{"id":2845,"date":"2025-09-08T10:57:53","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:57:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:18:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T06:18:39","slug":"asa-wa-pd-day-creating-the-archives-toolkit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/menogue.com\/evan\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/09\/08\/asa-wa-pd-day-creating-the-archives-toolkit\/","title":{"rendered":"ASA WA PD day \u2013 Creating the Archives\u2019 toolkit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>5th September 2025, UWA Reid Library seminar room<\/p>\n<h2>Collection Management<\/h2>\n<h3>Annie Cameron, UWA Berndt Museum<\/h3>\n<p>WA indigenous language centres \u2013 indigenous data sovereignty and cultural policies.<\/p>\n<p>AI is not a thing if you don\u2019t have your records digitised \u2013 reflecting remote language centres, who may not even have archive collection practices.<\/p>\n<p>Provence to include the agencies\/locations the record has moved through in it\u2019s lifetime. e.g. marriage certificates in the Bernt Museum that came from the Moore River settlement.<\/p>\n<p>Appraising records:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Uniqueness<\/li>\n<li>Social, cultural, political value<\/li>\n<li>Resources to identify material \u2013 the original places where objects came from is the best place for understanding description and context.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thinking through the problems of collections series organised by format vs provenance \u2013 difficult to link records and objects to have the entire story if by format.<\/p>\n<p>Terry Janke ICIP website <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrijanke.com.au\/icip\">https:\/\/www.terrijanke.com.au\/icip<\/a> &#8211; WA University session (w\/ Library Research Staff???) Blog: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terrijanke.com.au\/post\/keeping-our-data-strong-upholding-indigenous-data-sovereignty-through-data-sharing-agreements\">Keeping Our Data Strong: Upholding Indigenous Data Sovereignty Through Data Sharing Agreements<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Rebecca Balling \u2013 Wanneroo Community History Centre<\/h3>\n<p>Digitisation project with DCWA. Sun City Yanchep News digitisation, DCWA delivering PDF as access copies, OCR\u2019d with <a href=\"https:\/\/tesseract-ocr.github.io\/\">Tesseract documentation | Tesseract OCR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using Significance 2.0 for assessing items for digitisation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mgnsw.org.au\/sector\/resources\/online-resources\/collection-management\/what-is-significance-2-0-and-why-use-it\/\">What is Significance 2.0 and why use it? &#8211; MGNSW<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mgnsw.org.au\/sector\/resources\/online-resources\/collection-management\/significance-2-0\/\">Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections &#8211; MGNSW<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov.au\/what-we-do\/museums-libraries-and-galleries\/significance-20\">Significance 2.0 | Office for the Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.arts.gov.au\/news\/share-your-views-updated-guide-assessing-significance-cultural-objects\">Share your views on an updated guide for assessing the significance of cultural objects | Office for the Arts<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In <a href=\"https:\/\/collectionswa.net.au\/organisations\/city-wanneroo-museum-collections\">CollectionsWA<\/a> and the Wanneroo Library Catalogue (running on Spydus)<\/p>\n<h3>Gerard Foley, SRO Senior Archivist, Access<\/h3>\n<p>&lt;via video playback&gt;<\/p>\n<h2>Evaluating Archival Management Systems \u2013 Piers Higgs, GAIA Resources<\/h2>\n<p>ICAG \u2013 descriptive vs Australian series systems (we\u2019re an island of description)<\/p>\n<p>ISAD-G standard<\/p>\n<p>Records in Context<\/p>\n<p>International vendors \/ open source build to ISAD-G, rarely have Australian series.<\/p>\n<h2>DCWA tour<\/h2>\n<p>Ben Heath, Photographic Digitisation Officer<\/p>\n<p>Very insightful to illustrate the differing effects of lighting on embossed, damaged and foil paper as well as 3D objects e.g. key to Winthrop Hall.<\/p>\n<p>Flat, omnidirectional lighting is the FADGI standard, but it can lose shadow detail from the raised edges of embossed papers. DCWA will sometimes supply captures using alternate lighting e.g. raked to show shadows.<\/p>\n<h2>Repair and restoration in Photoshop using AI \u2013 Mark Brogan<\/h2>\n<p>Repair vs restore vs enhancement \u2013 what are we comfortable with in the archives?<\/p>\n<p>ref supplied slides \u2013 a demo of photo enhancement tools in Photoshop.<\/p>\n<h2>Handwriting recognition using AI \u2013 Arooba Maqsood ECU PhD student<\/h2>\n<p>Base training will affect what\u2019s possible in recognising different languages. e.g. German handwriting differs from English which does not contain umlauts.<\/p>\n<h2>Post digitisation \u2013 Meg Travers, GAIA<\/h2>\n<h2>Panel discussion \u2013 records, data and evidentiary value<\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>5th September 2025, UWA Reid Library seminar room Collection Management Annie Cameron, UWA Berndt Museum WA indigenous language centres \u2013 indigenous data sovereignty and cultural policies. 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