| Project participants: |
State
Library of South Australia |
| Contact officer/s: |
Peter Jenkins, Manager Digital Library
Group (Jenkins.Peter@slsa.sa.gov.au,
phone 08 8207 7315 or fax 08 8207 7351) |
| Project
description: Approximately 400 images have been selected from published and
archival sources held in the State Library of South Australia as part of a
Centenary of Federation SA project to produce a select bibliography about South
Australia and Federation. The bibliography will be published in print and as a
website. |
| URL of site: |
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| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
Approximately 400 images selected from
published and unpublished material in State Library of South Australia
collections, including newspaper articles, photographs, type and handwritten
materials, illustrations and cartoons drawn by hand. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/2020.htm |
| Timetable: |
Continuing project - since 3 November
1999. |
| Budget and funding: |
Centenary of Federation SA grant of
$20,000 for print and web versions of the bibliography. |
| Staff resources: |
Scanning and image optimisation by SLSA
contract staff; project management and indexing by SLSA staff. |
| Technical standards: |
Master digital images: 600 ppi bitonal,
300 ppi 256-level greyscale and 300 ppi 24-bit colour uncompressed TIFF. Image
capture: IBM PC and Apple Power Macintosh G3 beige, A4 flatbed scanner/Adobe
Photoshop with TWAIN plug-in. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Some sources are catalogued in the
Library's catalog system (Innovative Interfaces Inc's Innopac). Other materials
such as newspaper articles and illustrations from periodicals are indexed in
the bibliography. Dublin Core metadata will be applied to some objects. |
| Comments: |
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Last modified: August 09 2004.