| Project participants: |
University
of Newcastle Archives -
Rare
Books & Special Collections Unit |
| Contact officer/s: |
Mr Gionni Di Gravio (phone 02 4921 5819,
fax 02 49215833 or email gionni.digravio@newcastle.edu.au) |
| Project
description: The Project is aimed at providing an access point for all our
scanned and digitised materials from our archives, manuscript and rare book
collections.We also attempt to provide researchers with the materials in Cdrom
format. We would aim to try and integrate these into a database management
system in due course. |
| URL of site: |
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/collections/archives/int/digitalscriptorium.html |
| URL for project
information: |
http://www.newcastle.edu.au/services/library/collections/archives/int/digitalscriptorium.html |
| Content: |
At present the digitised materials cover a
range of rare books, multimedia productions, archive manuscripts, documents
such as correspondence and photographic collections. Photographs, sound
recordings, handwritten material, typewritten text and other print materials
digitised. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
No digitisation policy. |
| Timetable: |
Released 4 August 2000 as an on-going
project based upon past digitisation work that had been archived. Further
titles will be added in the course of time - no fixed timetable. |
| Budget and funding: |
|
| Staff resources: |
Inhouse. |
| Technical standards: |
Hardware:Canon Powershot Digital Camera,
Umax Powerlook III Scanner, HP Scanjet Scanner. Software: MagicScan 4.3,
Paperport, Photoshop Scanning res: 200dpi - 300dpi. Original scans: tif format
archived on cdrom, jpgs used for web . |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Some metadata is used to describe the
materials, we use no online database at the moment. |
| Comments: |
Difficulties in obtaining clear readable
images with the digital camera, overcome with trial and error with lighting
adjustments. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.