Resources
Presentations
Unlocking Cultural Collections through Digitisation Webinar
Held on 11th October 2020 by Western Australian University Librarians (WAUL)
Presentations:
- Introduction to the Digitisation Centre of WA by Scott Nicholls, Associate University Librarian, Research and Collections (UWA)
- Using digital collections in research by Professor Ben Smith, Associate Dean, Research (UWA)
- Collection prioritisation by Peter Green, Associate Director, Collections, Systems & Infrastructure (Curtin University)
- Digital asset management by Daniel Rozas Nunez, Manager Collection Care (SLWA)
Digital Transitions Cultural Heritage Roundtable 2023
Held on 1st November 2023 by Digital Transitions (DT)
Theme: Celebrating the Real-World Impact of the Digitisation Community
Speaker presentations are available on DT's website for free: https://heritage-digitaltransitions.com/roundtable-2023-speaker-presentations-access/. Registration required.
Featured presentation from the Digitisation Centre of WA:
De-risking Cultural Heritage Digitisation by Ben Heath, Digitisation Officer of the DCWA (UWA)
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
Get in touch
Locations
Main digitisation laboratory
Level 2, Barry J Marshall Library (Room 2.14, Building 446),
University of Western Australia
Crawley campus.
Dispatch room
Ground level Barry J Marshall Library for receiving and storing collections.
DCWA sound studio
Level 2 of the State Library of Western Australia in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge