| Project participants: |
State
Library of South Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Peter Jenkins, Manager Digital Library
Group (Jenkins.Peter@slsa.sa.gov.au,
phone 08 8207 7315 or fax 08 8207 7351) |
| Project
description: 54,000 images originally stored on videodisk in analog form have
been digitised and stored as JPEG files on CD-ROM disks. Images resized and
transferred to web server. Accompanying database records converted to MARC
format and uploaded to library's catalog. Viewable through web browser
interface to catalogue. STAGE 2 of the project adds a further 8,691 images to
the 54,556 images originally converted from videodisk. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.catalog.slsa.sa.gov.au:84/screens/opacmenu.html |
| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
54,000 photographic images originally
stored on videodisk in analog form have been digitised and stored as JPEG files
on CD-ROM disks. The
Mortlock
Pictorial Collection contains photographs and atrworks documenting South
Australian life. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/2020.htm |
| Timetable: |
STAGE 1 completed (19 June 1996 - 29 May
1998) STAGE 2 completed (21 October - 6 September 2000) |
| Budget and funding: |
$111,000 from bequest fund. |
| Staff resources: |
Scanning and image optimisation by
Bridgehead Australia Pty Ltd;
project management, production of web surrogates and indexing by SLSA
staff. |
| Technical standards: |
Master digital images: Kodak PhotoCD
imagepack and 300 ppi, 256-level greyscale uncompressed TIFF. Image capture:
Kodak PIW. Image optimisation, web surrogate production, record updating: Apple
Power Macintosh G4/Equilibrium DeBabelizer and Apple HyperCard. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Indexed on DEC Alpha 300/Innovative
Interfaces Inc Innopac. Conversion of the existing machine-readable caption
data to MARC records to be stored on one of the Library's OPAC databases. ).
Digital objects linked to the library catalog through MARC field 856 which the
OPAC web browser interface uses to access images in one of the Library's
servers. |
| Comments: |
Resolving copyright issues has been an
unexpected major component of this project. |
Last modified: October 20 2009.