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Web Archiving at the National Library of Australia

Web Archiving at the National Library of Australia. Russell Latham Senior Web Archivist, National Library of Australia.

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Web Archiving at the National Library of Australia

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  1. Web Archiving at the National Library of Australia Russell Latham Senior Web Archivist, National Library of Australia

  2. “The Web's ever-expanding size, the dynamic and ephemeral nature of its content, and how this is to be captured, stored and made accessible for the long-term are some of the key questions being addressed by electronic archiving programs. “ PADI http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/92.html

  3. What is web archiving? • A web archive is not the same as the live web • Brings a different value to web content • Creating artefacts from the web • Preserved snapshots, slices, gobbets of time • Challenge of timeliness • At certain times some things are more interesting and valuable • Focus on the future and long term access (preservation objective)

  4. History: web archiving at the NLA • April Fools Day 1996: ‘Electronic Unit’ established • May 1998: public access to PANDORA titles • July 1998: first PANDORA ‘partner’ began participation • 10th participant joined in 2003 • June 2001: PANDAS v.1 released • Web archiving workflow system developed by NLA • 2002: Digital Archiving Branch • Our own identity at last! • Began first trial of ‘mainstreaming’ web archiving in Serials and Govt Deposit sections

  5. History: web archiving at the NLA • August 2002: PANDAS v.2 released • July 2003: joined IIPC • 2004: PANDORA added to UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register • July 2005: first .au domain harvest • Subsequent harvests in 2006, 2007, 2008 & 2009 • December 2006: “Web Archiving and Digital Preservation Branch” • July 2007: PANDAS v.3 released (at last!) • 2010: PANDORA search moved to Trove • May 2010: Proposal for whole-of-govt ‘opt-out’ arrangements through SIGB

  6. PANDORA Participants

  7. What we collect • Selective approach • Collaboration with PANDORA participating agencies • Modest in size • High quality, timely, high value collection, described and searchable • Accessible to the public

  8. Searchingthecollections • Subjects • Browse list • Collections • Agency based • Trove – Archived Websites • Trove – bibliographic • Search engines

  9. Collections

  10. Subjects/Browsing • When looking for non-specific resources • Wish to browse a topic area

  11. Agency based • Use the partners page http://pandora.nla.gov.au/partners.html

  12. Collections

  13. Election campaigns

  14. 2001 Federal Election 2004 Federal Election 2007 Federal Election 2010 Federal Election 1998 Federal Election 1996 Federal Election

  15. The Future

  16. Australian web domain harvests • Annual domain harvests 2005-2009 • Working with the Internet Archive • Covers .au top level domain and a bit more … • No public access • Quantity over quality; content not assessed or described; opportunistic rather than timely

  17. Comparative statistics DomainHarvests PANDORA

  18. Current status

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