| Project participants: |
John
Curtin Prime Ministerial Library |
| Contact officer/s: |
Kandy-Jane Henderson, Archivist (email
jcpml@boris.curtin.edu.au, phone
08 9266 4205 or fax 08 9266 4185) |
| Project
description: The JCPML is the official repository of the John Curtin Memorial
Lectures and this project was undertaken to test how the JCPML could best
enhance client access to one of its own collections. |
| URL of site: |
http://john.curtin.edu.au/jcmemlect/index.html |
| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
Photographs and typed 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 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: |
Completed project: 15 January 1997 - 23 February 1998
|
| Budget and funding: |
Funded internally - total budget less than $A20,000
|
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation done with inhouse facilities with
assistance from external project staff. There will be upgrades to software and
changing software and hardware that will require staff training. |
| Technical standards: |
Photographs 72dpi digital records converted to HTML
scanning resolution 200dpi using Adobe Pagemill Microsoft Word Adobe Photoshop
on Apple Macintosh. Capturing equipment: UMAX scanner. Storage devices: Alpha
server. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
The lectures are arranged chronologically. Dublin Core
metadata elements are attached. |
| Comments: |
The OCR software was not accurate enough in dealing
with many of the older documents we had to scan (1960 onwards). The process was
used successfully with more recent documents. Lesson learnt: the necessity
of being selective in deciding on the appropriateness of using OCR technology
to improve the accessibility of archival documents. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.