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
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
- PICTURES CATALOGUE [1995- ongoing]
- 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
- Territory Images [Continuing Project - ongoing.]
- Northern
Territory Library and Information Service
- Cyclone Tracy website [Project completed 1998.]
- Northern Territory Government Gazettes on CD-Rom [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.