Digital Hansard presentation 8 June 2011

Bernie Harris, Kathryn York and Roxanne Missingham gave a presentation on a cold winters night to an audience of enthusiastic librarians at the National Library. They reported on an over 12 month project which has delivered access to over 600,000 pages of Hansard, enabling the community to have online access to the complete Hansard for the federal parliament. Hansard is now fully accessible in facsimile as PFDs and searchable through conversion to XML. Bernie described some fabulous stories of Hansard and its making including controversial proceedings and changes in speech making by members of parliament over the years. The slides include a link to Bernie’s Whispers in the corridor history, a speech by Arthur Calwell and Question time videos.

Powerpoint presentation