Pandora

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PANDORA - Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources
in Australia

PANDORA is a project initiated by the National Library of Australia
to investigate strategies and implement procedures for the capture,
storage, preservation and access to digital data by creating an
electronic archive of library materials. It is being funded in part
by the Australian Vice Chancellors' Committee (AVCC) Working Group
on Electronic Publishing.

The Library is committed to preserving selected electronic
publications of lasting cultural value for access by the Australian
community now and in the future. It has already published Guidelines
for selection of online electronic materials of national
significance identified for preservation
(http://www.nla.gov.au/1/scoap/scoapgui.html). Some initial work has
been done on experimenting with ways of cataloguing, organising and
managing these publications so that  their existence is visible to
potential users.

We are interested in covering the full range of materials published
online in Australia--including serials, newspapers and books, as
well as unique online formats like "homepages". Since it is
essential that creators, publishers and collectors of electronic
publications should be included in considering the issues involved,
an advisory committee consisting of representatives of the major
stakeholders in the topic has been established. It will have its
first meeting during the Information Online and Ondisc Conference in
Sydney next week.

For further information on the PANDORA project, a fuller report is
online at http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/plan/pandora.html, or contact
the Project Manager, Wendy Smith on telephone +61 6 262 1667, or
email wsmith<-a t->nla< . >gov< . >au.

Jan Lyall
National Preservation Office
National Library of Australia
+61 6 262 1571
Fax: +61 6 273 4493

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