Collaborative Innovation: What is NED? Why are we building NED?  An online service for the deposit, archiving, management, discovery  The impact of digital disruption means need to National edeposit and delivery of published digital material subject to develop capacity to collect and manage the vast amount of - legislation across . digital content. Anna Raunik, State of  An initiative of the nine National, State and Territory Libraries of  There are opportunities with digital to do things differently – we & Australia (NSLA), responding to the major challenge of collecting the can leverage the network to develop a single service, instead digital documentary history of Australia for the future. of separate systems in each jurisdiction. Libby Cass, National Library of Australia  NED will be released early 2019.  To provide a streamlined service for publishers and users. July 2018

How does NED work? Acquire Store Manage Provide NED uses legal deposit Digital publications are stored in Member libraries can enhance Publications are delivered from legislation and a self-service a central repository located in and share about the central repository via a web portal (with an option for the National Library of Australia digital publications, to increase viewer designed to optimise the bulk ingest) to collect and backed-up offsite, under online discoverability. user experience.

strict requirements for data Australian digital publications. Access to digital publications is management and disaster Libraries can curate groups of governed by law and recovery. publications to meet the needs National, State and Territory agreements with publishers.

Libraries have shared of their local communities. responsibility for collecting Member libraries can request Publications can be found publications and for copies of materials published in Files are preserved to ensure through search engines, managing relationships with their jurisdiction to store in their their future usability. discovery services such as , publishers. own repositories. and library catalogues.

Benefits for publishers Benefits for NSLA Libraries Benefits for users  Easy, one-stop online deposit; and option to deposit publications in bulk.  Greater capacity to collect digital publications at scale.  Access to publications collected by all the Libraries – our users  Publishers can deposit once to fulfill their State, Territory and National Library  Shared ongoing development of services and systems. will have access to much more content from across Australia. digital legal deposit responsibilities.  Collective effort to encourage publishers (commercial and non-  Items deposited will be made available quickly to users using  and long-term access to their publications. commercial) to make content as widely and openly available as the metadata provided by publishers during the deposit process.  Increased exposure of content to NED’s wide audience. possible.  More publications openly available.  Public acknowledgement of publisher contributions.  Mutually agreed governance and financial models.  Confidence that content will be safe and available over the  Ability to specify level of public access.  Preserving publications according to best practice. long-term.

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National edeposit is an initiative of National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA)