National Library of Australia


Australian Federation full text database

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/
URL for project information: The list of works accessible and to be done is available at http://setis.library.usyd.edu.au/fed/
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:
Timetable: Continuing - due to be completed July 2001.
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Staff resources:
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.
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Project managers wishing to update the details of their Australian digitisation projects, should email the changes to alg@nla.gov.au.

Last modified: February 15 2006.