| Project participants: |
Australian
War Memorial |
| Contact officer/s: |
Neil McPherson, Webmaster (email
neil.mcpherson@awm.gov.au, phone
02 6243 4559 or fax: 02 6243 4325) |
| Project
description: Digital conversion of the Australian War Memorial's national
collection of photographs of Australians at war to form accessible to the
public, researchers, writers and documentarians via the Web. Improved
collection management and digital objects that will be sold. Digitisation of
photographs, 3-D objects and paintings. |
| URL of site: |
http://cas.awm.gov.au |
| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
In Phase one, 160,000 photos, 20,000
artworks. 10% of the collection has already been digitised; 20% is planned to
be digitised by the end of 1998 and 30% by the end of 1999. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
Digitisation policy formulated by internal
working group including department/section heads as part of the organisation's
business plan. Online policy under development within public programs. |
| Timetable: |
June 1993 - ongoing |
| Budget and funding: |
Commonwealth government funding -
$A100,000-$A150,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation process undertaken
substantially inhouse and outsourced to commercial company.Consideration now
being given to training of digitisation staff by staff users, in-house training
in the main. |
| Technical standards: |
PAL format, predominantly JPEG. Software
used: False; Computer: Pentium 486; Capturing equipment: Analogue cams, digital
soon; Storage devices: Hard disk. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Descriptive captions recorded in the
collection management system. Uniform up until now but new equipment will make
logging an issue for us. |
| Comments: |
Quality (level) of resolution may affect
our future actions. Speed of technological change and growth of public
expectations. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.