| Project participants: |
State
Library of Queensland |
| Contact officer/s: |
Grant Collins (email
grant.collins@slq.qld.gov.au)
Manager, Collection Preservation, phone 07 3840 7841 or fax 07 3840 2421 |
Project
description: Looking Back is the result of an early pilot project "Digital
Research Pilot". The project served to assess and investigate issues inherent
in a digitisation project. 250 slide images, mainly depicting Queensland in the
1950's (but including images up to the early 1980s) were digitised. Priorities
for the project included the:
- research value and technical outcomes
- documentation of the process and its application to the State
Library's digital agenda
- evaluation of the process end-product
- investigation of access issues via the State Library's web
site.
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| URL of site: |
http://lookingback.slq.qld.gov.au/ |
| URL for project
information: |
http://lookingback.slq.qld.gov.au/help.htm#what |
| Content: |
250 colour slides and 6 colour
transparencies depicting life in Queensland from the 1950s to the 1980s were
selected for digitisation. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/file/6286/digitisation.doc |
| Timetable: |
Completed 2000 |
| Budget and funding: |
The Amy Jenkins Bequest was used as a
funding source for the important step of obtaining clearances from copyright
owners to use the images on the Internet. Otherwise, no direct funding was
provided. The project was completed by various State Library of Queensland
staff members. |
| Staff resources: |
All image selection, digitisation,
database construction, indexing and web design was completed in-house by State
Library of Queensland staff. |
| Technical standards: |
Photographs. Three versions of each image
were created and saved:
- Version 1: an archive TIFF version at a resolution of 300 ppi,
image size of 10x6 cm, approximate file size of 2.7MB.
- Version 2: an access JPEG version at a resolution of 150 ppi,
image size of 6x4 cm, approximate file size of about 37KB.
- Version 3: a small JPEG thumbnail version at a low quality
resolution of 72 ppi, image size of 4x2 cm, compressed to 7KB.
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| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
No metadata or metadata schema was used
with this project - indexing of digitised images was kept at a minimum
level. |
| Comments: |
Please contact the nominated State Library
officer for a copy of the full report. |
Last modified: October 20 2009.