Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia

Bibliographic description :
GATENBY, Pam. Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia. International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI), January 2000. Text accessible : http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/gatenby.html

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Tiltle : Digital Archiving_ Developing Policy and Best Practice Guidelines at the National Library of Australia.
Creator :GATENBY, Pam
Subject : National Library of Australia, digital archiving, archiving process
Description :This policy statement indicates the directions the National Library of Australia intends to take in preserving its own digital collections, and in collaborating with others to enable the preservation of other digital information resources likely to be of value to NLA users
Publisher : International Council for Scientific and Technical Information (ICSTI)
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Date : 2000-01
Type : Text
Format : HTML
Identifier : http://www.icsti.org/2000workshop/gatenby.html
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Language : En
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"The Library's overall approach to managing the archiving and preservation of digital publications and to providing access to them, takes place within a broader context and is shaped by a number of considerations. One relates to what we consider to be the fundamental roles and responsibilities of a national library and to the inherent principles and beliefs that underpin these. The principles are those espoused by the International Federation of Library Associations and relate to how national libraries collect, control and provide access to their national documentary heritage. The key principles of relevance here, are:

• The role of national libraries should extend to collecting and preserving the digital publishing output of their country

• Legal deposit should be recognized as applying equally to digital publications to ensure their long-term preservation

• National libraries should issue clear statements or policies outlining their collecting intentions for digital publications

• Digital publications selected for archiving should be included in the national bibliography as are print publications

• National libraries should provide long-term access to digital publications and consider models for integrating access with print publications" [extract]