| Project participants: |
Northern
Territory Library and Information Service |
| Contact officer/s: |
Linda Marchesani, Manager, Heritage Services (email
linda.marchesani@nt.gov.au, phone 08 8999 3929 or fax 08 8999 6920) |
| Project
description: The purpose of Territory Images is to enable the preservation of items in the photographic collection held in the Northern Territory Library through providing client access to digital surrogates. A web version is available, of the publically accessible items within the database. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.ntlib.nt.gov.au/ntlpicweb |
| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
The Northern Territory Library holds a
collection of over 100,000 photographs and transparencies relating to the
Northern Territory. 63,000 images have been digitised |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
No digitisation or online policy. |
| Timetable: |
Continuing Project - ongoing. |
| Budget and funding: |
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| Staff resources: |
Digitisation of images is contracted
out. |
| Technical standards: |
Digitised material consists of
photographs. Images have been scanned as JPEG files at a resolution of 760 x
568 pixels in 16.7M colours with an average file size of 50k. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
The database is indexed and searched using
SearchTech's Perfect Pictures Software. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: February 15 2006.