| Project participants: |
State
Library of New South Wales |
| Contact officer/s: |
Heather Mansell, Manager, Preservation (email
hmansell@sl.nsw.gov.au) |
| Project description:
Phase 1 was a preservation reformatting project of Utzon material
which includes 1,600 manuscript items, 816 original drawings and 3,200 dyeline
plans. All have been microfilmed, and the dyeline plans have also been scanned.
The digital files created have been printed on to polyester film and the files
stored on DAT tape. Phase 2 will provide access to the material as part of an
Architectural Plans electronic finding aid project through
PICMAN and the
Library's website. Major aims and objectives are improved public access to the
collection, enhanced preservation techniques, to explore the resources required
to undertake major digitisation projects (ie this is a pilot project); to
explore the production of computer output microfilm, to create sustainable
workflows and systems to support the digitisation and web delivery of other
large format material such as maps. |
| URL of site: |
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| URL for project information: |
Nothing available online. |
| Content: |
1,600 manuscript items, 816 drawings and 3,200 dyeline
plans. Digitised images of individual paintings, drawings and watercolours will
also be added to the PICMAN database when
further resources become available. First priority are the 816 conceptual
drawings. |
| Digitisation policy and priorities: |
The State Library has a digitisation policy but it is
not yet available on the World Wide Web. |
| Timetable: |
Continuing project: April 1996 - 30 June 2001 |
| Budget and funding: |
Funding of $100,000 for the project was received from
the Ladies Committee of the Sydney Opera House Appeal Fund; the Dreyer
Foundation (Denmark), the NSW State
Government, Foundations of Architecture & a private citizen. This will
cover microfilming, storage cabinets, scanning, some record creation, software,
some quality control. The State Library of NSW will contribute staff time for
tasks such as project management, copyright clearance and quality control
estimated at $60,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation and microfilming were outsourced to a
private company and temporary staff were employed for cataloguing and quality
control. Other staff resources contributed are the Copyright and Permissions
Librarian (arranged for licencing agreements with the
Copyright Agency Ltd (CAL)), quality
control, project management, web design, etc. |
| Technical standards: |
Bitonal scanning at 400dpi, captured as TIF Group 4,
stored on DAT 4mm. Cheyannie tape backup for archiving, Imagination 1 for
viewing and checking, Exabyte mammoth tape for archiving. OCE printer.
Capturing equipment: OCE scanner. Storage devices: Sony DDS drive. MrSid or
similar software will be required for web presentation. |
| Cataloguing and indexing: |
Local file naming schema devised based upon Library of
Congress. Records created on PICMAN (see
PICMAN
entry for standards). Possibility of EAD for finding aid. |
| Comments: |
- 100% quality checking is essential - the QC of facsimile plans
highlighted need for more frequent calibration of scanner.
- Some problems with software incompatibility resolved.
- Lack of resources to undertake QC has delayed completion.
- The scanning of dyelines and enhancement of digital files has
allowed the retrieval of information no longer visible on the original plan.
- Large size (up to 10 MB) of digital files makes access
difficult - will be solved by MrSid or similar.
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Last modified: October 20 2009.