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