Datacenter Dynamics

Australian film archive to receive funds for digitization efforts and backup data center

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) is to receive an additional AU$41.9 million (US$29.5m) in Federal Government funding to save at-risk audiovisual heritage and build a new backup ...
The Conversation

Access to documents about Australia’s political history is fraught and inadequate. It needs to change

Dr Joshua Black holds a Palace Letters Fellowship with the Whitlam Institute at Western Sydney University. Daniel Casey does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...
ZDNet

Australia's audio-visual archive gets AU$42m from Canberra to preserve at-risk collection

The Australian government said it will hand more than AU$47 million to digitise and preserve at risk archive material held by the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA), and seven other national ...
SBS

'National Archives of Australia: a treasure trove with Dutch-Australian records'

Did you know that the National Archives of Australia have a rich collection of Dutch-Australian records? Jessie Webb works for the national archives in Canberra, and provided an online seminar ...
Crikey

Every election, Australia archives campaign materials. Why don’t we save social media posts?

Australia’s official record of the 2025 federal election will not include one of the most important parts of the campaign: social media. After each election, the National Library of Australia (NLA) ...