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.
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Archaeology Collections
35mm slide and negative collections documenting rock art from various parts of Australia – UWA
Photo credit: Mr Mike Donaldson
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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
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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
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‘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 ArtsHistoric 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.
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Local community and private collections
- 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
Research publications
Arthur, P.L., Hearn, L., Montgomery, L., Craig, H., Arbuckle, A. & Siemens, R. 2021. Open scholarship in Australia: A review of needs, barriers, and opportunities. Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36(4): 795–812. https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqaa063
Burrows, T. 2022. Linked Open Data and Medieval Studies: Some Lessons from the Mapping Manuscript Migrations Project. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 16(1): 64-77.
Champion, E. (ed.) 2021. Virtual Heritage: A Guide. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/bck
Champion, E., Kerr, R., Rahaman, H., McMeekin, D. 2021. Time-Layered Gamic Interaction with a Virtual Museum Template. In: Ioannides, M., Fink, E., Cantoni, L., Champion, E. (eds) Digital Heritage. Progress in Cultural Heritage: Documentation, Preservation, and Protection. EuroMed 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-73043-7_26
Champion, E., & Rahaman, H. 2020. Survey of 3D digital heritage repositories and platforms. Virtual Archaeology Review 11(23): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.4995/var.2020.13226
Duval, M., Smith, B.W., Gauchon, C., Mayer, L. & Malgat, C. 2020. “I have visited the Chauvet Cave”: the heritage experience of a rock art replica. International Journal of Heritage Studies 26(2): 142-162. https://doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2019.1620832
Hyvönen, E., Ikkala, E., Koho, M., Tuominen, J., Burrows T., Ransom, L. & Wijsman, H. 2021. Mapping Manuscript Migrations on the Semantic Web: A Semantic Portal and Linked Open Data Service for Premodern Manuscript Research. The Semantic Web – ISWC 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88361-4_36
Koho, M., Burrows, T., Hyvönen, E., Ikkala, E., Page, K., Ransom, L., Tuominen, J., Emery, D., Fraas, M., Heller, B., Lewis, D., Morrison, A., Porte, G., Thomson, E., Velios, A., & Wijsman, H. 2021. Harmonizing and publishing heterogeneous premodern manuscript metadata as Linked Open Data. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 73(2): 240–257. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24499
McDonald, J., Mulvaney, K., Beckett, E., Fairweather, J., Morrison, P., de Koning, S., Dortch, J. & Jeffries, P. 2021. Seeing and managing rock art at Nganjarli: a tourist destination in Murujuga National Park, Western Australia. Australian Archaeology 87(3): 268-293. https://doi.org/10.1080/03122417.2021.1978915
Smith, B.W., Black, J., Mulvaney, K.J. & Hoerlé, S. 2022. Monitoring rock art decay: archival image analysis of petroglyphs on Murujuga, Western Australia. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: https://doi.org/10.1080/13505033.2022.2131077
Smith, B.W., Black, J.L., Hoerlé, S., Ferland, M.A., Diffey, S.M., Neumann, J.T. & Geisler, T. 2022. The impact of industrial pollution on the rock art of Murujuga, Western Australia. Rock Art Research 39 (1): 3-14. http://www.ifrao.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/39-1-Murujuga.pdf
Tao, Y., Smith, B.W., Mosmann, P., Poon, K., & Walker, B. 2022. Searching for Moon Chow: a joint journey. Life Writing 20(1): 217-236. https://doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2022.2120593
Xu, Y, Tao. Y. & Smith, B.W. 2022. China’s emerging legislative and policy framework for safeguarding intangible cultural heritage. International Journal of Cultural Policy 28(5): 566-580. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2021.1993838