Douglas Elford, Nicholas Del Pozo, Snezana Mihajlovic, David Pearson, Gerard Clifton, Colin Webb
An article by Douglas Elford, Nicholas Del Pozo, Snezana Mihajlovic, David Pearson, Gerard Clifton and Colin Webb. The paper outlines the development of an open source software application for...
Defining File Format Obsolescence: A Risky Journey (2009)
An article by David Pearson and Colin Webb. This paper talks about the nature of file format obsolescence and a series of prototype questions designed by the National Library as a benchmark to help...
Defining File Format Obsolescence: a risky journey (2009)
A paper given by David Pearson and presented at the National Archives of Australia Data Stewardship Programme (30 April & 27 May 2008). This paper talks about a series of prototype questions designed...
Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-1845 – an update [Conference Paper] (2009)
This paper was prepared for the ALIA Rare Books and Special Collections Special Interest Group 1999 Conference which was held at the Conference Room, University of Queensland Library, St.Lucia,...
The purpose of this report is to provide information that will help the IFLA-CDNL Alliance for Bibliographic Standards (ICABS) to understand the availability of useful guidance for those wishing to...
Short report Considering that the disappearance of heritage in whatever form constitutes an impoverishment of the heritage of all nations, … Recognising that … resources of information and...
Short report The National Library of Australia (NLA), one of several institutions that have set up digital archiving programs, would probably report that an organization having the will and need to...
Saving Digital Heritage - A UNESCO Campaign [Journal Article] (2009)
Short report Considering that the disappearance of heritage in whatever form constitutes an impoverishment of the heritage of all nations … Recognising that … resources of information and...
Digital Preservation: a Many Layered Thing [Conference Paper] (2009)
The National Library of Australia (NLA) has made a substantial contribution to digital preservation practice, research, and thinking. In 1995, it established one of the world's first library digital...
Hilary Berthon, Susan Thomas, Colin Webb
In May 2001 a project commenced that aimed to build a distributed and permanent collection of digital resources from the field of digital preservation. All resources incorporated in this...
Digital Continuity: Preservation Action [Conference Presentation] (2009)
I want to talk about some of the issues associated with long-term access to the kind of digital information that might be included in the archiving arrangements discussed so far. I don’t intend...
Archiving the Web: The PANDORA Archive at the National Library Australia [Conference Paper] (2009)
Warwick Cathro, Colin Webb, Julie Whiting
The National Library of Australia maintains PANDORA, an archive of selected, significant Australian web sites and web-based online publications. The purpose of PANDORA is to ensure that Australians...
The National Library of Australia's Digital Preservation Agenda [Interview] (2009)
We are pleased to present you the second Editors' Interview, a new occasional feature to RLG DigiNews that we introduced in August 2000. Our interviewee is Colin Webb, Director of Preservation, from...
Recently I received an email from a friend with a new signature block: "If you intend to live forever, so far, so good," it said. The more I thought about it, the more appropriate it seemed to the...
As a senior preservation manager involved in digital preservation, I'm often asked whether I think digital technology will be a good thing or a bad thing for preservation.I am most interested in the...
Limitations and pitfalls of digitisation [Conference Speech] (2009)
I'd like to talk about some of the potential problems with digitisation in three areas: from an access perspectivefrom a preservation perspectivefrom the perspective of managing the digitisation...
The role of preservation and the library of the future [Conference Paper] (2009)
Preservation is part of the core business of those libraries that seek to maintain their collections for ongoing use. Digital technology and increasing collaboration between libraries are likely to...
A National Cellulose Acetate Search? [Conference Paper] (2009)
Angeletta Leggio, Hilary Berthon, Colin Webb
So this is where we are – looking at the options and trying to work out what is going to work for us, knowing that we’re going to have to go begging for resources to implement it. And at this...
Digital publications are a significant part of tomorrow’s heritage of digital information. However, there is a growing understanding that tomorrow’s digital heritage will simply not be available...
The Ferguson Project: A Hybrid Approach to Reformatting Rare Australiana (2009)
Paper written by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation and presented by Margaret Dent at the ALIA Rare Books and Special Materials SIG meeting in Sydney, 3 October 1996.
The National Library of Australia has embarked on a program of digital conversion of its large and important Oral History collections. The Library has been using and investigating digital recording...
Future Directions in Access and Preservation Technologies and New Electronic Formats (2009)
The purpose of this paper is to address Policy Statement 6 of the National Conservation and Preservation Policy for Movable Cultural Heritage: The Commonwealth, State, Territory and Local Governments...
Migration Trials: Migrating publications on floppy disk to CD-R (2009)
The collections of the National Library of Australia contain many publications on computer disks which require innovative preservation responses. Unless they are managed carefully, media instability...
The National Library of Australia has been collecting Australian electronic publications in physical formats for some 15 years - the first floppy disks entered the collections in about 1983. There...
