| Project participants: |
University
of Sydney Library in cooperation with the
State
Library of New South Wales' Federation ephemera
digitisation project. |
| Contact officer/s: |
Dr Creagh Cole, Coordinator, Scholarly
Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS) (email
c.cole@library.usyd.edu.au,
phone 02 9351 7408 or fax 02 9351 7290) |
| Project
description: The Australian Federation Full Text Database will provide, for the
first time in a fully searchable form, the key primary source texts of
Australian Federation, including the official reports of the debates of the
1890's (scanned at the Senate Research Office), the major participants'
accounts and memoirs, as well as a number of important related texts. |
| URL of site: |
http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/fed/
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| URL for project
information: |
The list of works accessible and to be
done is available at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/fed/
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| Content: |
Over 40 works will be freely accessible
through the database including, in addition to the Debates, works by Barton,
Deakin, Parkes, Piddington, Quick, Reid and Spence. The database will be freely
accessible to researchers, students, schools, journalists and the general
public and will support the study of Australian history, civics, and
government. Records for all works will appear in the
Libraries Australia service, and links are
welcome from other library catalogues or sites. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
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| Timetable: |
Continuing - due to be completed July
2001. |
| Budget and funding: |
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| Staff resources: |
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| Technical standards: |
The texts will be encoded in a form of
SGML/XML (Standard Generalised Markup Language/ Extensible Markup Language)
devised for humanities source texts through the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI)
guidelines. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
The texts of the individual works or all
works in the full database will be fully searchable, including by speakers and
phrases. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: October 20 2009.