Projects

The Centre has a ten-year vision to digitise the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Collections of its partners. It also offers a fee-based customised digitisation service for anyone with specific high quality digitisation needs.

The collections that the Centre digitises are divided into the following categories:

collections identified for priority digitisation under the original DCWA LIEF grant application,
collections associated with the the ‘Life after Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage’ linkage grant project, and
local community and private collections.

LIEF Grant Collections

Collections from UWA, one of the DCWA's partners, are now made available on UWA Collected. UWA Collected is a new online service for storing, preserving and exploring the University’s digital collections together in one place. It is one part of the University's strategy to invest in data-intensive discovery. As UWA and the Digitisation Centre of Western Australia work to digitise the University’s collections, UWA Collected makes them discoverable and becomes a database of reference for communities and researchers.

Visit collected.uwa.edu.au to discover more.

Archaeology Collections

35mm slide and negative collections documenting rock art from various parts of Australia – UWA
Photo credit: Mr Mike Donaldson
Ethnography Collections
Birrindudu Drawings from the Berndt Museum - UWA

Blacking Collection of Indigenous African Music - UWA

The Alpers Melanesian Film Archive - Curtin University

The Nonja Peters collection of migrant cultural heritage artefacts - Edith Cowan University
Development of Western Australian Society
Archival documents relating to the Women’s Rights Movement from the Irene Greenwood Collection - Murdoch University

The Summerhayes Architecture Collection - Curtin University

WA Printmakers Collection – Edith Cowan University

Other collections

‘Life after Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage’ linkage grant project
The Aboriginal Language Collection from Kimberly Language Resource Centre, Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre and Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre

The Museum of Performing Arts Collection (Arts and Culture Trust) related to His Majesty’s Theatre

HMT1950-006
Sheet Music from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ 1950. JC Williamson Theatres Ltd.
Museum of Performing Arts

HMT1950-007
Sheet Music from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’1950. JC Williamson Theatres Ltd.
Museum of Performing Arts

HMT1950-009
Musical Number from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ His Majesty’s Theatre 1950.
Museum of Performing Arts

HMT1962-015
Ascot Scene from ‘My Fair Lady’ His Majesty’s Theatre 1962.
Museum of Performing Arts

Historic images of the His Majesty Theatre digitised through the DCWA are now on display in shopfront windows of the theatre building during the 'His Maj in the Limelight' event from 21 - 28 April. The Theatre lights up every evening from dusk to midnight in a light and sound projection installation (on a 5 minute loop) that celebrates its 120 years of history.

For more information about the event, visit: https://visitperth.com/events/his-maj-in-the-limelight.
Local community and private collections
Subiaco Museum photographs

White Family album: items belonged to Mr Shirley White – a prominent business man in Subiaco and former Mayor and Councillor at Subiaco in the early 1900 to 1920.

Photo Courtesy: Subiaco Museum