History
The first two titles were downloaded in October 1996. By June 1997 the archive contained 31 titles.
In August 1998 the State Library of Victoria became a participant in adding content. By March 2004 all of the mainland State libraries, the Northern Territory Library, the National Film and Sound Archive, the Australian War Memorial and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies had become participants. The State Library of Tasmania is not participating in PANDORA, but is running its own project called Our Digital Island.
As of February 2008 there were around 17,900 websites/titles within the archive, comprising 2.01 TB of data.
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