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| Project participants: | State Library of New South Wales |
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| Contact officer/s: | Paul Scifleet, Digital Projects Officer (email pscifleet@sl.nsw.gov.au, phone 02 9273 1515 or fax 02 9273 1248) |
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description: This Project celebrates the bicentenary of Matthew
Flinders' epic circumnavigation of Australia in the Investigator,
1801-1803. On this voyage, the shape of the Australian continent was
defined. The west, known as New Holland, and the east, known as New South
Wales, were shown to be part of the one land mass. Flinders became a passionate
advocate for the name Australia to be applied to the whole continent.
When the Project is completed in 2001, all Matthew Flinders' personal papers - his journals, letters, diary and memorabilia - held in the Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales will be available through the State Library's home page both in facsimile and in annotated transcription. This electronic archive will be linked in context to interpretative and curatorial information for the collection including the searchable catalogue records provided by PICMAN, the State Library of New South Wales' online database of original manuscript and pictorial material. |
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| URL of site: | http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/ |
| URL for project information: | http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/flinders/ |
| Content: | The collection includes Flinders' logbooks and journals of his voyages in the Norfolk, 1798-1799 and the Investigator, 1801-1803; his private diary, 1803-1814; his private and public letter books, 1801-1814; charts, a miniature portrait and his personal memorabilia (including his sword, hat, sextant and chess set). Approximately 2000 pages will be converted to digital format and made available online. |
| Digitisation policy and priorities: | The State Library has a digitisation policy but it is not yet available on the World Wide Web. |
| Timetable: | 1999- December 2001 |
| Budget and funding: | The Electronic Archive is funded by Mr James Fairfax AO In 2000/1, the budget for digitisation and architecture is $70,000. Full costings for project not available at this stage. |
| Staff resources: | Scanning is outsourced. Staff resources contribute to project management and archival description of the collection, data entry, photography, quality control, web design and IT infrastructure. |
| Technical standards: | The majority of items in the collection are scanned
from 6 x 4.5cm colour transparency reproductions of original materials -
photographs, handwritten material, typwritten text and 3D objects.
24 bit RGB TIFF Master files are captured within the range 300 - 400dpi and stored in Tiff file format. A number of derivative images are being created for the project including, a 24 bit RGB colour TIFF 'multimedia' file and Jpeg image files for online access which are saved at 150dpi for online access. Storage devices: CD-ROM and image file server. Transcripts are created and saved in text file format and delivered online in html. Provisions for the conversion of the text files to SGML format are currently under investigation. |
| Cataloguing and indexing: | Local file naming schema for digital objects based on Library of Congress & RLG models is applied. Catalogue records are created on PICMAN (see PICMAN entry for related standards development). |
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Last modified: October 20 2009.
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