| Project participants: |
John
Curtin Prime Ministerial Library and
National
Archives of Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Kandy-Jane Henderson, Archivist (email
jcpml@boris.curtin.edu.au, phone
08 9266 4205 or fax 08 9266 4185) |
| Project
description: This is an on-line project which highlights Curtin's relationship
with the Australian public during WWII. The focus of the project is on the
viability of providing electronic access to material held in remote locations.
|
| URL of site: |
http://john.curtin.edu.au/letters/cover.html |
| URL for project
information: |
http://john.curtin.edu.au/letters/cover.html |
| Content: |
Altogether there are nearly 600 separate
documents which have been stored as more than 570 individual images. These
documents have been drawn from the personal records of John Curtin held at the
National Archives of Australia.Handwritten 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 longterm 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: 1 November 1995 - 15
July 1997 |
| Budget and funding: |
Internal and corporate sponsorship - total
budget less than $A20,000. |
| Staff resources: |
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| Technical standards: |
Individual documents were first
photographed onto 35mm colour transparencies by the National Archives and these
transparencies were then transferred to a digital image by Scott Four Colour
Print, using Kodak Photo CD technology. Each digital image was scanned in a
range of resolutions. For this project the chosen file size of the images is
512x768 with a resolution of 72 dpi, stored in JPEG compression. The format
chosen to present this information is HTML (Hyper-Text Markup Language) using
the Netscape Navigator. HTML was chosen because of its universal ability to
transfer between different media and platforms. The physical sizes of the
original documents vary. However, at the time of photographing each image
filled the 35 mm frame. A scale is therefore included with each image to
indicate its true size. Scanning resolution 2400 api converting material from
Kodak CD to gif files using Adobe Pagemill, Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop,
Prelude 1.6 Graphic Converter and Netscape Navigator Fetch on Apple computers.
Capturing equipment: Kodak CD-ROM. Storage devices: Alpha server and CD-ROM.
|
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Content is searchable by broad category or
by a key word index. Dublin Core metadata elements are attached. |
| Comments: |
Material located in a remote site does not
prevent it being digitised. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.