“But our real priority was to free ourselves from some of the current technical constraints, which will enable us to look at what services are needed for end users.” “As far as we are aware of, there is nobody else providing a keyword search to so much archived content,” she said. The fact that index is easily keyword searchable – in a way the Wayback Machine is not – remains a point of pride in an effort that, NLA assistant director general Alison Dellit told Information Age, “was a key thing” as 90 per cent of the site’s use relates to digitised or born-digital content. Its more than 6.5 billion records – accumulated through partnerships with nearly 1,000 libraries, museums, galleries, media, government and community organisations – also include an extensive index of Australian Web sites, which have been archived in a smaller, localised version of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine. Trove debuted in 2008 to provide online access to historical information ranging from photographs and scanned documents to historical family records, 231m magazine articles, and newspapers dating back to 1803. At a time when most people are staying away from public institutions such as museums, dramatically improved access to Australia’s online national archives seems like a no-brainer – but the relaunch of the National Library of Australia (NLA) Trove archive was a long time coming.
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