ISSN 1443-0568 | no. 72 | December 2004
PANDORA:
The National Library of Australia’s (NLA) web archiving activities were highlighted
internationally when Paul Koerbin, Supervisor of the Digital Archiving Section,
delivered a presentation on the PANDORA Archive <http://pandora.nla.gov.au/>
as part of the 2004 Library Science Talks series in
The National Library was invited to give a presentation on the PANDORA Archive
as part of the 10th anniversary series of the Swiss Library Science
Talks. The presentations were delivered at the Swiss National Library in
Before arriving in Switzerland Paul presented a paper on PANDAS (PANDORA Digital Archiving System) at the 2004 International Web Archiving Workshop <http://www.iwaw.net/04/index.html>. The Workshop is a forum for web archiving specialists to present case studies and research and development activities and is held in conjunction with the European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL). PANDAS is a specialised and unique web archiving workflow management system developed by the NLA that has attracted international interest. The paper presented at the Workshop is available at <www.nla.gov.au/nla/staffpaper/2004/koerbin2.html>.
Paul also participated in the first meeting of the International Internet Preservation
Consortium’s (IIPC) Researchers Requirements Working Group (</www.netpreserve.org/>)
which convened at the British Library on 18 September. The Working Group aims
to bring together researchers and participants from major libraries involved
in web archiving to work towards a common vision and purpose in the way web
archives are developed. Other working groups of the IIPC also held their meetings
from 18–20 September. Monica Berko of the NLA attended these groups and is leading
the Deep Web working group whose objective is to identify strategies and produce
tools for archiving web content which is inaccessible to crawlers.
—Paul
Koerbin, Supervisor, Digital Archiving Unit
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