Digitisation resources
- Standards and guidelines
- Cataloguing resources for indexing images
- Picture Queensland digitisation manual
- Sample copyright and intellectual property rights forms
- Sample selection criteria for digitisation
- Digital image collections (Queensland images)
- Picture Queensland contributor resources
- General digitisation resources
Standards and guidelines
Picture Queensland
- Guidelines for cataloguing images using the Picture Queensland web form
- PDF format [new window
244 kb]
- HTML format
- Picture Queensland standard for image capture and format [new window
71 kb]
State Library of Queensland
The following State Library standards are available from the web page - Policies, standards and protocols:
- State Library of Queensland Digital Standard 1 - Cataloguing and metadata for digital images
- State Library of Queensland Digital Standard 2 - Digital capture, format & file naming, version 2.01
Cataloguing resources for indexing images
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT)
- Library of Congress Name Authorities (LCNA)
- Australian Place Name Search from Geoscience Australia
Picture Queensland digitisation manual
- Complete manual [new window 906 kb]
- Part 1 of manual [new window 382 kb]
- Part 2 of manual [new window 337 kb]
- Part 3 of manual [new window 225 kb]
Sample copyright and intellectual rights forms
- Receipt of donation [new window 42 kb]
- Receipt of donation instructions [new window 42 kb]
- Assignment of non-exclusive copyright [new window 39 kb]
Sample selection criteria for digitisation
- Sample selection criteria for digitisation [new window 183 kb] - provided by Gold Coast City Council Library Service
Digital image collections (Queensland images)
- Brisbane Images - Brisbane City Council Library. From the library catalogue page, follow the "Search Brisbane Images" link.
- Digilib Queensland towns and cities - University of Queensland
- History Clicks! - Logan City Libraries
- Images of Early Brisbane Alcock Collection - University of Queensland
- JCU Picture Archive - James Cook University
- PictureAustralia - a national image library of over 2,000,000 digital images
- Picture Caboolture - Caboolture Shire Libraries
- Picture Gold Coast - Gold Coast City Council Library Service
- Picture Maroochy - Maroochy Libraries
- Picture Queensland - State Library of Queensland
- Snapshot: history in focus - Redcliffe City Library
- Thuringowa Images - Thuringowa City Libraries
- Tourism Queensland Image Library
- Window to the past - Caloundra City Libraries
Picture Queensland contributor resources
- Contributor resources - materials for organisations contributing to Picture Queensland
General digitisation resources
- State Library of Queensland's NetLinks for digitisation - authoritative websites on all aspects of digitisation including metadata, scanning, journals, etc.
- State Library of Queensland's NetLinks for copyright - authoritative websites on copyright.
- State Library's books on digitisation (searches the State Library's catalogue)
Last updated: 17th January 2008
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