| Project participants: |
State
Library of Victoria with the Victorian Rural Water Commission, who donated
their photographic collection. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Jill Wilson, Manager Information Resources
(email jwilson@slv.vic.gov.au,
phone 03 9669 9815 or fax 03 9663 1480) |
| Project
description: Provision of online access to digital copies of materials
held within our collection. 122, 000 records have been made available via our
Web site with brief MARC records, using software called WebPAC. |
| URL of site: |
http://slv950.slv.vic.gov.au/webpac-bin/wgbroker?new+-access+top.image |
| URL for project
information: |
http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue9/digitising/
- NB* article is from 1997 and considerable progress has been made since
then. |
| Content: |
Approximately 3% of the entire collection
is involved in this digitisation project. Material digitised included
photographs, sound recordings, video, handwritten as well as typed materials,
3-D objects, paintings and other formats. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
Digitisation policy developed by staff, on
Cornell University Library's "Digital Imaging for Libraries and Archives"
publication. Online policy developed based on other policies available but not
incorporated within the organisation's business plan. Digitisation is becoming
Library practice. Collections in special areas will acquire, catalogue and
digitally capture items at the same time. |
| Timetable: |
1990- ongoing |
| Budget and funding: |
Internal, State and Commonwealth
government as well as private funding - $A500,000 - $A1,000,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Original digital work was outsourced now
all material is digitised internally by cataloguers who are also trained
digitisers/scanners and digital photographers. |
| Technical standards: |
Scan at 400dpi to produce a minimum of 2
meg black and white TIF or a 5 meg colour TIF, the resolution is increased if
this size isn't achieved. Images are converted to JPEGS using Image Alchemy to
standardize size to 600 pixels across by appropriate length. Hardware used for
digitisation: Gateway 2000 Pentium 200 with 64Meg of RAM and 2 Gigabytes of
disk space; Capturing equipment: Umax Powerlook 2000 Scanner Minolta RD175
Digital Camera. Currently back ups are being made on DAT tape. We are looking
at using CD-ROM backup. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Each digital item has the fifteen tags
recommended by the Dublin Core. Not all tags are appropriate for some items.
Where possible as many as can be used are included in a record. Copyright and
reproduction rights are attached to all files. Copyright issues are being
monitored by a group of Multimedia producers for the Victorian Arts agencies.
The group called artvicmm comprises of representatives from the Museum of
Victoria, the State Library of Victoria, the National Gallery of Victoria, the
Public Record Office, Cinemedia, Victorian Arts Centre Trust, the Botanical
Gardens and the Performing Arts Museum. Arts Victoria and Multimedia Victoria
also attend these meetings. |
| Comments: |
Digitisation in-house has been very
beneficial and cost effective and staff have been provided with the opportunity
to increase their skill level. |
Last modified: October 16 2009.