National Library of Australia Staff Papers
This is a collection of papers and presentations by staff of the National Library of Australia on a wide range of subjects and areas of expertise. For older papers, see our PANDORA archive.
All papers are made available under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unless otherwise explicitly stated on individual publications.
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Publication date: 12 February 2013Topics: Trove, User experience, Statistics
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Publication date: 9 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 1 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 6 December 2012Transcript and presentation slides of a talk delivered at the Seminar Kebangsaan Sumber Electronik di Malaysia 2012 (National Conference on eResources in Malaysia) in Penang on 6 December 2012. The...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving
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Publication date: 27 November 2012This paper was delivered by Debbie Campbell, on behalf of Marie-Louise Ayres, at the State Library of Queensland on 27 November 2012. A video of the presentation is available on Youtube.Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 7 November 2012Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Director General, National Library of Australia delivering the Whyte Memorial Lecture at Monash University on 7 November 2012. The Lecture is held to celebrate the legacy of...Topics: Philosophy, Archiving
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Publication date: 4 September 2012Trove, Australia’s national discovery service, provides access to more than 300 million resources managed by more than 1000 Australian and international organisations, and by members of the public....Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 1 August 2012From the outset, digital preservation and conservation seem to be two very different professions. This paper explores the idea that both traditional and digital conservators not only have many...Topics: Digital preservation, Mediapedia, Web archiving
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Publication date: 11 July 2012Introduction The pervasiveness of sophisticated mobile devices by our users has given rise to a movement towards mobile delivery of library services. Each week Australian libraries are enabling...Topics: Mobile strategy
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Publication date: 21 June 2012This presentation introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand Trove and it's most recently released features. It also outlines some...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 21 June 2012Mediapedia: managing the identification of media carriers. Prometheus: managing the ingest of media carriers at the NLATopics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 2 May 2012Presentation by Paul Koerbin at the Australian Government Libraries Network (AGLIN) Information Sharing Forum, Canberra, 2 May 2012.Topics: Web archiving
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Publication date: 30 April 2012Presentation by Monica Omodei at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly Open day, Washington, 30 April 2012. For 15 years the National Library of Australia has...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 1 March 2012The National Library of Australia (NLA) is in the process of replacing much of its Digital Library Infrastructure. This presentation details the NLA’s development of models for a digital preservation...Topics: Digital collections, Digital Library, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 March 2012Both raw and synthesised research data is increasingly being recognised as a valuable asset and a valid research output. Journals are starting to require that data be made available to support the ...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Digital collections
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Publication date: 6 January 2012These are some of the ideas which the Digital Preservation team at the NLA has been working on over the last year. This presentation will talk about the rationale behind the building of some...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats
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Publication date: 1 January 2012The National Library of Australia has actively used a range of social media tools for the promotion, development and delivery of services for a number of years. In addition to whole-of-library...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Social media
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Publication date: 1 December 2011The National Library is built in a part of the world that does not experience many natural disasters but we do have disasters that affect our collections. It is the responsibility of the Manager of...Topics: Disaster preparedness, Preservation
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Publication date: 26 October 2011The National Library’s premier search service, Trove, offers a simultaneous search across varied content such as digitised newspapers; journal articles; books; theses; images; sound and video and...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 15 September 2011Presented at IIM Conference workshop 2011Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 1 July 2011The National Library of Australia is aware of growing user demand for mobile service delivery. Accordingly the Web Publishing Branch is building a mobile strategy and recently conducted a public...Topics: Mobile technology
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Publication date: 25 February 2011The report provides an overview of Trove development, contributor activity, marketing and promotion, and usage during the first year of service. Trove is a single discovery service (search engine)...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 15 February 2011This presentation discusses what digital ‘stuff’ the National Library of Australia is responsible for and explores some of the main issues regarding digital preservation of this ‘stuff’. It was...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 7 January 2011Trove is the National Australian discovery service focusing on Australia and Australians, launched at the end of 2009. It has been created and is managed by the National Library of Australia. Trove...Topics: Trove, Research, Resource discovery, Digital collections
