The Major Threat is Economic

I've frequently said that the major threat to digital preservation is economic; back in 2013 I posted The Major Threat is Economic. We are reminded of this by the announcement last March that:

The future of the Trove online database is in doubt due to funding cuts to the National Library of Australia.

Trove is the National Library's system:

In 2014, the database's fifth year, an estimated 70,000 people were using the website each day.

Australia Library and Information Association chief executive Sue McKarracher said Trove was a visionary move by the library and had turned into a world-class resource.
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"If you look at things like the digital public libraries in the United States, really a lot of that came from looking at our Trove and seeing what a nation could do investing in a platform that would hold museum, gallery and library archives collections and make them accessible to the world."