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Queensland regional festivals – how we are celebrating

Posted on 23 May 2013 by Paul Koerbin

This is a guest post by Maxine Fisher, Digital Content Coordinator (and PANDORA Archive curator) at the State Library of Queensland. Queensland has a great variety of festivals.  Some commemorate significant events from the past or celebrate a unique aspect … Continue reading →

How Fast is the Web Archiving?

Posted on 10 May 2013 by Paul Koerbin

We are often asked how we select content for the PANDORA Archive. Much of the selection process is planned and considered and procedural, but the web is a dynamic and live medium propelled nowadays by social media –  and as web … Continue reading →

What is the oldest website? And will an artefact do?

Posted on 3 May 2013 by Paul Koerbin

To mark the 20th anniversary of the world’s first website CERN (The European Organisation for Nuclear Research) launched a project to restore that first site. More specifically this means, in the first instance, restoring the original URL and the files that … Continue reading →

Archiving the protest site

Posted on 18 January 2013 by Russell Latham

Websites can be thought of as a form of ephemera. That is material that is used for only a short period of time and is important at that time. A particular type of print ephemera is material that has been … Continue reading →

Archiving the history of history on-line

Posted on 4 December 2012 by Caitlin Prescott

In the minds of most people the Internet isn’t associated with history. The Internet is the place most people look for the latest information on what is happening around the world right now. Information on-line would seem to revolve around … Continue reading →

Welcome back to the web jeff.com.au – reviving a ‘lost’ website

Posted on 29 November 2012 by Paul Koerbin

In August I wrote a blog post about a memorable website that we were unable to capture before it disappeared from the web in September 1999 after being online for no more than a month. The website jeff.com.au was notable … Continue reading →

Bali bombing ten years on

Posted on 12 October 2012 by Russell Latham

On the 10 year anniversary of the 2002 Bali bombing we can look back at the material that was collected to record this event in the web archive. Online it was a simpler time in 2002 and four sites only … Continue reading →

Taking the web archive off the virtual shelf – presenting archived websites in a library exhibition

Posted on 11 October 2012 by Paul Koerbin

This is a guest post from Maxine Fisher, Digital Content Coordinator (and PANDORA Archive curator) at the State Library of Queensland. Born digital collections present us with numerous issues and new challenges, but one recent undertaking at State Library of … Continue reading →

Keating redesigned – and the lengths to which web archive curators (sometimes) go!

Posted on 24 September 2012 by Paul Koerbin

Former Prime Minister Paul Keating left office in March 1996 at around the time the original project group for what would become the PANDORA Archive started work. But did Keating have a prime ministerial website that was lost in the … Continue reading →

Out of service? Cablog’s last fare …

Posted on 12 September 2012 by Christopher Turner

Recently, Adrian Neylan, author of Cablog – a blog containing his experience of driving a taxi in Sydney – contacted us, letting us know he was moving on and that the blog was soon to be no more. This stirred … Continue reading →

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