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Publication date: 14 November 2010Notes and power-point slides of a paper on the use and disuse of Library of Congress subject headings in fiction cataloguing at the National Library of Australia which was presented at the BSANZ 2010...Topics: Censorship, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 September 2010In late 2009 the National Library of Australia released version 1 of Trove to the public. Trove is a free search engine. It searches across a large aggregation of Australian content. The treasure is...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 11 June 2010This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover: How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange)...Topics: Cultural institutions, Collecting institutions
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Publication date: 1 June 2010This paper introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand and market Trove, as well as describing mechanisms for exploiting it. There are...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 15 March 2010We all think we know where libraries are going. In the print age, libraries created collections for Australians in their local areas to learn from, and enjoy. They aspired to be well-resourced even...Topics: Cultural institutions, Libraries
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Publication date: 1 February 2010This article brings together and clarifies a number of key digital preservation theories. It proposes the concept of preservation intent: a clear articulation of a commitment to preserve an object,...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 February 2010The development of new search technologies, and new search behaviours, has opened up new opportunities for libraries to expose their holdings. Our users are more used to searching large aggregations...Topics: Metadata, Libraries Australia, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 January 2010Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) is a web-based system for interlibrary lending and document delivery between Australian libraries, managed by the National Library of Australia. The LADD...Topics: Libraries Australia, Interlibrary loans
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This article describes the AskNow chat reference service and its operation from 2002 to 2010.Topics: AskNow, Reference
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics.Topics: Digital collections, Digital curation
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Publication date: 10 December 2009This paper explores the idea that it may be possible to mitigate what are currently perceived as some of the major hurdles to any large scale, automated preservation strategy by implementing some...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 20 October 2009For 10 years the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand have each operated VDX as a national interlending utility. Being early adopters of the application created pain...Topics: Interlibrary loans, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Maxine Davis and presented by David Pearsonat the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. The National Library of Australia...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Andrew Stawowczyk Long and presented by David Pearson at the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. Arguably, we must take some...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Preservation
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Publication date: 1 October 2009This document attempts to present the different preservation methodologies that are currently available to the library, as well as provide an indication how these methodologies could be used to...Topics: Preservation, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 28 September 2009Presented at the 16th annual Music Council of Australia Assembly, 28th September 2009. The National Library of Australia has a long-established record of supporting robust discovery and delivery...Topics: Resource discovery, Digitisation
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Publication date: 25 June 2009Presented by Andrew Sergeant, Reference Librarian, National Library of Australia at the ninth Australian Library History Conference, 25-27 June 2009. This paper will firstly give a brief overview of...Topics: Braidwood Literary Institute
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Publication date: 25 May 2009This paper will identify and discuss a range of opportunities for collaboration that are available to institutions which are developing, managing and providing access to significant digital...Topics: Digital collections, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 1 May 2009What I am going to talk to you about today is some of my experience in dealing with, and the consequences of not looking after digital materials. Part 1: The current environment, some observations...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 16 April 2009The National Library has built a new service called People Australia that will allow users to discover the resources people and organisations create along with related contextual information. People...Topics: Research
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Publication date: 1 April 2009All digital information is stored on physical carriers. Given the variations in carrier types, the quantity produced and in circulation, along with the potential importance of the content being...Topics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 April 2009The National Library of Australia has a relatively small but important collection of digital material stored on common carriers such as floppy disks, CDs and DVDs. This includes both published...Topics: File formats, Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 March 2009The ANDP team had from the outset in January 2007 decided to make a considerable investment in software development in order to be able to quality assure digital outputs to ensure they met minimum...Topics: Newspapers, Text correction
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Publication date: 1 February 2009Two years ago the National Library of Australia decided to go the route of SOA, particularly REST web services. Since then we have developed a stack of them for varying projects. This talk will...Topics: Digital preservation, Digital collections, Metadata
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create...Topics: Resource description and access, Metadata
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service,...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In 2006, 1.4% of the Australian population or about 207,000 people volunteered with cultural organisations. These cultural volunteers worked a total of 30.6 million hours in art galleries, museums,...Topics: Cultural institutions, Volunteering
