Australia's Public Broadcaster (ABC) to Open Access to Digital Archives
From ITnews.com.au:
The ABC and Education Services Australia have garnered a $20 million project to digitise the public broadcaster’s archives for a new education portal the Federal Government hopes will promote use of the National Broadband Network.
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It would be specifically targeted at primary schools and linked to the school curriculum, allowing teachers to use the portal as a resource.
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The ABC has taken on digitisation of its television, radio and other archives at various times to mixed reactions from communities. Its attempt to digitise 70 years’ worth of radio archives in 2001 was opposed by librarians and other communities amid fears the new format would lose data.
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About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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