National Library of Australia

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Digital ContinuityThe Role of the National
Library of Australia

• Pam Gatenby
• Assistant Director General
• National Library of Australia
• pgatenby_at_nla.gov.au

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Digital Continuity Issues

• Identifying what is being produced
• Deciding what is worth saving
• Defining roles and responsibilities of different
  stakeholders
• Protecting resources against loss
• Ensuring on-going access and usability

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Role of National Library of Australia

• To collect, preserve and provide access to
  significant resources
• To provide infrastructure to support national
  resource sharing
• To take leadership role in facilitating
  cooperation
• To work at the international and national levels
  to research solutions to problems

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Action Plan for Online Resources

• Infrastructure development
• A digital archiving and management system
  (PANDORA)
• The National Bibliographic Database on Kinetica
• A metadata resource discovery service for
  electronic resources

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Action Plan for Online Resources

• Collection development
• Selective collecting and archiving of significant
  Australian online publications
• Co-operative archiving agreements with other
  collecting institutions
• A Code of Practice with Australian Publishers
  Association

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Action Plan for Online Resources

• Extension of Commonwealth legal deposit to online
  publications
• A mandate for collecting online Commonwealth
  government publications

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Action Plan for Online Resources

• Access
• Cataloguing archiving resources onto the NBD
• Managing the resources and testing preservation
  approaches
• Developing a national Persistent Identifier
  scheme and service
• Guidelines on managing resources for persistent
  access

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Collecting and Archiving Australian Online
Publications

• National Library has been archiving significant
  Australian web publications since 1996
• A collaborative, co-ordinated approach is
  required
• Key stakeholders include collecting agencies, the
  academic, government and commercial publishing
  sectors
• The National Collection of Australian Online
  Publications (in the PANDORA digital archive)

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The National Collection of Australian Online
Publications- Characteristics

• Selective in coverage
• Quality controlled
• Permission based
• Intended for national access (but with some
  restrictions)
• Representative of all formats and publications
  types
• Intended for long-term access

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The National Collection of Australian Online
Publications- Scope

• Detailed selection guidelines
• Guidelines stress the Australianess of the
  resource
• Subject, content, authorship and the authority of
  the resource are considered
• A resource must have some research value or
  social/cultural significance

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Types of Resources in the National Collection

• Research reports, working papers, discussion
  papers
• Conference proceedings and lectures
• Journal articles and whole journals
• Government and community web sites
• Political educational and cultural publications
  and sites

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PANDORA Management System - functions

• Gathering titles for archiving
• Managing administrative metadata
• Managing quality checking and problem fixing
• Preparing resources for public display
• Managing access restricitions
• Providing management reports

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Issues

• What else is worth saving?
• Roles and responsibilities
• Research use of archived collections

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• Thank you
• Pam Gatenby
• National Library of Australia

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