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Research aims To research and address current practices to strengthen the quality, quantity and management of visitor feedback received by cultural institutions. To provide Enhanced visitor...Topics: Cultural institutions, Visitor feedback, Organisational performance
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore.Topics: Newspapers
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was prepared by Hilary Berthon for the Microform & Imaging Review. It outlines some of the activities of the Australian Newspaper Plan.Topics: Newspapers, Digitisation
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Publication date: 1 November 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the Museums Association of NSW Working Spaces 2 gathering at St Clements Monastary, Galong (1 November 2008). The presentation demonstrated...Topics: Image capture, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 24 October 2008Presented at the ACOC seminar RDA: next generation cataloguing standard at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney on Friday 24th October, 2008. The cataloguing community is now preparing for a future beyond...Topics: ACOC, Resource discovery, Metadata, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 7 October 2008A 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...Topics: Resource discovery
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Publication date: 18 September 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference (18 September 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 2 September 2008The 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...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 14 August 2008The paper outlines the development of an open source software application for ingesting physical media, linking it to catalogue records, creating an accurate duplicate of the digital contents and...Topics: Digital preservation, Open source software, File formats
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Publication date: 1 August 2008Presented at the IFLA Satellite meeting on RDA, August 2008. The presentation covers: How other standards have influenced RDA, and in particular FRBR’s influence The structure of the RDA standard and...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 1 July 2008This paper explains some of the work done during the Rights Management project at the National Library of Australia, looking at the background to the project, the expected benefits, the process of...Topics: Rights management, Copyright
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Publication date: 1 July 2008An article by David Pearson and Colin Webb. This paper talks about the nature of file format obsolescence and a series of prototype questions designed by the National Library as a benchmark to help...Topics: File formats, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 July 2008A presentation written by Maxine Davis and David Pearson and given by David Pearson to the NLA Council (July 2008). The paper explores high level digital preservation issues relating to the NLA...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 June 2008Presented at the Deutsche Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, Germany, June 2008. Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for description and access. It will replace the Anglo-American...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 10 April 2008A presentation by Douglas Elford and David Pearson and presented at the Innovative Ideas Forum, hosted by the National Library of Australia (10 April 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 1 April 2008In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian...Topics: Metadata, Data commons
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Publication date: 1 April 2008This paper examines some of the strategies used by the National Library of Australia to build a collaborative music service on a national scale, and in particular the challenges faced in building...Topics: Music
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Publication date: 1 April 2008In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian...Topics: Metadata, Data commons
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Publication date: 1 April 2008This paper examines some of the strategies used by the National Library of Australia to build a collaborative music service on a national scale, and in particular the challenges faced in building...Topics: Music
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Publication date: 10 April 2008A presentation by Douglas Elford and David Pearson and presented at the Innovative Ideas Forum, hosted by the National Library of Australia (10 April 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 1 June 2008Presented at the Deutsche Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, Germany, June 2008. Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for description and access. It will replace the Anglo-American...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 1 July 2008This paper explains some of the work done during the Rights Management project at the National Library of Australia, looking at the background to the project, the expected benefits, the process of...Topics: Rights management, Copyright
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Publication date: 1 July 2008An article by David Pearson and Colin Webb. This paper talks about the nature of file format obsolescence and a series of prototype questions designed by the National Library as a benchmark to help...Topics: File formats, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 July 2008A presentation written by Maxine Davis and David Pearson and given by David Pearson to the NLA Council (July 2008). The paper explores high level digital preservation issues relating to the NLA...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 August 2008Presented at the IFLA Satellite meeting on RDA, August 2008. The presentation covers: How other standards have influenced RDA, and in particular FRBR’s influence The structure of the RDA standard and...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 14 August 2008The paper outlines the development of an open source software application for ingesting physical media, linking it to catalogue records, creating an accurate duplicate of the digital contents and...Topics: Digital preservation, Open source software, File formats
