Australian digitisation projects - scope
The aim of the Australian digitisation projects site is
to provide information about digitisation
projects within the Australian cultural community.
Inclusions: Projects should be significant or substantial, either in
terms of the importance or unique nature of the content, or in terms of the
amount of material being digitised or produced.
- Entries from public, private and non-profit organisations;
- Projects that are currently under-way, planned for the future or
already completed;
- Conversion of collections - of books, manuscripts, articles, films,
unique reference tools, finding aids or indexes, photographs, illustrations,
maps, sound recordings (refer also to Australia's oral
history collections: a national directory), video, 3D objects etc. - to
digital form, regardless of the storage media; and
- projects to create new digital objects or resources.
Projects which are out of scope:
- Internet publishing (ie electronic publication of books, reports and
magazines on the Web);
- online exhibitions (refer to the Gateway's
'Online exhibitions');
- simple scanning projects for the delivery of, for example,
examination papers, course notes and institutional policy documents;
- research projects which will not produce digital/electronic
resources;
- development of online catalogues or search engines for digital
objects;
- development of access aids to institutional Intra/Internet sites
which do not, in themselves, deliver digitised cultural collections; and
- projets outside of the Australian cultural community.
Last modified: August 09 2004.