This paper will identify and discuss a range of opportunities for collaboration that are available to institutions which are developing, managing and providing access to significant digital...
Single Business Discovery Project (2009)
A paper presented by Dr Warwick Cathro to the Libraries Australia Advisory Committee. This paper provides extracts from the latest draft of the Project Initiation Document. It clarifies the scope of...
The National Library of Australia has developed an architecture for the management, discovery and delivery of its digital collections, embracing both digitised and born-digital information resources....
Digital Libraries: a National Library Perspective [Conference Paper] (2009)
A digital library, like any library, is a service which is based on principles of selection, acquisition, access, management and preservation, related to a specific client community. This paper...
Preserving the Outputs of Research [Conference Paper] (2009)
Short report This paper is concerned with the challenge of preserving the outputs of research. Research is undertaken in many contexts. It is undertaken largely by our universities, but also by...
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...
It is easy for institutions to overlook the implications of the fact that their network space is shared. Institutions tend not to focus on the fact that "their" clients are actually the users of many...
Libraries and archival institutions are encountering unprecedented pressures for change, arising largely from the emergence of the World Wide Web. This paper discusses those challenges in the...
Judith Pearce, Warwick Cathro, Tony Boston
In this paper we discuss the role of the OPAC as a hybrid library service and of the catalogue server as a provider element in a hybrid information environment. We identify developments required in...
There is currently a lively debate about the role of the library catalogue and its relationship to other resource discovery tools. An example of this debate is the recent publication of a report...
In Australia, the National Library is collaborating with the higher education sector as part of a national program to improve the nation’s research information infrastructure. These activities have...
Transforming access to Australia’s documentary history (2009)
In the 2007 Ferguson Memorial Lecture by invitation of the Royal Australian Historical Society, Warwick Cathro describes how the National Library of Australia is honouring its debt to Sir John...
Federated discovery opportunities for Australia’s collecting institutions (2009)
This paper is about the possibilities for collaboration among the different sectors that constitute Australia’s collecting institutions: collaboration, in other words, among our archives,...
Digitisation in Australasia (2009)
This article surveys progress made by the libraries of Australia and New Zealand in planning and implementing major digitization projects. These projects exist within a wider context of the building...
Paper given by Dr. Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Services to Libraries Division at the Standards Australia Seminar, "Matching Discovery and Recovery" August 1997
The Dublin Core: simplicity or complexity? (2009)
Paper given by Dr. Warwick Cathro, Assistant Director-General, Services to Libraries Division at the ALIA Seminar on Metadata, Sydney, 30 July 1997
What is the future for networking and the Internet in Australia and the region? (2009)
Warwick Cathro, Matthew Ciolek
The purpose of this paper as well as the related constellation of networked documents is to provide an overview of materials dealing with the trends and likely future developments in the...
Distributed National Collection (2009)
My aim in this segment of the Seminar is to establish a context for the discussion of interlending and document delivery issues. I have been asked to speak about the 'Distributed National...
Warwick Cathro, Matthew Ciolek
The purpose of this paper as well as the related constellation of networked documents is to provide an overview of materials dealing with the trends and likely future developments in the...
Single Business Discovery Project (2008)
The National Library of Australia has an intention to integrate its individual discovery services into a single discovery service for the public by undertaking a “Single Business Discovery...
Audio of presentation given at the APSR event Clever Collections: A National Showcase of Technical Innovations for Digital Collections.
The Role of a National Library in Supporting (2006)
Warwick Cathro, Warwick Cathro
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