National Library of Australia


Australian digitisation projects

To contribute and maintain information about digitisation projects, please use the digitisation project update form (available in Microsoft Word 2 / Word 7 or Rich Text Format) - and email to alg@nla.gov.au or fax 02 6273 1180. Please check to see that your project is in scope for inclusion.


La Trobe University Library
Library image database [Completed project: 1994-1996 ]
ACT Heritage Library
Images ACT (incorporating Reflections of Canberra) [On-going project which commenced in 1998.]
AIATSIS Library Digitisation Program 2005-08
Australian digitisation project [Continuing project 2005-2008]
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Research Library and Archive
Art press clippings digitisation project [Planned July 1998 - December 1998]
Australian War Memorial
Photography and art digitisation [June 1993 - ongoing]
Bawinanga Aboriginal Corporation
Digitising the photographic collection at the Djomi Museum [1995-1996]
Brennan & Geraghty's Store Museum
Brennan & Geraghty's Store Museum document collection onto CD [Completed: December 1997 - December 1998]
Digital re-formating of fragile letterbook copies [Continuing: 1998-1999]
Central Highlands Regional Library Corporation
Digitisation of maps and design plans of Ballarat [1999- ongoing]
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
South Seas project [To be completed by 31 December 2002]
Cinemedia
SWIFT (Screen Windows Into Film Titles) [Current project: 1 July 1996 - 30 July 1998]
Deakin University Library
Electronic reserve and past exam papers [Current project: 1 Feburary 1997 - ongoing]
Deakin University digital theses collection [The current project will run from 31/08/1999 to 30/03/2000. It is envisioned that it will then be ongoing.]
Flinders University of South Australia - Library
Digitisation of Evatt and Dunstan Collections [Continuing project - 1 July 2000 - indefinite.]
Golden Dragon Museum
Digitisation of the photographic collection from the Golden Dragon Museum archive [1999- ongoing]
Griffith University Library
Ecological images from the Len Webb collection, Australia [Continuing project: 1 June 1997 - 31 December 2000]
Griffith University - Queensland College of Art Library
QCA LIDA: Library image database art [Began in March 1993. Bar-coding, circulation system, web site, LAN access for QCA & web access for Griffith]
John Curtin Prime Ministerial Library
Electronic research archive [Current project: 1 November 1997 - ongoing]
John Curtin memorial lectures [Completed project: 15 January 1997 - 23 February 1998]
John Curtin: a prime minister and his people [Completed project: 1 November 1995 - 15 July 1997]
John Curtin: Australia's wartime prime minister [Completed: June 1996 - February 1998]
La Trobe University Library
AV online: developing digital academic library [Continuing: January 1995 -]
Lead organisation: University of Sydney
Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures [Continuing Project.]
Lytentye Apurte Community
Digital reformatting of the collection of photographs held at Santa Teresa [1996-1997]
Museum Victoria
Museum Victoria image capture project [July 1990 - ongoing]
National Library of Australia
PICTURES CATALOGUE [1995- ongoing ]
National Archives of Australia
Photo Search [unknown]
National Gallery of Australia
Collection digitisation and database [unknown]
National Gallery of Victoria
National Gallery of Victoria collection [unknown]
National Library of Australia
Rare maps digitisation project [Proposed project - pilot project was]
Digitisation of oral history sound recordings [Continuing project.]
National Museum of Australia
Digitisation projects [Project underway - anticipated completion by 30 June 2001.]
National Archives of Australia
Documenting a democracy website project [Completed project (25 January 1999 - 19 June 2000).]
Newcastle Region Library
Digitising of the Newcastle Region Library's various collections [1997- ongoing]
Ngaanyatjara Council (Aboriginal Corporation)
Digital reformatting of the Warburton Mission photographic collection [1996-1997]
Ngaanyatjarra Yankunytjatjara Pitjantjatjara Women's Council Aboriginal Corporation
20 Years of NPY Women's Council: digitisation and preservation of photographic collection [1999- ongoing]
Ngarinyin Aboriginal Corporation
Digitisation of the Ngarinyin Community heritage photographic collection [unknown]
Northern Territory Library and Information Service
Cyclone Tracy website [Project completed 1998.]
Northern Territory Government Gazettes on CD-Rom [Continuing Project - ongoing.]
Territory Images [Continuing Project - ongoing.]
Northern Territory University Library
Digitisation of Northern Territory Aboriginal community language materials [unknown]
