| Project participants: |
National
Library of Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Linda Groom, Pictorial Librarian (email
lgroom@nla.gov.au or phone 02 6262
1395). |
| Project
description: Pictures Catalogue is a resource discovery service providing
access to items in the National Library of Australia's pictorial collection,
some of which have digital surrogates. The main purposes are improved access,
especially for people outside the Canberra region, and streamlining of
photographic reproductions services. There are also preservation benefits
through reduced handling of original material. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures |
| URL for project
information: |
http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/988
http://www.nla.gov.au/catalogue/pictures/about.html |
| Content: |
All images are digital copies of items in
the National Library's Pictorial Collection, which contains over 600,000 items.
The Collection covers topics related to Australia and the Australian people,
with some coverage of Papua New Guinea, the Antarctic, the Pacific and other
countries in the region. Topics include social history, transport, agriculture,
mining, industry, leisure, performing arts, the growth of cities, as well as
portraits of significant Australians. Types of material include oil paintings,
watercolours, prints, posters, photographs and some three dimensional objects.
The subset of the collection that has been digitised includes examples from all
the above topics and types of material, but with more emphasis, so far, rarer
works from the late 18th and the 19th centuries. Over 30,000 images with an
expected annual growth rate of over 10,000 images. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
New acquisitions; material most used
(including material used in NLA exhibitions and publications); high profile
collections eg Nan Kivell Collection; provided copyright allows.
http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digitisation.html |
| Timetable: |
1995- ongoing |
| Budget and funding: |
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| Staff resources: |
Until May 2001 digitisation of most
material was performed by Scott Four Colour
Print, a Perth-based company, which was selected through a tender process.
From July 2001 digisation has been preformed by National Libray Staff. |
| Technical standards: |
Masters are tiffs, with at least 300 dpi
resolution. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
MARC records created on
Libraries Australia. Catalogue records are
downloaded to an in-house management system. The converted format is aligned
with Dublin Core. An enhancement is planned to migrate to a more heirarchical
data structure. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: October 20 2009.