Defining a business model for the digital age at the National Archives of Australia

Comma ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 (2) ◽  
pp. 15-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Fricker
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
National Archives ◽  
National Archives Of Australia

scholarly journals Reimagining the Archival Control Model of the National Archives of Australia for the Digital Age

2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-105
Author(s):  
Carey Garvie
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Environmental Sustainability ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Control Model ◽  
Environmentally Sustainable ◽  
University Of Houston ◽  
National Archives ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
The University

The University of Houston Libraries previously had no data surrounding the environmental sustainability of its digital preservation program. We set out to gather this data and package it in a way that can be communicated easily to stakeholders such as Libraries administration. Additionally, we explore ways that the digital preservation program could become more environmentally sustainable in the future, and we provide actionable recommendations that other digital preservationists can quickly and easily implement to reduce the carbon footprint of their organization's digital preservation program.

Pioneering flying: The vision and the failure of Australasian Aerial Transport, 1919–20

2018 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-109
Author(s):  
Arun Chandu
Keyword(s):  
World War I ◽  
World War ◽  
Commercial Aviation ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Commercial Flight ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
Aerial Transport

The early post-World War I period saw a dramatic increase in aviation activity in Australia. Using material from the National Archives of Australia, and from newspapers and journals, the development and significance of Australasian Aerial Transport is documented in the context of early post-World War I era progress of commercial aviation in Australia. Australasian Aerial Transport was one of these nascent aviation ventures and was the first in Australia to have planned scheduled passenger air services between the country’s major cities. This paper notes the visionary and speculative elements of Australasian Aerial Transport. The company never actually operated a single commercial flight, but the value of that experience is great and has been poorly documented.

scholarly journals From DP Camps to the “Green Continent”

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexey Antoshin
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Historical Memory ◽  
Displaced Persons ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
New Information ◽  
National Archives ◽  
National University ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
The Government

This review focuses on a monograph written by Jayne Persian, lecturer at the University of Southern Queensland (Australia). The work is the first complex study devoted to the adaptation of former “displaced persons” (more particularly, émigrés from the Soviet Union) in Australia between the 1940s and 1960s. The work refers to an extensive complex of documents from the National Archives of Australia, the National Archives (United Kingdom), the Noel Butlin Archives Centre, Australian National University, and interviews with former “displaced persons” residing in Australia. The study is very important because it provides new information on the second wave of Soviet emigration, which is seldom examined by contemporary Russian scholars. Persian demonstrates that political factors played an important role in how the Australian government granted immigration permission. Quite frequently, Australia preferred people who shared anti-communist positions. Therefore, many former collaborators of the World War II era came to Australia; this hindered cooperation between the USSR and Australia. Persian shows that “new Australians” had difficulty integrating into society. The government tried to assimilate them, which pushed the immigrants to seek isolation in their communities. This book helps us understand the controversial character of the state policy of historical memory, a problem that is also very important for contemporary Russia.

scholarly journals Transformations and Mutations of the Chinese Language Publishing Field in the Digital Age

MANUSYA ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 92-112
Author(s):  
Yu-Ching Lee
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Cultural Production ◽  
Value Chain ◽  
Publishing Industry ◽  
Transition Period ◽  
Chinese Language ◽  
Digital Age ◽  
Digital Publishing ◽  
Reading Habits ◽  
The West

In the traditional publishing arena, the publishing fields around the world all operate according to a fixed value chain system, which has been in operation ever since the existence of the publishing industry over 500 years. Now the publishing industry is going through a transition period toward digitization, which has overwhelmed not only the entire system but the entire publishing field. In this digital age, publishing houses in the West have carried on with their conventional model of value chains and have established a comprehensive digital publishing system. But in Chinesespeaking regions, due to factors such as market traits, consumer reading habits, publishing policies and consumption habits which are vastly different from those in the West, the Western system of digital publishing is not applicable. This study analyzes the Chinese language publishing field by interviewing Cross- Straits publishing experts. The aim is to examine the differences between the publishing structure of Chinese-speaking regions (specifically mainland China and Taiwan), the typical publishing field in the West, and the traditional paper-based publishing field which has existed for hundreds of years. The result shows that Taiwan follows the Western e-publishing model. However, because of the differences in market size and reading habits, the e-publishing model is not applicable in Taiwan. China, on the other hand, has developed its own system called “Internet Literature” in accordance with readers’ reading preferences and habits. Moreover, this model uses the intellectual property to extend the value of publications by transforming literature texts into other forms of cultural production. This publishing business model is carried out by big Internet companies such as Tencent, Baidu, rather than by publishers. These mutations of Internet literature content have really challenged the Chinese state-regulated publishing system, and have become the foundations of a successful business model. This development in China has challenged the conventional definition of publishing, as literature has been a symbol of highbrow civilization whereas Internet Literature is more a symbol of uncultured entertainment.

Sport and Defection From Romania During the Cold War

2020 ◽  
pp. 019372352097357
Author(s):  
Simona Petracovschi ◽  
Jessica W. Chin
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
National Council ◽  
Communist State ◽  
Risk Seeking ◽  
National Archives ◽  
National Archives Of Australia ◽  
Travel Abroad ◽  
The Cold War

During the Cold War in Eastern Europe, sport and politics became increasingly intertwined and complicated as the communist states, which strictly controlled the movement of its athletes, allowed athletes to travel abroad for competition, consequently opening opportunities for defection. In search of a better life, many athletes knowingly put themselves and their families at great risk, seeking opportunities to defect to other countries once outside their national borders. The purpose of this study is to analyze how the communist state in Romania acted to stop the defection of athletes from Romania, focusing on two defection situations which occurred at different points during the Cold War, one in 1956 and the second in 1981. Historical data for this study were retrieved from the National Council for the Study of Securitate Archives (CNSAS) in Romania, the archives at the Lausanne Olympic Museum in Switzerland, and the online archives from the National Archives of Australia (NAA).

Archival Digital Preservation Programs: Staffing, Costs, and Policy

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (3) ◽  
pp. 137-149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shelby Sanett
Keyword(s):  
Management Practices ◽  
Research Study ◽  
Longitudinal Research ◽  
Digital Preservation ◽  
The Third ◽  
National Archives ◽  
Core Areas ◽  
National Archives Of Australia

AbstractA three-part longitudinal research study- conducted from 1999-2007-gathered information on management practices in national archives that were developing digital preservation programs. In the first two rounds, data was collected from surveys and interviews. The third round was an in-depth case study conducted at the National Archives of Australia (Sanett 2008). Three core areas of practice in the emerging digital preservation programs were selected for further exploration after the first round: staffing, costs, and policy. Generally, the data indicated that these three areas remained underdeveloped in archival digital preservation programs. This article discusses results of the study and is an overview of what has changed in these areas since the study ended in 2007.

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