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Publication date: 2 September 2008The 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...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 18 September 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference (18 September 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 7 October 2008A 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...Topics: Resource discovery
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Publication date: 24 October 2008Presented at the ACOC seminar RDA: next generation cataloguing standard at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney on Friday 24th October, 2008. The cataloguing community is now preparing for a future beyond...Topics: ACOC, Resource discovery, Metadata, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 November 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the Museums Association of NSW Working Spaces 2 gathering at St Clements Monastary, Galong (1 November 2008). The presentation demonstrated...Topics: Image capture, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore.Topics: Newspapers
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was prepared by Hilary Berthon for the Microform & Imaging Review. It outlines some of the activities of the Australian Newspaper Plan.Topics: Newspapers, Digitisation
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create...Topics: Resource description and access, Metadata
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service,...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In 2006, 1.4% of the Australian population or about 207,000 people volunteered with cultural organisations. These cultural volunteers worked a total of 30.6 million hours in art galleries, museums,...Topics: Cultural institutions, Volunteering
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Research aims To research and address current practices to strengthen the quality, quantity and management of visitor feedback received by cultural institutions. To provide Enhanced visitor...Topics: Cultural institutions, Visitor feedback, Organisational performance
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Publication date: 1 February 2009Two years ago the National Library of Australia decided to go the route of SOA, particularly REST web services. Since then we have developed a stack of them for varying projects. This talk will...Topics: Digital preservation, Digital collections, Metadata
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Publication date: 1 March 2009The ANDP team had from the outset in January 2007 decided to make a considerable investment in software development in order to be able to quality assure digital outputs to ensure they met minimum...Topics: Newspapers, Text correction
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Publication date: 1 April 2009All digital information is stored on physical carriers. Given the variations in carrier types, the quantity produced and in circulation, along with the potential importance of the content being...Topics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 April 2009The National Library of Australia has a relatively small but important collection of digital material stored on common carriers such as floppy disks, CDs and DVDs. This includes both published...Topics: File formats, Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 16 April 2009The National Library has built a new service called People Australia that will allow users to discover the resources people and organisations create along with related contextual information. People...Topics: Research
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Publication date: 1 May 2009What I am going to talk to you about today is some of my experience in dealing with, and the consequences of not looking after digital materials. Part 1: The current environment, some observations...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 25 May 2009This paper will identify and discuss a range of opportunities for collaboration that are available to institutions which are developing, managing and providing access to significant digital...Topics: Digital collections, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 25 June 2009Presented by Andrew Sergeant, Reference Librarian, National Library of Australia at the ninth Australian Library History Conference, 25-27 June 2009. This paper will firstly give a brief overview of...Topics: Braidwood Literary Institute
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Publication date: 28 September 2009Presented at the 16th annual Music Council of Australia Assembly, 28th September 2009. The National Library of Australia has a long-established record of supporting robust discovery and delivery...Topics: Resource discovery, Digitisation
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Publication date: 1 October 2009This document attempts to present the different preservation methodologies that are currently available to the library, as well as provide an indication how these methodologies could be used to...Topics: Preservation, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Maxine Davis and presented by David Pearsonat the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. The National Library of Australia...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Andrew Stawowczyk Long and presented by David Pearson at the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. Arguably, we must take some...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Preservation
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Publication date: 20 October 2009For 10 years the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand have each operated VDX as a national interlending utility. Being early adopters of the application created pain...Topics: Interlibrary loans, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 10 December 2009This paper explores the idea that it may be possible to mitigate what are currently perceived as some of the major hurdles to any large scale, automated preservation strategy by implementing some...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 January 2010Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) is a web-based system for interlibrary lending and document delivery between Australian libraries, managed by the National Library of Australia. The LADD...Topics: Libraries Australia, Interlibrary loans
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This article describes the AskNow chat reference service and its operation from 2002 to 2010.Topics: AskNow, Reference