Safeguarding the oral heritage in Australia (2009)
Paper by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation. This article was published in IFLA's International Preservation News number 14 in May 1997
Preserving Oral History Recordings (2009)
Like many national, regional and research libraries, the National Library of Australia (NLA) is actively facing a wide range of challenges associated with using digital technology to improve access...
Preservation of electronic information: what we should be thinking about now (2009)
A paper presented by Colin Webb, Manager, Information Preservation, National Library of Australia, as a keynote address to the 9th Annual Symposium on Preservation, National Diet Library, Japan 24...
Guidelines for Digital Imaging [Conference Speech] (2009)
I am going to bring together some significant aspects of our experience in Australia with some of the messages I have heard over the past couple of days. I will be reflecting on why I like what I...
Transfer from Analog to Digital: Selecting a System (2009)
Let me start by saying that for a place like the National Library of Australia the major shift from analogue to digital is probably in managing digital information, rather than reformatting our...
Living without air conditioning is the normal state for many collections, but when building design takes air conditioning for granted and the system fails, a disaster management approach may be...
WAY06728 Pedagogy, Innovation and e-Learning in Primary Schools (2008)
Over 400 e-learning grant applications from Australian primary schools were analysed to determine the nature of the proposed ICT-based projects in Literacy and Numeracy. Three key dimensions emerged...
English Or. English, Brian Wixted, Norihiko Yamano, Colin Webb, Brian Wixted, Norihiko Yamano, ...
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Defining File Format Obsolescence: A Risky Journey (2008)
File format obsolescence is a major risk factor threatening the ongoing usefulness of digital information collections. While the preservation community has become increasingly interested in tools for...
Defining File Format Obsolescence: A Risky Journey (2008)
File format obsolescence is a major risk factor threatening the ongoing usefulness of digital information collections. While the preservation community has become increasingly interested in tools for...
Evaluation of Recycle Grinding Performance in Flour Milling (2007)
A typical flour milling process is a very linear operation that is almost entirely void of recycled streams where separate fractions from each operation go ahead as new streams to the next operation....
Brian Lavoie, Robin Dale, Michael Alexander, Oya Rieger, Kevin Bradley, Derek Sergeant, ...
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This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research...
This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues ofthe Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative projectfunded by the Australian Research...
This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research...
This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research...
This article will discuss and evaluate the management and production issues of the Australian Cooperative Digitisation Project 1840-45 - a collaborative project funded by the Australian Research...
OECD's indicators of international trade and competitiveness
Martine Durand, Jacques Simon, Colin Webb
This paper presents the methodology adopted by the Economics Department to calculate indices of effective exchange rates and indicators of competitiveness, based on unit labour costs and export unit...
The OECD REGPAT Database: A Presentation
Stéphane Maraut, Hélène Dernis, Colin Webb, Vincenzo Spiezia, Dominique Guellec
The OECD REGPAT database presents patent data that have been linked to regions according to the addresses of the applicants and inventors. The data have been 'regionalised' at a very detailed level...
Les indicateurs de compétitivité et de commerce internationaux de l'OCDE
Martine Durand, Jacques Simon, Colin Webb
Cet article expose la méthodologie générale adoptée par le Département des Affaires Économiques pour calculer des indicateurs de compétitivité, basés sur des coûts unitaires de...
OECD's Indicators of International Trade and Competitiveness
Martine Durand, Jacques Simon, Colin Webb
This paper presents the methodology adopted by the Economics Department to calculate indices of effective exchange rates and indicators of competitiveness, based on unit labour costs and export unit...
Analysing European and International Patent Citations: A Set of EPO Patent Database Building Blocks
Colin Webb, Hélène Dernis, Dietmar Harhoff, Karin Hoisl
This paper presents a preliminary set of European and international citation data tables designed to enable researchers to become familiar with the subject and undertake a range of analyses. It...
The Changing Nature of Manufacturing in OECD Economies
Dirk Pilat, Agnès Cimper, Karsten Bjerring Olsen, Colin Webb
This paper provides empirical evidence on the changing nature of manufacturing in OECD countries, including the continued loss of employment in the manufacturing. It examines the extent to which...
Brian Wixted, Norihiko Yamano, Colin Webb
Input-output (I-O) analysis has been around for nearly 70 years, and although its use has ebbed and flowed over the years, it has always retained a dedicated core of users in the worldwide research...
Towards Harmonised Bilateral Trade Data for Inter-Country Input-Output Analyses: Statistical Issues
Dong Gou, Colin Webb, Norihiko Yamano
Understanding the increasingly complex structures of international trade is an important concern for policy makers, as deepening economic integration is characterised by the growing trade in...
Les indicateurs de compétitivité et de commerce internationaux de l'OCDE
Martine Durand, Jacques Simon, Colin Webb
Cet article expose la méthodologie générale adoptée par le Département des Affaires Économiques pour calculer des indicateurs de compétitivité, basés sur des coûts unitaires de...