Monthly Archives: March 2005

Workers unite to demand the 6 hour day! As it is next year 150 years since the first eight hour day here in Melbourne, Victoria it seems appropriate that we now demand a 6 hour day!

The increasing importance of the Internet as a publishing and communication medium poses many challenges for the institutional repositories entrusted with the arduous task of preserving and providing access to our digital heritage. But the challenges are not only in terms of creating the technical standards and tools for the preservation of online media, they [...]

Declaration of Independence – Thomas Jefferson (Library of Congress Exhibition)

AMOL – Collection Management

The empyre February 2005 Archive by date There was an excellent forum on the Empyre list about Online Archiving during February with a number of invited guests.

::fibreculture:: [-empyre-]: Paul Koerbin, National Library of Australia – Preserving our online heritage The Library decided to take a selective approach to archiving web resources since this approach was best able to produce results that met the Library’s charter to collect, describe and make available Australia’s documentary heritage.