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics.Topics: Digital collections, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 February 2010This article brings together and clarifies a number of key digital preservation theories. It proposes the concept of preservation intent: a clear articulation of a commitment to preserve an object,...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 February 2010The development of new search technologies, and new search behaviours, has opened up new opportunities for libraries to expose their holdings. Our users are more used to searching large aggregations...Topics: Metadata, Libraries Australia, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 15 March 2010We all think we know where libraries are going. In the print age, libraries created collections for Australians in their local areas to learn from, and enjoy. They aspired to be well-resourced even...Topics: Cultural institutions, Libraries
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Publication date: 1 June 2010This paper introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand and market Trove, as well as describing mechanisms for exploiting it. There are...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 11 June 2010This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover: How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange)...Topics: Cultural institutions, Collecting institutions
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Publication date: 1 September 2010In late 2009 the National Library of Australia released version 1 of Trove to the public. Trove is a free search engine. It searches across a large aggregation of Australian content. The treasure is...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 14 November 2010Notes and power-point slides of a paper on the use and disuse of Library of Congress subject headings in fiction cataloguing at the National Library of Australia which was presented at the BSANZ 2010...Topics: Censorship, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 7 January 2011Trove is the National Australian discovery service focusing on Australia and Australians, launched at the end of 2009. It has been created and is managed by the National Library of Australia. Trove...Topics: Trove, Research, Resource discovery, Digital collections
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Publication date: 15 February 2011This presentation discusses what digital ‘stuff’ the National Library of Australia is responsible for and explores some of the main issues regarding digital preservation of this ‘stuff’. It was...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 25 February 2011The report provides an overview of Trove development, contributor activity, marketing and promotion, and usage during the first year of service. Trove is a single discovery service (search engine)...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 1 July 2011The National Library of Australia is aware of growing user demand for mobile service delivery. Accordingly the Web Publishing Branch is building a mobile strategy and recently conducted a public...Topics: Mobile technology
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Publication date: 15 September 2011Presented at IIM Conference workshop 2011Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 26 October 2011The National Library’s premier search service, Trove, offers a simultaneous search across varied content such as digitised newspapers; journal articles; books; theses; images; sound and video and...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 1 December 2011The National Library is built in a part of the world that does not experience many natural disasters but we do have disasters that affect our collections. It is the responsibility of the Manager of...Topics: Disaster preparedness, Preservation
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Publication date: 1 January 2012The National Library of Australia has actively used a range of social media tools for the promotion, development and delivery of services for a number of years. In addition to whole-of-library...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Social media
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Publication date: 6 January 2012These are some of the ideas which the Digital Preservation team at the NLA has been working on over the last year. This presentation will talk about the rationale behind the building of some...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats
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Publication date: 1 March 2012The National Library of Australia (NLA) is in the process of replacing much of its Digital Library Infrastructure. This presentation details the NLA’s development of models for a digital preservation...Topics: Digital collections, Digital Library, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 March 2012Both raw and synthesised research data is increasingly being recognised as a valuable asset and a valid research output. Journals are starting to require that data be made available to support the ...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Digital collections
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Publication date: 30 April 2012Presentation by Monica Omodei at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly Open day, Washington, 30 April 2012. For 15 years the National Library of Australia has...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 2 May 2012Presentation by Paul Koerbin at the Australian Government Libraries Network (AGLIN) Information Sharing Forum, Canberra, 2 May 2012.Topics: Web archiving
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Publication date: 21 June 2012This presentation introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand Trove and it's most recently released features. It also outlines some...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 21 June 2012Mediapedia: managing the identification of media carriers. Prometheus: managing the ingest of media carriers at the NLATopics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 11 July 2012Introduction The pervasiveness of sophisticated mobile devices by our users has given rise to a movement towards mobile delivery of library services. Each week Australian libraries are enabling...Topics: Mobile strategy
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Publication date: 1 August 2012From the outset, digital preservation and conservation seem to be two very different professions. This paper explores the idea that both traditional and digital conservators not only have many...Topics: Digital preservation, Mediapedia, Web archiving
