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National libraries have been at the forefront of web archiving since the activity commenced in the mid-1990s. This effort is built upon and sustained by their long-term strategic focus, curatorial experience and mandate to collect a nation’s documentary heritage. Nevertheless, their specific legal remit, resources and strategic priorities will affect the objectives and the outcomes of national web archiving programmes. The National Library of Australia’s web archiving programme, being among the earliest established and longest sustained activities, provides a case study on the origin and building of a practical approach to comprehensive national collecting and access.
It’s an impossible task but we started anyway! (Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Director-General of the National Library of Australia, [Easton 2019]).
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Koerbin, P. (2021). National Web Archiving in Australia: Representing the Comprehensive. In: Gomes, D., Demidova, E., Winters, J., Risse, T. (eds) The Past Web. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-63291-5_3
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