| 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 7354) |
| Project
description: A 1998 project to stabilize and conserve the work led to high
resolution photograhic digitisation of the entire 360 page vellum, 13th century
Italian work and storage on compact disc. This has made it possible to make the
whole manuscript and selected parts of the live performance of the Antiphonal
accessible in virtual reality through a computer, and to release it on the
Internet complete with transcription, translation and notes. It is now both far
more widely accessible, and also more protected. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/treasures/antiphonal/index.html |
| URL for project
information: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/treasures/antiphonal/information.htm |
| Content: |
730 Web pages. One series of 359 contain
images of individual pages of the Antiphonal combined with a transcription of
the original Latin whilst another series of 359 provide images and an English
translation of the text. Additional pages provide such information as the
history and perceived highlights of the Antiphonal. Sound recordings and
handwritten material. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/2020.htm |
| Timetable: |
Completed. April 1996 - February 1998
|
| Budget and funding: |
Funded internally - $A20,000 -
$A50,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation process outsourced to
Bridgehead Australia Pty Ltd. |
| Technical standards: |
Image Masters: Kodak Photo CD Images on
Web site: JPEG images approximately 290x420 pixels. Capturing: Kodak
professional Photo CD Image preparation for website: Adobe Photoshop. Kodak
Photo CD imaging workshop and Kodak Photo CD. When Photo CDs become obsolete,
we will transfer image files to whatever is then suitable accepted standard.
|
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Page number sequence only. |
| Comments: |
When we started photographing the
Antiphonal we hadn't thought of the Web site as an end product. As a general
lesson, there is often more than one alternative way of doing things, and the
best one is determined by the end product. The conversion of the Photo CD
format into JPEGs was time consuming. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.