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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Maxine Davis [mailto:madavis@nla.gov.au] <br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, 13 September 2010 7:51 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> 'ifla-l@infoserv.inist.fr'<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [IFLA-L] Notice of cessation of PADI gateway and padiforum-l<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Apologies for cross posting<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The PADI subject gateway <a
href="http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/">http<span lang=EL>://</span>www<span
lang=EL>.</span>nla<span lang=EL>.</span>gov<span lang=EL>.</span>au<span
lang=EL>/</span>padi/</a> and associated list padiforum-l <a
href="http://listserver.nla.gov.au/wws/info/padiforum-l">http://listserver.nla.gov.au/wws/info/padiforum-l</a>
were initiated as a service to the digital preservation community and have been
maintained by the National Library of Australia since 1997 in order to
collocate selected information on digital preservation. For background
information see “About PADI”, <a
href="http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/about.html">http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/about.html</a>
.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Currently the gateway includes links to a little over 3000
resources organised by over 60 topics which can be browsed using the topic
listing <a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/thesaurus.html">http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/topics/thesaurus.html</a>
.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>As is to be expected with any portal to Web based documents
maintenance of web links becomes progressively more demanding over time.
Websites are redesigned, migrated to new platforms, URL’s are changed,
projects and their websites cease, so called persistent identifiers are not,
and even when web documents or pages are archived in a web archive, questions
arise as to which version of an archived page to link to (which date or even
which archive as copies may be held in multiple web archives with different
levels of completeness). The current structure of PADI requires the
Library to commit around 0.5 of a fulltime staff member to locate, describe and
enter links to new information sources and to maintain links to existing
resources. Although originally conceived as a cooperative contribution
model, increasingly the burden of adding material to PADI has fallen to the NLA
as input from elsewhere has almost ceased.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>The information-seeking and information-providing mechanisms
of a community also change over time. After reviewing the gateway service
the Library has concluded that the existing website, database and list no
longer meet the current needs and that the Library’s resources are best
invested elsewhere. While there may be more efficient ways of building a service
like PADI today, using Web 2.0 tools, the Library is unable to make the
investment in converting the existing service.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Reluctantly – because we still find PADI useful
ourselves – we believe we cannot sustain PADI, and have decided to cease
maintaining it.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>A copy of the website has been archived in PANDORA,
Australia’s Web Archive <a
href="http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10691">http://pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/10691</a>.
The existing live website will remain available until the end of 2010; however no
new resources have been added since the start of July 2010 and the existing
links will not be actively managed. The archives of the padiforum-l list will
continue to be available , however no new postings will be accepted from 30
September 2010.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Thank you to all who have been interested in and worked on
PADI over the past fourteen years.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Regards<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Maxine Davis<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>PADI Coordinator<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'>Maxine Davis</span></b><span
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:#C0504D'> </span><span
lang=EL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#C0504D'>É</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#C0504D'> Web Archiving & Digital Preservation Branch </span><span
lang=EL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#C0504D'>É</span><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#C0504D'> National Library of Australia, Canberra ACT 2600</span><b><span
lang=EL style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:#C0504D'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:purple'><a href="http://www.nla.gov.au/padi/">http<span lang=EL>://</span>www<span
lang=EL>.</span>nla<span lang=EL>.</span>gov<span lang=EL>.</span>au<span
lang=EL>/</span>padi<span lang=EL>/</span></a></span><span lang=EL
style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:purple'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:8.0pt;font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";
color:purple'>email: <a href="mailto:padi@nla.gov.au">padi@nla.gov.au</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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