The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) will receive an additional $41.9 million in Federal Government funding over four years to digitise the nation’s at-risk audiovisual heritage, held across eight National Collecting Institutions (NCIs).
The significant announcement, made today in Canberra by The Hon Josh Frydenberg MP, Treasurer, The Hon Paul Fletcher MP, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts, and Senator The Hon Zed Seselja, Minister for International Development and the Pacific, allows the NFSA to double its current video and audio digitisation efforts, ensuring critical moments in our nation’s memory are preserved for generations to come.
The funding announcement supports:
- Digitising approximately 240,000 at-risk audio, video and film items, held by the NFSA and seven other NCIs, before they deteriorate irretrievably.
- Safeguarding at-risk First Nations audiovisual collections.
- Increasing existing digitisation efforts across film, audio and video.
- Significantly expanding our digital storage capacity from 6 Petabytes to 165 Petabytes over four years.
- Boosting storage and cybersecurity, to protect vulnerable systems from cyber-attack.
- Creating an off-site data centre to provide improved security and a world leading disaster recovery capability.
- The ongoing digital preservation of newly digitised material for each participating institution.
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