Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: Identifying Key Elements in the NLA .Au Domain Harvest (National Library of Australia ‪)‬

Australia established one of the world's first web archiving programs when it introduced PANDORA in 1996. PANDORA has been very successful in its aim of involving a range of institutions around the country in identifying specific Australian web sites for retention and capture. The PANDORA archiving procedure entails going through the relatively complex business of obtaining permissions to capture the site, followed by the actual archiving process itself using the PANDAS software. This has resulted in a well-constructed publicly available archive of over 1.7 TB of data comprising over 32 000 archived sites as at September 2007. (1) However, as was acknowledged by many of the participants in the PANDORA project, there are concerns regarding the small numbers of sites actually being acquired through this process. (2) SELECTING WEB SITES FOR ARCHIVING