| Project participants: |
University
of Western Australia Library and Berndt Museum of Anthroplogy. Internal
collaboration between Faculty of Arts and University Library. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Toby Burrows, Principal Librarian - Scholars Centre
(email tburrows@library.uwa.edu.au,
phone08 9380 2358 or fax 08 9380 1128) |
| Project
description: Web service for the Berndt Museum of Anthropology at the
University of Western Australia. Features
searchable
database of descriptions of objects held in the museum, digitisation of
photographs of Kimberley objects, guided
tour of the
Museum. The aim being, provision of improved public access to the
collection. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.berndt.uwa.edu.au/ |
| URL for project information: |
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| Content: |
Approximately 30% of the entire collection is involved
in this digitisation project. |
| Digitisation policy and priorities: |
No digitisation or online policy exists. |
| Timetable: |
Completed: July 1997 - June 1998 |
| Budget and funding: |
Commonwealth government funding - $A100,000 -
$A150,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation processes outsourced to private company.
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| Technical standards: |
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| Cataloguing and indexing: |
A detailed record is provided for each item, including
type of object, place/region/country, description, function, originator,
collector. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: August 09 2004.