Reading Room and Tridion bring History of Australia Online
01/12/2007 - Canberra
Developed by Reading Room, the award-winning digital communications agency, using Tridion technology, the redeveloped National Archives of Australia (NAA) website will give the Australian public online access to fascinating records on the history of Australia for the first time
"The main objective of the redevelopment was to implement a content management system to improve the ability of NAA to publish to and maintain the website," said Tom Voirol, Managing Director, Reading Room Australia.
"When Reading Room was appointed in March 2006, the NAA website was six years old, contained 13,000 pages and was completely maintained in Dreamweaver. The redevelopment involved converting the 13,000 pages into XML based Tridion and publishing out to the website".
NAA selected Reading Room as their development partner from a competitive open tender process. Reading Room managed the technical development of the content management system, the conversion of static pages to XML and the integration of the front-end designs. Reading Room also ensured that the website was AA compliant.
"Reading Room submitted the best tender response that most closely met the National Archives of Australia's requirements. They clearly understood that the Archives delivers 93 per cent of its access online and recommended Tridion Content Management System as the most suitable system to meet our needs," said Brad Headland, Website Manager, National Archives of Australia.
"The Tridion product provides complete web content management and content delivery capabilities, focusing on ease-of-use for all content contributors, site managers and power users, " said Mr Voirol.
The next phase of the NAA website will be to implement Tridion's Content Broker feature with the objective to enrich the front-end of the site further.
The National Archives of Australia (NAA) officially launched its redeveloped website today in Canberra.
Visit the National Archives of Australia website at www.naa.gov.au
