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1995 National Preservation Office (NPO) Conference
Multimedia Preservation: Capturing The Rainbow

27-30 November 1995, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Copies of the The full printed proceedings of the 1995 NPO conference are available from the National Library of Australia, Sales and Distribution - telephone 1800 800100 or E-mail: nlasales@nla.gov.au to place an order.

  • 1995 Conference Report
  • Formal Opening / The Honourable Matt Foley, Queensland Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Industrial Relations and the Arts

Over the Rainbow: Overviewing the Scene

  • Culture and Cultural Memory: Challenges of the Electronic Era / Eric Wainwright, Deputy Director-General, National Library of Australia
  • In Search of the Rainbow: Conference Agenda and Strategy / Jan Lyall, Director, National Preservation Office, National Library of Australia

Painting the Rainbow: Creating Australia's Electronic Heritage

  • Keynote address: Electronic Publishing: Developments in and Orientation of the Industry / Steven Schwalger, Executive Officer, Australasian Interactive Multimedia Association
  • Developments in Networked Distributed Computing and Delivery of Australia's Heritage Electronically / David Keightley, Project Manager, HCI/Visualisation, CSIRO Division of Information Technology
  • Are We Ready to Capture the Rainbow? Attitudes to Electronic Delivery of Information / Carole Alcock, Department of Information and Communication Technology, University of Wollongong
  • Research in Multimedia Preservation. Will it Lead to the Golden Pot? / Gülten Wagner, Department of Library and Information Science, Edith Cowan University

The Distributed National Collection in a Digital Environment

  • Keynote address: Digitisation Projects for Access and Preservation: International Trends and Practices / Nancy Elkington, Assistant Director, Preservation Services, Research Libraries Group
  • Keynote address: Libraries, Museums, and Archives in the Digital Future: the Blurring of Institutional Distinctions / W. Boyd Rayward, Dean of Professional Studies, University of New South Wales
  • Cultural Policy, New Media Technologies and the Implications for Heritage Preservation / Dawn Casey, Assistant Secretary, Heritage Branch, Department of Communications and the Arts
  • The Evolution of DNC: Pursuing a Model for Preservation in a Networked Environment / Cliff Law, Director, Distributed National Collection Office, National Library of Australia
  • Legislating the Rainbow: Legal Deposit, Access and Distribution in a Digital Environment / Derek Whitehead, Director of Collection Management, State Library of Victoria

Capturing the Rainbow: Preservation of Electronic Media

  • Keynote address: Preserving Digital Objects: Recurrent Needs and Challenges / Michael Lesk, Executive Director, Computer Science Research, Bellcore
  • Guidelines for the Management of Electronic Records, Documents and Publications: a TF2001 Progress Report / Keith Parrott, Convenor TF2001 Management of Material in Electronic Format Working Party, Australian Archives
  • Long-Term Management Issues in the Preservation of Electronic Information / Maggie Exon, School of Information and Library Studies, Curtin University of Technology
  • Preservation Roles and Responsibilities of Collecting Institutions in the Digital Age / Maggie Jones, Director of Collection Management and Retrieval Services, National Library of Australia
  • Networked Information Resources: Collection Development, Cataloguing and Preservation in the National Library of Australia / Margaret Henty, Acting Director, Technical Services, National Library of Australia
  • Preserving Readership of Electronic Works / Bob Jansen, Principal Research Scientist, Division of Information Technology, CSIRO

Legalities of Multimedia Preservation: Master Class

  • Towards the Copyright Act 2000: Implications of and for Digital Preservation and Access / Jamie Wodetzki, Research Officer, Australian Council of Libraries and Information Services
  • Protecting and Exploiting Intellectual Property Rights / Michael Paterson, Solicitor, Picton-Warlow and Co.

Managing the Digital Approach

  • The Longevity of Electronic Media: from Electronic Artefact to Electronic Object / Ross Harvey, Division of Information Studies, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore)
  • The Ferguson, 1840-45 Project: A Hybrid Approach / Ross Coleman, Collection Management Librarian, University of Sydney Library
  • Transfer from Analog to Digital: Selecting a System / Colin Webb, Manager of Technical Preservation, National Library of Australia
  • Integrating Multimedia into Libraries: Management and Access Issues / Gülçin Cribb, Audiovisual Librarian, University of Queensland

Dabbling in the Pot of Gold: Digitising for Access and Preservation

  • Keynote address: Digitising to Preserve Access: International Developments and Technical Requirements / Michael Alexander, Document and Image Processing, Computing and Telecomms, The British Library
  • Demonstration: Making it Happen: An Industry View - An interactive session in which delegates and a leading commercial alliance can exchange information about digital capture, storage, and management of photographic images / Bronte Turner, Director, Bridgehead Australia and Dale Turner, General Manager, Bridgehead Australia

Visiting the Rainbow: Australian Case Studies

  • Electronic Publishing Standards: a Report from the AVCC Working Party on Electronic Publishing / Neil McLean, Assistant Librarian, Macquarie University Library
  • Introducing Australian Digitisation Case Studies / Alan Howell, Preservation Manager, State Library of New South Wales
  • Poster presentations of Digitisation Case Studies
  • Digitisation Projects at the State Library of New South Wales: An Update / Alan Ventress, Manager, Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
  • The Italian-Australian Records Project / Ilma Martinuzzi O'Brien, Office for Research, Victorian University of Technology
  • AIATSIS Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia on CD-ROM / Carol Cooper, Acting Library Director, AIATSIS
  • Digitisation and Restoration of Sound / Mark Nizette, Manager of Preservation Services, National Film and Sound Archive
  • And There was Gold at the End of the Rainbow: Developing an Architectural Image Database / Helen Darch, Projects Manager, Central Library, University of Queensland
  • The Benefits of Electronic Surrogates / Ian Walker, Managing-Director, Search Tech
  • The 16 mm Collection Review Project of the State Film Centre of Victoria / Trish Stokes, Project Manager, State Film Centre of Victoria
  • Preservation of the National Library of Australia's Oral History Collection / Kevin Bradley, Manager, Sound Preservation and Technical Services, National Library of Australia
  • A Cautionary Tale: Implementing the Project Visualising Conservation / Wendy Smith, National Centre for Cultural Heritage Science Studies, University of Canberra

Summing Up

  • The Rainbow Down Under: the View from Up Over / Michael Lesk, Executive Director, Computer Science Research, Bellcore
  • Painting the Rainbow in Australia: the Way Ahead / Richard Jones, Vice President of Research and Development, Computer Power Software Group
  • Draft Principles for Access to and Preservation of Australian Digital Objects [FINAL VERSION] / Jan Lyall, Director, National Preservation Office, National Library of Australia

Identifying Common Principles

  • Summary of Findings of US Task Force on Archiving of Digital Information / Nancy Elkington, Assistant Director, Preservation Services, Research Libraries Group
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