| Project participants: |
National
Library of Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Kevin Bradley, Manager: Digital and Audio
Preservation Resources (email kbradley@nla.gov.au or phone 02 6262
1381) |
| Project
description: The Oral History
collection commenced acquiring some of its material in digital form in 1991
when it initiated the use of Digital Audio Tape (DAT) recorders in the field.
The digitisation of the oral history collection is unique in the Library in
that it is the only non-image digitisation project and, though it provides
access benefits, is being driven by preservation needs. |
| URL of site: |
Access to audio material via the Web has
not been implemented due to copyright and technological constraints, though a
pilot project to test the online delivery of oral history material is
underway. |
| URL for project
information: |
n/a |
| Content: |
There are not 4,906 hours (at 9 August
2000) of DAT material in the collection - acquisitions increasing by c.850
hours per year. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
NLA digitisation policy availabl efrom
http://www.nla.gov.au/policy/digitisation.html.
In 1995/6 the use of CD-R as a digital preservation strategy within the
National Library was instituted - 5,357 hours of the collection have been
preserved (at 9 August 2000), or 16% of the collection. Preservation copies
increasing by c.1,600 hours per year. |
| Timetable: |
Continuing project. |
| Budget and funding: |
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| Staff resources: |
Inhouse staff. |
| Technical standards: |
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| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
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| Comments: |
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Last modified: August 09 2004.