| Project participants: |
Deakin
University Library - Deakin University is collaborating with other
Universities for the Copyright Agency
Limited (CAL) legal test case. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Colin Bates, Information Services Manager (email
colinb@deakin.edu.au, phone 03 5227
2713 or fax 03 5227 8000) |
| Project
description: To make non-copyright or Deakin University held copyright
material (lecture notes, course guides etc.) available to staff and students at
the University over the Library WWW catalogue. Aim being to add content to the
existing Web site, improve collection management and provide improved public
access to the collection. |
| URL of site: |
http://library.deakin.edu.au/search/r |
| URL for project information: |
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| Content: |
Typed text - mostly ephemeral items with a maximum
useful life of 5 years. Less than 1% of the entire collection is involved in
this digitisation project? Anticipate that less than 2% will be digitised by
the end of 1999. |
| Digitisation policy and priorities: |
Digitisation policy developed internally with regard
to non-copyright material specific to the Library Reserve collection. |
| Timetable: |
Current project: 1 Feburary 1997 - ongoing |
| Budget and funding: |
Internal and Commonwealth government funding - total
$A50,000 - $A100,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation process undertaken inhouse. |
| Technical standards: |
Material must be in Word 6 or Word 7 format, as a PDF
file, or as a URL to a Web site. Software: MS Word Adobe Acrobat HTML on a
Pentium PC. Storage on Hard Disk and WWW server. |
| Cataloguing and indexing: |
Brief Library catalogue entry. |
| Comments: |
Scanning errors for some material - required proof
reading. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.