Content tagged with Digitisation

Innovative Audiotape Device Designed In-house

The innovative audio-cassete cleaning device that was designed and manufactured in-house at AIATSIS. Communities and cultural...

Blog post - 24 Oct 2019

Keeping our AV cogs turning

Our engineering section archives and maintains the devices and ancillary machines that are needed to play back the sound and vision recorded on...

Blog post - 24 Oct 2018

Digitising the AIATSIS lantern slide collections

Lantern slides are a unique format that were in wide use from the 18th to mid-20th century and allowed glass photographic transparencies to be...

Blog post - 5 Sep 2018

Photographing large paintings in the Stanner Room

On an evening in early March 2018 members of the AIATSIS Photographic Digitisation team started to clear furniture out from the Stanner Room, the...

Blog post - 19 Jun 2018

Audiovisual Heritage of Torres Strait Singing and Dancing

World Day for Audiovisual Heritage raises awareness about the importance and vulnerability of audiovisual collections. It is predicted that the...

Blog post - 17 Oct 2017

AIATSIS and IRCA formalise ties

The permanent preservation of, and access to, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' cultural materials is the focus of a recently signed...

News - 12 May 2017

Beginning to heal; the National Sorry Day Committee working papers

In June 2016, Reverend Dr John P Brown donated his working files from the time he was the non-Indigenous Co-Chair of the National Sorry Day Committee...

Blog post - 11 Apr 2017

AIATSIS digitisation specialists visit New Zealand

Late last year, Daryl Ciubal and I were fortunate enough to have the opportunity to travel to Wellington, New Zealand for a week as part of the...

Blog post - 24 Feb 2017