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Publication date: 4 September 2012Trove, Australia’s national discovery service, provides access to more than 300 million resources managed by more than 1000 Australian and international organisations, and by members of the public....Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 7 November 2012Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Director General, National Library of Australia delivering the Whyte Memorial Lecture at Monash University on 7 November 2012. The Lecture is held to celebrate the legacy of...Topics: Philosophy, Archiving
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Publication date: 27 November 2012This paper was delivered by Debbie Campbell, on behalf of Marie-Louise Ayres, at the State Library of Queensland on 27 November 2012. A video of the presentation is available on Youtube.Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 6 December 2012Transcript and presentation slides of a talk delivered at the Seminar Kebangsaan Sumber Electronik di Malaysia 2012 (National Conference on eResources in Malaysia) in Penang on 6 December 2012. The...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving
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Publication date: 1 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 9 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 12 February 2013Topics: Trove, User experience, Statistics
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Publication date: 1 January 2012The National Library of Australia has actively used a range of social media tools for the promotion, development and delivery of services for a number of years. In addition to whole-of-library...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Social media
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Publication date: 1 December 2011The National Library is built in a part of the world that does not experience many natural disasters but we do have disasters that affect our collections. It is the responsibility of the Manager of...Topics: Disaster preparedness, Preservation
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Publication date: 7 January 2011Trove is the National Australian discovery service focusing on Australia and Australians, launched at the end of 2009. It has been created and is managed by the National Library of Australia. Trove...Topics: Trove, Research, Resource discovery, Digital collections
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Publication date: 15 February 2011This presentation discusses what digital ‘stuff’ the National Library of Australia is responsible for and explores some of the main issues regarding digital preservation of this ‘stuff’. It was...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 25 February 2011The report provides an overview of Trove development, contributor activity, marketing and promotion, and usage during the first year of service. Trove is a single discovery service (search engine)...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 1 July 2011The National Library of Australia is aware of growing user demand for mobile service delivery. Accordingly the Web Publishing Branch is building a mobile strategy and recently conducted a public...Topics: Mobile technology
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Publication date: 26 October 2011The National Library’s premier search service, Trove, offers a simultaneous search across varied content such as digitised newspapers; journal articles; books; theses; images; sound and video and...Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 15 September 2011Presented at IIM Conference workshop 2011Topics: Trove, Digital collections, Resource discovery
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Publication date: 6 January 2012These are some of the ideas which the Digital Preservation team at the NLA has been working on over the last year. This presentation will talk about the rationale behind the building of some...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats
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Publication date: 1 March 2012The National Library of Australia (NLA) is in the process of replacing much of its Digital Library Infrastructure. This presentation details the NLA’s development of models for a digital preservation...Topics: Digital collections, Digital Library, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 March 2012Both raw and synthesised research data is increasingly being recognised as a valuable asset and a valid research output. Journals are starting to require that data be made available to support the ...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Digital collections
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Publication date: 1 June 2010This paper introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand and market Trove, as well as describing mechanisms for exploiting it. There are...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 1 September 2010In late 2009 the National Library of Australia released version 1 of Trove to the public. Trove is a free search engine. It searches across a large aggregation of Australian content. The treasure is...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 15 March 2010We all think we know where libraries are going. In the print age, libraries created collections for Australians in their local areas to learn from, and enjoy. They aspired to be well-resourced even...Topics: Cultural institutions, Libraries
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Publication date: 20 October 2009For 10 years the National Library of Australia and the National Library of New Zealand have each operated VDX as a national interlending utility. Being early adopters of the application created pain...Topics: Interlibrary loans, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 1 February 2009Two years ago the National Library of Australia decided to go the route of SOA, particularly REST web services. Since then we have developed a stack of them for varying projects. This talk will...Topics: Digital preservation, Digital collections, Metadata
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service,...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 11 June 2010This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover: How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange)...Topics: Cultural institutions, Collecting institutions
