> 2. Deborah Woodyard pointed out Pandora at the Australian National
> Library. A fascinating effort that I had indeed missed ...
>
> A question Deborah if I may: How many people are employed in that
> project, what is its budget, and is there a measure of volume - i.e. pages
> saved per day or something? If this is all on the site somewhere, feel
> free to kick me in the right direction...
>
PANDORA is a regular part of the NLA's work and therefore does not have a
separately allocated budget so I can't give you a figure on that. We have a
section called the Electronic Unit which consists of 5 staff who select,
negotiate with publishers, collect and catalogue the online publications for
PANDORA, plus support from staff in the IT area and other staff involved
with issues such as developing preservation solutions.

Archiving in PANDORA started around 1997 and there are now roughly 700
titles, about a third of which we regularly revisit and capture new versions
of. The process of archiving a "snapshot" of a title, which includes quality
checking, varies enormously. From 15-20 minutes for a simple text document,
to a number of days for a complex web site.

Check it out at http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pandora/ . It really is impressive
when you understand what is involved (even if I do say so myself!).


> 5. Henry Gladney replied .... His reccommendation to just print out
> whatever we want to save still seems to be the only really sensible answer
> - and one that we have been doing - even if one does miss much of the
> "experience" once it is printed.
>
There are days when it all looks too hard and I feel like saying "just print
it" too, but I disagree it is the only sensible answer. And there are lots
of people working on it...

Another discussion list which deals with these and other digital
preservation issues is padiforum-l, details available from
http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/forum/

Regards,
Deborah

Deborah Woodyard
Digital Preservation / PADI
National Library of Australia
Canberra ACT 2600
AUSTRALIA
mailto:dwoodyar@...
ph: +61 2 6262 1366
PADI: http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/

The opinions expressed are my own, not necessarily those of my employer.


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