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1995 National Preservation Office Conference
Digitisation Projects at the State Library of New South Wales: An Update


This site reproduces the information prepared for a poster session at 2nd National Preservation Office Conference: Multimedia Preservation - Capturing the Rainbow, in Brisbane, Queensland, 28-30 November 1995 by Alan Ventress, State Library of New South Wales.

Materials Being Digitised

The following projects are the main priorities for the digitisation of the Mitchell Library & the Australian Research Collections. However, one project Conrad Martens Life and Art on CD-ROM was completed in March 1995 and a prototype CD-ROM of the papers of Sir Joseph Banks was produced in late 1994.

Project 1: Conversion of analogue video disks to digital format

Project 2: Mitchell Library Small Pictures File (SPF)

Project 3: Mitchell Library Shipping Collections

Project 4: Portraits in the Pictorial Collections

Project 5: Pre-1800 maps showing the exploration and discovery of the Pacific

Project 6: Sub-Division Plans

Number of Images

Number of Images Captured per Day

Equipment Used

Indexes

Intended Use of Images

Preservation of Digital Data

Quality Assurance

Document Preparation

Cost of Banks Papers Project (Including Staff and Equipment)

Source of Funding

Nature of Product

Cost of Product to the Consumer


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Last updated 27 Feburary 1998