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This paper discusses an Australian perspective of digital library economics.Topics: Digital collections, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 February 2010This article brings together and clarifies a number of key digital preservation theories. It proposes the concept of preservation intent: a clear articulation of a commitment to preserve an object,...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 February 2010The development of new search technologies, and new search behaviours, has opened up new opportunities for libraries to expose their holdings. Our users are more used to searching large aggregations...Topics: Metadata, Libraries Australia, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 January 2010This article describes the AskNow chat reference service and its operation from 2002 to 2010.Topics: AskNow, Reference
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Publication date: 21 June 2012This presentation introduces Trove, the National Library’s newest discovery service, and provides information to understand Trove and it's most recently released features. It also outlines some...Topics: Trove, Digital collections
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Publication date: 14 November 2010Notes and power-point slides of a paper on the use and disuse of Library of Congress subject headings in fiction cataloguing at the National Library of Australia which was presented at the BSANZ 2010...Topics: Censorship, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 January 2010Libraries Australia Document Delivery (LADD) is a web-based system for interlibrary lending and document delivery between Australian libraries, managed by the National Library of Australia. The LADD...Topics: Libraries Australia, Interlibrary loans
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Publication date: 1 April 2009The National Library of Australia has a relatively small but important collection of digital material stored on common carriers such as floppy disks, CDs and DVDs. This includes both published...Topics: File formats, Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 April 2009All digital information is stored on physical carriers. Given the variations in carrier types, the quantity produced and in circulation, along with the potential importance of the content being...Topics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 21 June 2012Mediapedia: managing the identification of media carriers. Prometheus: managing the ingest of media carriers at the NLATopics: Mediapedia, Digital curation
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Publication date: 1 May 2009What I am going to talk to you about today is some of my experience in dealing with, and the consequences of not looking after digital materials. Part 1: The current environment, some observations...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 March 2009The ANDP team had from the outset in January 2007 decided to make a considerable investment in software development in order to be able to quality assure digital outputs to ensure they met minimum...Topics: Newspapers, Text correction
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Library catalogues today need to harness the full power of the metadata that librarians have carefully created over previous decades. For those who describe resources the challenge is to create...Topics: Resource description and access, Metadata
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Publication date: 16 April 2009The National Library has built a new service called People Australia that will allow users to discover the resources people and organisations create along with related contextual information. People...Topics: Research
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Publication date: 25 May 2009This paper will identify and discuss a range of opportunities for collaboration that are available to institutions which are developing, managing and providing access to significant digital...Topics: Digital collections, Cultural institutions
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Maxine Davis and presented by David Pearsonat the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. The National Library of Australia...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 7 October 2009Prepared by Andrew Stawowczyk Long and presented by David Pearson at the IIPC (International Internet Preservation Consortium) Open Day, San Francisco on 7 October 2009. Arguably, we must take some...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving, Preservation
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Publication date: 25 June 2009Presented by Andrew Sergeant, Reference Librarian, National Library of Australia at the ninth Australian Library History Conference, 25-27 June 2009. This paper will firstly give a brief overview of...Topics: Braidwood Literary Institute
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Publication date: 28 September 2009Presented at the 16th annual Music Council of Australia Assembly, 28th September 2009. The National Library of Australia has a long-established record of supporting robust discovery and delivery...Topics: Resource discovery, Digitisation
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Publication date: 1 January 2009In 2006, 1.4% of the Australian population or about 207,000 people volunteered with cultural organisations. These cultural volunteers worked a total of 30.6 million hours in art galleries, museums,...Topics: Cultural institutions, Volunteering
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Publication date: 1 January 2009Research aims To research and address current practices to strengthen the quality, quantity and management of visitor feedback received by cultural institutions. To provide Enhanced visitor...Topics: Cultural institutions, Visitor feedback, Organisational performance
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Publication date: 2 May 2012Presentation by Paul Koerbin at the Australian Government Libraries Network (AGLIN) Information Sharing Forum, Canberra, 2 May 2012.Topics: Web archiving
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Publication date: 30 April 2012Presentation by Monica Omodei at the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly Open day, Washington, 30 April 2012. For 15 years the National Library of Australia has...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 1 October 2009This document attempts to present the different preservation methodologies that are currently available to the library, as well as provide an indication how these methodologies could be used to...Topics: Preservation, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 10 December 2009This paper explores the idea that it may be possible to mitigate what are currently perceived as some of the major hurdles to any large scale, automated preservation strategy by implementing some...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 7 October 2008A 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...Topics: Resource discovery
