Nominal Roll Websites

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Nominal Roll Websites Department of Veterans
Affairs E-Government Initiative Helen
Devlin A/g Branch Head, Defence Links Deborah
Rollings Director, Nominal Rolls
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• Overview
• Background
• The WW2 Nominal Roll website
• Learnings
• More Nominal Rolls
• Questions

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• Background
• DVA has been publishing nominal rolls in
  paperback since 1987
• Nominal Rolls are produced from data sourced for
  various health studies
• All current nominal rolls are conflict specific

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• WW2 Nominal Roll site
• WW2 nominal roll website first published in 2002
• Budget funded project costing more than 4
  million
• Features more than 1 million records
• 25 million page views on the site since 2002
• The site still attracts on average 16 000 views
  per day

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• Features of the WW2 Nominal Roll
• Contains service specific details for individual
  veterans
• Lists 15 fields of information including honours,
  awards and Prisoner-of-War status
• Provides veterans with the ability to print a
  commemorative record

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• Learnings from WW2 nominal roll site
• Age is no barrier!
• Veterans take nominal rolls very seriously
• Veterans have high expectations about the content
• Veterans actively use the site and provide
  feedback via the 1300 number or email links
• Veterans will regularly write to the Minister and
  the Secretary to share their concerns about the
  site

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• Latest Nominal Roll site - Korea
• 17,000 records compared to 1,000,000 allows for
  improved search functionality
• Links directly to Australian War Memorial
  database allowing access to photos, documents and
  the Roll of Honour
• Targeted and accountable feedback mechanisms
• User friendly

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• The Nominal Rolls we dont have...
• British Commonwealth Occupation Forces, Japan
• Malaya
• Borneo
• Vietnam
• Peacekeepers
• Still more than 160,000 physical records to data
  collect

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• Into the future
• Its all about the data
• Future rolls might be veteran specific
• Enhanced links between National Archives and
  Australian War Memorial sites
• Better manipulation
• Enhanced data fields
• Using the site to support veterans

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