[Air-L] archiving virtual worlds for social science

[Suzana Sukovic]

Pandora: Australia's web archive
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/selectionguidelinesallpartners.html

PANDORA is a selective archive. The National Library and its partners do 
not attempt to collect all Australian online publications and web sites, 
but select those that they consider are of significance and to have 
long-term research value.
Some national libraries, such as Australia and Canada, have established 
selective archives, and some, such as Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland and 
Austria, endeavour to take periodic snapshots of their countries' entire 
web domains. There are advantages and disadvantages to both approaches. The 
ideal situation would, perhaps, be a selective archive supplemented by 
periodic snapshots of the entire domain. For a discussion of the advantages 
and disadvantages of both approaches see Sections 3-5 (pages 10-12) of 
<http://pandora.nla.gov.au//bsc49.doc>Collecting Australian Online 
Publications.
Collecting Australian Online Publications outlines some approaches to 
archiving online documents. Pandora doesn't collect games.

Suzana

Suzana Sukovic
PhD Candidate
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Information & Knowledge Management
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney

PO Box 123
Broadway NSW 2007, Australia
www.hss.uts.edu.au/research/research_students/suzana_sukovic.html