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was presented by Pam Gatenby at the IFLA International Newspaper Conference 2008 which was held at the National Library of Singapore.Topics: Newspapers
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Publication date: 25 November 2008This paper was prepared by Hilary Berthon for the Microform & Imaging Review. It outlines some of the activities of the Australian Newspaper Plan.Topics: Newspapers, Digitisation
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Publication date: 1 July 2008A presentation written by Maxine Davis and David Pearson and given by David Pearson to the NLA Council (July 2008). The paper explores high level digital preservation issues relating to the NLA...Topics: Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 November 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the Museums Association of NSW Working Spaces 2 gathering at St Clements Monastary, Galong (1 November 2008). The presentation demonstrated...Topics: Image capture, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 18 September 2008A presentation given by Douglas Elford and presented at the International Association of Sound and Audiovisual Archives Annual Conference (18 September 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 10 April 2008A presentation by Douglas Elford and David Pearson and presented at the Innovative Ideas Forum, hosted by the National Library of Australia (10 April 2008). This paper talks about a Digital...Topics: Digital preservation, File formats, Mediapedia
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Publication date: 14 August 2008The paper outlines the development of an open source software application for ingesting physical media, linking it to catalogue records, creating an accurate duplicate of the digital contents and...Topics: Digital preservation, Open source software, File formats
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Publication date: 1 July 2008An article by David Pearson and Colin Webb. This paper talks about the nature of file format obsolescence and a series of prototype questions designed by the National Library as a benchmark to help...Topics: File formats, Digital preservation
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Publication date: 1 April 2008In any journey, there's a destination but half the 'fun' is getting there. This article chronicles our journey towards a common way of packaging and exchanging digital content in a future Australian...Topics: Metadata, Data commons
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Publication date: 1 July 2008This paper explains some of the work done during the Rights Management project at the National Library of Australia, looking at the background to the project, the expected benefits, the process of...Topics: Rights management, Copyright
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Publication date: 2 September 2008The 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...Topics: Web archiving, PANDORA
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Publication date: 1 June 2008Presented at the Deutsche Bibliothekartag, Mannheim, Germany, June 2008. Resource Description and Access (RDA) is a new standard for description and access. It will replace the Anglo-American...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 1 August 2008Presented at the IFLA Satellite meeting on RDA, August 2008. The presentation covers: How other standards have influenced RDA, and in particular FRBR’s influence The structure of the RDA standard and...Topics: Resource description and access
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Publication date: 24 October 2008Presented at the ACOC seminar RDA: next generation cataloguing standard at the Powerhouse Museum, Sydney on Friday 24th October, 2008. The cataloguing community is now preparing for a future beyond...Topics: ACOC, Resource discovery, Metadata, Cataloguing
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Publication date: 1 April 2008This paper examines some of the strategies used by the National Library of Australia to build a collaborative music service on a national scale, and in particular the challenges faced in building...Topics: Music
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Publication date: 6 December 2012Transcript and presentation slides of a talk delivered at the Seminar Kebangsaan Sumber Electronik di Malaysia 2012 (National Conference on eResources in Malaysia) in Penang on 6 December 2012. The...Topics: Digital preservation, Web archiving
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Publication date: 1 August 2012From the outset, digital preservation and conservation seem to be two very different professions. This paper explores the idea that both traditional and digital conservators not only have many...Topics: Digital preservation, Mediapedia, Web archiving
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Publication date: 1 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 9 January 2013Clarifying preservation intentions is likely to be a good starting point for preservation planning for diverse digital collections. This applies both in terms of identifying what needs to be kept and...Topics: Digital preservation, PANDORA, Web archiving
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Publication date: 11 July 2012Introduction The pervasiveness of sophisticated mobile devices by our users has given rise to a movement towards mobile delivery of library services. Each week Australian libraries are enabling...Topics: Mobile strategy
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Publication date: 27 November 2012This paper was delivered by Debbie Campbell, on behalf of Marie-Louise Ayres, at the State Library of Queensland on 27 November 2012. A video of the presentation is available on Youtube.Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 4 September 2012Trove, Australia’s national discovery service, provides access to more than 300 million resources managed by more than 1000 Australian and international organisations, and by members of the public....Topics: Trove, Resource sharing
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Publication date: 7 November 2012Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Director General, National Library of Australia delivering the Whyte Memorial Lecture at Monash University on 7 November 2012. The Lecture is held to celebrate the legacy of...Topics: Philosophy, Archiving
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Publication date: 12 February 2013Topics: Trove, User experience, Statistics