Orange Regional Gallery
Collection photographic digitisation [June 1998 - June 2000 (anticipated completion)]
Pitjantjatjara Council Library
Ara Irititja archival project [unknown]
Powerhouse Museum
Imaging project [Current project: 1 July 1995 - 30 June 2000.]
Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS), University of Sydney Library
John Anderson papers [November 1997 - ongoing]
Scholarly Electronic Text and Image Service (SETIS),University of Sydney Library
Joseph Henry Maiden: Forest Flora of NSW [November 1997 - ongoing]
ScreenSound Australia
Australian Stills Digitisation Project [Completed Project - April 1997 - June 1999.]
State Library of New South Wales
PICMAN: an index to pictures & manuscripts [Continuing project.]
Utzon Sydney Opera House Collection and Architectural Plans electronic finding aid project [Continuing project: April 1996 - 30 June 2001]
Matthew Flinders Project - James Fairfax Matthew Flinders Electronic Archive [1999- December 2001]
Infocus Online: linking people and information [Continuing project. August 2000 -]
Federation ephemera digitisation project [Continuing - due to be completed July 2001.]
State Library of Queensland
TimeWalks panoramas [Completed project]
Looking Back [Completed 2000]
Child's Play [Completed]
The Johnstone Gallery Archive [Completed. 5 Feb 2003 - 6 Mar 2003]
Picture Queensland - its people and places, past and present [Continuing. Project was proposed 01/03/2002 and the web site launched 02/06/2003. Phase 1 of the project is]
Manuscripts Queensland [Continuing project 16 Feb 2004 onwards]
Music Queensland [The project is ongoing. The Music Queensland was launched in June 2004.]
Picture Queensland Outreach [Continuing project: proposed 01/10/2003. Expressions of interest finalised 20/02/2004; training finalised 30/09/2004; Chinchilla Library launched 20/09/2004; Hinchinbrook launched 16 Februrary 2005; Barcaldine launched 16 March 2005. Project completion anticipated mid 2005.]
State Library of South Australia
Digitisation of the Mortlock Pictorial collection [STAGE 1 completed (19 June 1996 - 29 May 1998) STAGE 2 completed (21 October - 6 September 2000)]
The Bradman digital library [Continuing - since 3 Novmeber 1998.]
Advance Australia - South Australia and Federation [Continuing project - since 3 November 1999.]
Wine literature of the world [Continuing - since 22 June 1999.]
State Library of Tasmania
Images from the heritage collections [1 April 1997 - ongoing]
State Library of Victoria
Multimedia catalogue [1990- ongoing]
Pictoria [1989-]
State Forests of NSW
State Forests of NSW image library [unknown]
State Library of New South Wales
Sir Joseph Banks Electronic Archive Project [Completed project: 1 October 1993-1 October 1997]
State Library of New South Wales, the State Library of Tasmania, the State Library of Victoria, the National Library of Australia, and the Australian War Memorial
ImageSearch [1998-]
State Library of South Australia
An Australian journey [Completed: April 1996 - October 1996]
Treasures of the State Library - the Antiphonal [Completed. April 1996 - February 1998]
Swinburne University of Technology Library
Swinburne visual archive [Completed: 1 December 1996 - 1 December 1997.]
University of Newcastle Archives
The Digital Scriptorium [Released 4 August 2000 as an on-going project based upon past digitisation work that had been archived. Further]
University of Queensland Library
Digitisation of audio and video materials project [unknown]
Portrait of a colonial family: the Humes 1870-1890 [1995-]
Digitisation of the Henry Alcock collection [unknown]
University of Sydney Library
Australian Federation full text database [Continuing - due to be completed July 2001.]
University of Western Australia Library
Berndt Museum of Anthropology Web service - Kimberley materials [Completed: July 1997 - June 1998]
University of New South Wales Library
Australian Digital Theses (ADT) program [1998-1999]
University of Queensland Department of Architecture and the University Library
DigiLib: an architectural image database [Development of this project is ongoing and many more images will be added in the future.]
University of Sydney Library
Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845: Australian Co-operative Digitisation Project (Ferguson Project) [Continuing: January 1996 - 1999]
Australian literature collection [November 1997 - ongoing]
University of Sydney Library
Australian literature database [unknown]
Victoria University of Technology Library
Exam paper digitisation and EReserve project [Digitisation of past exam papers ran from 1 July 1997 - 1 September 1998. EReserve should be embedded by August 2000.]

Last modified: March 15 2005.