General Information
PANDAS (PANDORA Digital Archiving System) was
born out of the necessity to streamline systems and processes used to archive
and preserve online Australian publications. PANDAS is designed and built by
the National Library of Australia and was first implemented in June 2001. A
major redevelopment was undertaken following the initial implementation and the
redesigned second version was implemented in August 2002.
- What does PANDAS do? It allows staff from all agencies
participating in PANDORA to:
- create and maintain records for all titles considered for
selection in PANDORA and record decisions made about them;
- create and maintain records for collections of titles;
- create and maintain records for publishers and indexing
agencies;
- search for records using a number of options;
- transfer titles from one agency to another for consideration
or processing;
- initiate archiving of individual titles;
- manage the ongoing archiving of titles with scheduled
gatherings;
- manage the processing of archived titles including
supplementary gathering and editing of archived files;
- log archiving problem reports with automatic notification to
IT staff;
- have access to information regarding gathering of
titles;
- view gathering queues of titles in the process of being
archived and those that have completed archiving;
- automatically create title entry pages without the need to
mark-up;
- automatically update title and subject listings in
PANDORA;
- log on with varying levels of access and privileges, as
determined by PANDORA administrators;
- receive a variety of regular reports;
- create and maintain records for users of the system;
- create and maintain records for agencies using PANDAS.
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