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July 4, 2016 04:00 am
Original Link: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/LGf-2Yj8Pls/the-fight-to-save-the-australian-digital-archive-trove
The Fight To Save the Australian Digital Archive Trove
Slashdot reader sandbagger writes: A digital archive and research tool developed by the Australian National Archives may be the victim of upcoming budget cuts. Used by an estimated 70,000 users per day, the system may be eliminated thanks to a $20 Million (AUD) budget cut to the agency's budget. Since its 2009 launch, Trove has grown to house four million digitised items, including books, images, music, historic newspapers and maps. Critics of the cuts say that such systems should be considered national infrastructure because there's literally no replacement service.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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