The Pandora Project
The Pandora Project is a project by the National Library of Australia to preserve and catalog online publications. This home page is to be included in the project. Here is the letter I received explaining how the project works.
Dear Mr Wynne
The issue of long term access to online publications is creating interest among librarians around the world. The National Library of Australia aims to retain in perpetuity a copy of all titles published in Australia in printed form in order to ensure that Australians will have access to the accumulated knowledge, activities and achievements of its citizens in all forms of human endeavour. In line with the objective, the Library is also committed to preserving selected electronic publications of lasting cultural value for access by the Australian community now and in the future.
For some months, we have been assessing online electronic materials and identifying those that we consider have national significance. We have set up a project named PANDORA (Preserving and Accessing Networked Documentary Resources of Australia) to develop and implement procedures for managing the archiving and provision of long term access to online Australian publications.
We realise that this needs to be done in cooperation with publishers and authors. With your permission, we would like to include the title, Warrick Wynne's Poetry Pages, in the Project. I would be grateful if you would let me know whether you are willing to assist us to achieve the goal of an online archive of Australian electronic publications. If you would like additional information about the Project, you may wish to visit the PANDORA site on the Library's server: http://www.nla.gov.au/pandora/
Regardless of whether you decide to have your publication archived by the National Library, you may be interested in the new PURL Resolver Service that we are now offering. PURLs assist in the provision of continued access to Internet publications and allow you to manage access to your World Wide Web documents as they are moved on your system. When a document's location is changed, anyone pointing to your document's PURL will always find it, provided you maintain the PURL by changing the associated URL. We encourage Internet publishers to make use of this free service. More information about the service is available on the Library's server at: http://purl.nla.gov.au/
Yours sincerely
Fiona Ash Relf
