| Project participants: |
State Library of South
Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Peter Jenkins, Manager Preservation
Services (email Jenkins.Peter@slsa.sa.gov.au,
phone 08 8207 7315 or fax 08 8207 7351) |
| Project
description: Multimedia CD-ROM tracing the development of Australia's transport
history. Aiming to provide improved public access to the collection, enhance
preservation techniques and explore the resources required to undertake major
digitisation. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:84/screens/opacmenu.html |
| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
500 images from the collections of the
State Library of South Australia scanned and mastered onto Photo CD. Screen
resolution images incorporated into a multimedia production on
Macintosh/windows CD ROM. Digitised photographs and typed text. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/2020.htm |
| Timetable: |
Completed: April 1996 - October 1996 |
| Budget and funding: |
Project funded from private funds and
corporate sponsorship - less than $A20,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation process outsourced to
Bridgehead Australia Pty Ltd. |
| Technical standards: |
Image masters: Kodak PhotoCD Images on CD
ROM: director movies. Image capture: Kodak professional Photo CD Accessing:
Macromedia Director. Kodak Photo CD Imaging Workstation with images stored on
Kodak Photo CD. When Photo CD becomes obsolete, we will transfer image files to
whatever is then a suitable accepted standard. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Keyword list compiled for records and used
for search engine in multimedia package. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: August 09 2004.