| Project participants: |
John
Curtin Prime Ministerial Library with Digital Corporation and various collecting and
government archives that hold John Curtin related material. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Kandy-Jane Henderson, Archivist (email
jcpml@boris.curtin.edu.au, phone
08 9266 4205 or fax 08 9266 4185) |
| Project
description: To create an electronic archive of material relating to John
Curtin to enable access to users on-site and worldwide. This necessitates the
digitisation of material in the JCPML Collection and material held by others.
Aims being to enhance collection management, provide improved public access to
the collection and enhance preservation techniques. |
| URL of site: |
http://dtl.lis.curtin.edu.au/ |
| URL for project
information: |
http://dtl.lis.curtin.edu.au/ |
| Content: |
Photographs, handwritten and typed texts,
3-D objects and other materials. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
The JCPML digitisation policy was devised
as part of it's strategic and
information planning process. No online policy. The JCPML Electronic
Archive Management Framework, November 1997 outlines the responsibilities of
the JCPML for the preservation and long term access to digital objects.
Digitisation of John Curtin related material is ongoing. 90% of the JCPML
collection is available as a digital reference if not as full content. |
| Timetable: |
Current project: 1 November 1997 - ongoing
|
| Budget and funding: |
Funded internally and with corporate
sponsorship - total budget $A150,000 - $A250,000. |
| Staff resources: |
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| Technical standards: |
TIFF file format. Our standard scanning
resolution is 300dpi, but this is variable dependent on nature of material to
be digitised. Software used: Excalibur Efs Kofax on a Digital PC. Image
capturing done on Fujitsu and HP scanners. Storage on Alpha server. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
The Excalibur RetrievalWare Search Engine
searches the content of text files and intellectual control metadata for images
and text. Technical metadata is attached to each image and text file. |
| Comments: |
Technical difficulties when resolving
issues of interface between the software components and the hardware.
Note the importance of environmental scanning to find out what
others are doing and what we can learn from them to advance projects and the
importance of technical and systems support when taking on a project of this
magnitude. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.