| Project participants: |
Orange
Regional Gallery |
| Contact officer/s: |
Alan Sisley, Gallery Director (email
sisleya@ix.net.au, phone 02 63615136 or
fax 02 63610072) |
| Project
description: The digital photography/scanning of Orange Regional Gallery
collection and entry into Inmagic database. Purchase of suitable colour
printer, removable storage and data display/projector to make this data and
image bank accessible to the public. Creation of Web site with documentation of
this data. Main aim being to provide improved public access to the collection.
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| URL of site: |
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| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
Photographs handwritten material typed
text 3-D objects paintings. Images are to be published electronically or hard
copy without appropriate copyright permission. Permission will gradually be
sought as time and funding permits, however, we refuse to pay copyright fees
for Web site, for information kiosk or for hard copy publicity or education
purposes - indeed, for any use that does not and is not intended to generate
income for us. Artists who refuse to give free permission for these uses will
not be listed in either place, via image. 10% of the collection has already
been digitised - 60% is planned to be digitised by the end of 1998 and 100% by
the end of 1999. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
Organisation has a digitisation policy
(not yet available publicly) within it's business plan which was developed
through ideas generated in an AusIndustry trial marketing project of which
Orange Regional Gallery was a participant. No online policy. |
| Timetable: |
June 1998 - June 2000 (anticipated
completion) |
| Budget and funding: |
A draft funding submission has been lodged
with NSW Ministry for the Arts and suitable Federal funding will be sought next
funding round. However, it is not very expensive, and most hardware has been
purchased - we only have 600 objects, so completion of the project can take
place with Local Government funding if necessary - (so tedious lodging Federal
grant submissions, and fruitless in most cases - and getting worse and less
relevant to regional galleries). Funding from internal, private State and
Commonwealth government sources. Total budget $A20,000-$A50,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Digitisation undertaken mostly inhouse -
Web site being designed externally. Plan to train staff in FTP, instruction in
digitisation procedures. Most will be inhouse given by Alan Sisley who has self
acquired various computer skills - having owned a computer since 1982. Alan has
attended DCA and RGANSW digitisation forums and used online resources to gather
information. |
| Technical standards: |
Scanning resolution is 72dpi, file formats
are JPEG. Adobe Photo Deluxe and other software bundled with the camera and
Lexmark 7200 inkjet printer. Intend to purchase Paint Shop Pro for enhanced
browsing ability of our 600 object collection. We have also Inmagic database
modified inhouse for art gallery use. For digitisation: Pentium 200mmx computer
as server to four dx4100 users, including public kiosk to be built. New top of
the range Sony LCD projector. Image capturing: Kodak 120 digital camera,
Hewlett Packard scanner, Snappy simple video capture where necessary (only to
take stills from in house video). Storage: probably 2gb Jaz drive and a CD-ROM
cutter (still investigating - images and database currently stored on Council
Network server) |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Only unique identifying title (artist
name) |
| Comments: |
Although time consuming, any one can do it
with online advice and commitment to the project - and at least 10K worth of
hardware and software.
No technical difficulties encountered - it is easy - but time
consuming. Although Inmagic has good batch file import of AASCI text data
linking to image storage location - it still takes time to scan and or
photograph the works (I tend to photograph them as the scanner does not seem
very reliable and not high quality enough). As the images are not meant to be
of publication quality in hard copy a resolution of 72dpi seems adequate -
although I seek advice on better approaches here. |
Last modified: October 20 2009.