Valuable digital records in Parliament's library are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the fire earlier this month.

Valuable digital records in Parliament’s library are likely to have been damaged or destroyed in the fire earlier this month.

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28 January 2022

GroundUp reports this is due to a botched digitisation project which was supposed to create a digital store of Parliament’s archive. The news publication says half of the digital scans are semi-legible or even completely unreadable. This failure was reportedly identified by Parliament’s library staff after the records were scanned in 2017.

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