The Collections Council is pleased to note that the Government plans to support the development of a business case for a major infrastructure project that would enable the National Archives of Australia, the National Film and Sound Archive and the National Library of Australia to collaborate on digitising their existing collections. The business case will be an important step (required by government process) towards more substantial funding – hopefully in 2010-2011 – and addresses, in part, Recommendation 7 in the Collections Council's Budget submission. (Click HERE to access that submission.)

Implementation of the collaborative project would help address the message from the Australia 2020 Summit concerning digitisation of the nation’s collections, and might enable flow-on benefits to the wider collections sector.