Pandora Archive

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PANDORA
Type of site
 web archive
URL pandora.nla.gov.au
CommercialNo
LaunchedOctober 1996;23 years ago (1996-10)

PANDORA was the national web archive for the preservation of Australia's online publications. It was established by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and is now built in collaboration with Australian state libraries and cultural collecting organisations, including the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Australian War Memorial, and the National Film and Sound Archive. [1]

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The name, PANDORA, is a bacronym that encapsulates its mission: Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia.

The PANDORA archive collects Australian web resources, preserves them, and makes them available for viewing. Access to the archive is made available to the public via the Pandora web site. Web sites are selected based on their cultural significance and research value. Each participating institution selects websites based on its own criteria relating to the overall mission of that institution. [2]

The provision for legal deposit of digital format publications was added to the Australian Copyright Act 1968 in 2016 so the National Library of Australia may copy Australian web sites without acquiring permission. [3] They do notify publishers before copying a web site to the PANDORA archive, and may request publisher assistance if required. [4]

The archival management system called PANDAS (PANDORA Digital Archiving System) is used to add a title into PANDORA. This was developed and is maintained by the National Library of Australia. The latest version is PANDAS 3 which was deployed in mid-2007. [5]

History

The first two titles were downloaded in October 1996. By June 1997 the archive contained 31 titles. By 2000, 600 titles had been archived, at which time the website was redesigned. The new site added subject-level access to titles and included documents relating to the PANDORA project. [6]

In August 1998 the State Library of Victoria became a participant in adding content. By 2003 all of the mainland State libraries, the Northern Territory Library, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian War Memorial [7] and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) [8] had become participants. The State Library of Tasmania is not participating in PANDORA, but is running its own project called Our Digital Island. [9]

Current and future status

In March 2019 it became part of larger the Australian Web Archive, which comprises the PANDORA Archive, the Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) and the National Library's ".au" domain collections, using a single interface in Trove which is publicly available. [10] [11] [12] [13]

As of March 2020, there were 62,959 archived titles, using 49.63 TB of data. [14]

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References

  1. ↑ "History and Achievements". PANDORA. 18 February 2009.
  2. ↑ "Selection Guidelines". PANDORA. 13 September 2013. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  3. ↑ "WHAT IS LEGAL DEPOSIT?". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  4. ↑ "NOTICE TO PUBLISHER OF ONLINE MATERIAL". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  5. ↑ "PANDORA Digital Archiving System (PANDAS)". PANDORA. 20 February 2009.
  6. ↑ Whiting, Julie (August 2000). "New look marks milestone for PANDORA Tour de Force". National Library of Australia: Gateways. National Library of Australia. Archived from the original on 24 May 2004. Retrieved 17 March 2014.
  7. ↑ "NLA Selection Guidelines". Pandora Archive. 5 June 2018. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  8. ↑ "Pandora Archive". Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  9. ↑ "Other archives". Pandora Archive. 24 August 2011. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  10. ↑ "Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia". Pandora Archive. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  11. ↑ "Australian web archive". Trove. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  12. ↑ "Archived websites". National Library of Australia. 23 March 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  13. ↑ Koerbin, Paul (11 February 2015). "The Australian Government Web Archive". National Library of Australia. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  14. ↑ "Statistics". Pandora Archive. 26 February 2020. Retrieved 30 April 2020.

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