Pandora Archive

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PANDORA is a web archive of Australian online publications, established initially by the National Library of Australia in 1996, and now built in collaboration with a number of other Australian state libraries and cultural collecting organisations, such as the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, the Australian War Memorial, and the National Film and Sound Archive. The State Library of Tasmania is not participating in PANDORA, but is running its own project called Our Digital Island.

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

PANDORA Archive collects selected Australian web resources, preserves them, and makes them available for long term viewing. Access to the archive is made available to the public via the Pandora web site. Web sites are selected based on their significance and their research value in the long term.

There is no legal deposit provision in the Australian Copyright Act 1968 for digital format publications so that permission is sought from publishers before a web site can be copied to the PANDORA archive.

Archiving software 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.

Similar archives include the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine, the National Library of Canada's Electronic Collection, the Library of Congress' MINERVA, and the eprint archives at Australian universities.

[edit] History

The first two titles were downloaded in October 1996. By June 1997 the Archive contained 31 titles.

In August 1998 the State Library of Victoria joined the National Library. By March 2004 all of the mainland State libraries, the Northern Territory Library, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies had become participants.

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