Digital Continuity: the Role of the National Library of Australia
Pam Gatenby
Abstract
The focus of my presentation is the role of the National Library of Australia in ensuring significant Australian resources in online form are collected, archived and available for use in the long-term. I will also raise some issues that are of particular relevance to today’s audience. The first stage in ensuring sustainable access to digital resources is to protect the resources from sudden loss by placing them in a safe place – a digital archive – where they can be stored, accessed and managed. It is this first stage that I will concentrate on. An equally important stage in ensuring on-going access is, of course, carrying out preservation action - Colin Webb, the Library’s Manager of Preservation Services who will be speaking on this topic this afternoon, so I won’t cover it in my talk. After lunch, another NLA staff member, Margaret Phillips, Manager of Digital Archiving, will give a demonstration of the Library’s digital archiving system that we call PANDORA.
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