PANDAS Manual

General Information

• PANDAS (PANDORA Digital Archiving System) was developed as a web-based management system to facilitate the processes involved in the archiving and preservation of online Australia 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:

1. Create and maintain records for all titles considered for selection in PANDORA and record decisions made about them;
2. Create and maintain records for collections of titles;
3. Create and maintain records for publishers and indexing agencies;
4. Search for records using a number of options;
5. Transfer titles from one agency to another for consideration or processing;
6. Initiate archiving of individual titles;
7. Manage the ongoing archiving of titles with scheduled gatherings;
8. Manage the processing of archived titles including supplementary gathering and editing of archived files;
9. Log archiving problem reports with automatic notification to IT staff;
10. Have access to information regarding gathering of titles;
11. View gathering queues of titles in the process of being archived and those that have completed archiving;
12. Automatically create title entry pages without the need to mark-up;
13. Automatically update title and subject listings in PANDORA;
14. Log on with varying levels of access and privileges, as determined by PANDORA administrators;
15. Receive a range of regular reports;
16. Create and maintain records for users of the system;
17. Create and maintain records for agencies using PANDAS.

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Last updated 18 February 2003