| 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: Digitisation an initial 2,000 items from the State Library of
South Australia's collection of wine books and ephemera to showcase one of the
Library's most extensive and unique collections. Images will become part of the
Wine Literature of the World website and also catalogued and accessible through
the Library's OPAC. |
| URL of site: |
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| URL for project
information: |
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| Content: |
The State Library of South Australia holds
the largest collection of wine-related material in the southern hemisphere.
Material includes books, pamphlets, photographs, magazines, wine labels, hand
and typewritten materials, menus and wine lists, 3D objects and South
Australian company records. |
| Digitisation policy and
priorities: |
http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/library/2020.htm |
| Timetable: |
Continuing - since 22 June 1999. |
| Budget and funding: |
In-kind sponsorship by
EDS Australia estimated at approximately
$70,000. |
| Staff resources: |
Scanning and image optimisation by EDS
Australia sub-contractor and 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. Indexing: DEC Alpha 300/Innovative Interfaces Inc
Innopac. |
| Cataloguing and
indexing: |
Uses the Library's catalogue system
(Innovative Interfaces Inc's Innopac), with digital objects linked to the
library catalog through MARC field 856. Some information exported from the
catalogue incorporated into the web pages. |
| Comments: |
Text which was scanned as 600 ppi bitonal
images and converted to GIFF web surrogates appear inferior to 300 ppi 8-bit
greyscale images converted to JPEG surrogates. Will probably stick to the
latter in future. |
Last modified: August 09 2004.