Posts Tagged digital preservation

April 2012 – Link Roundup

Posted on May 2, 2012 by

Some handy links we have found online…….

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Stitched up

Posted on April 8, 2011 by

We recently discovered a little gem in our collection – a probate document that had been torn into several pieces and then hand-stitched back together with great care and skill.

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Digital State archives

Posted on February 21, 2011 by

We are very excited to finally be able to announce that funding has been secured that will allow us to start a three year project to develop and implement a digital State archives solution for the New South Wales Government.

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Digitisation and the Small Archives

Posted on May 24, 2010 by

As the Archivist in an organisation whose core business is education, providing digital access to the collection has been primarily a response to providing access for the Archivist rather than a desire to reach a wider audience.

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What is metadata?

Posted on September 1, 2009 by

Metadata works much the same way as a card index catalogue – it provides information about a particular object. This information can be quite basic or incredibly detailed, layered and complex depending on your needs.

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Prioritising digitisation for preservation and access

Posted on July 2, 2009 by

At State Records we have a small Digitisation Program. Budget constraints, staff resources and an archival collection significant in both historical value and size means we can’t digitise everything. Sound familiar? Small as it may be, the program has an important function within our organisation for it assists in the preservation of records and increases [...]

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Preserving your digital data [video]

Posted on June 16, 2009 by

At the recent Association of Canadian Archivists Conference in May, Professor Seamus Ross from the University of Toronto gave an entertaining talk on approaches to digitisation and handling of digital materials. He showed this video, which he was involved in developing, Digital Preservation and Nuclear Disaster: An Animation featuring ‘Digi Man’. It is a lot [...]

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