Mind the Shift : Library and Archives Canada - digital strategy

The two organizations came together in and the lightning speed at which people create 2004 to form Library and Archives Canada, a true and expect to find information have challenged success story for the institution and the country. [...] The challenge LAC faces with moving forward, as the Librarian and Archivist of Canada stated in The Digital Strategy is LAC’s roadmap to the 2014, “is to raise the Nautilus to the surface and future. [...] LAC will truly be a trusted ready online access to Canada’s and international networks to digital repository with a robust rich and vast documentary heritage, ensure we stay abreast of platform for digital curation, that is, our holdings and those innovation and new developments. [...] COLLABORATE Collaborate with partners to ensure LAC policies and processes are aligned with existing or planned digital acquisition of partner content Engage with Government of Canada institutions to prepare for the transfer of digital assets to LAC INNOVATE Create an acquisition and a preservation strategy for documentary heritage Pilot web archiving across the Government of Canada and with partn [...] The descriptions are also an important component of the KEY ACTIVITIES Government of Canada Open Data agenda, which allows the discovery and management OPERATE of the datasets and improves their ability to Develop digital descriptions for all holdings, link with other datasets or metadata sets.