope of Stage 1. ....
A key conclusion of the Conference was 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 Aust ....