The Nyingarn Project (FREE)

Thursday 7 September 2023 | 10:00 am - 12:00 pm

Nyingarn (nyingarn.net) is a project that gives access to Indigenous language manuscripts. These manuscripts can be hard to get as they are often held in state and national institutions, some distance from the speakers of the languages. Some are written in handwriting which is difficult to read.

The Nyingarn project is working to locate and convert these manuscripts to text. In this workshop, participants will learn how to use Nyingarn; to transcribe and enrich their language manuscripts as well as search for material already available.

The workshops will be guided by Nyingarn team members working in their own languages.

Participants will learn the key features of the Nyingarn platform; joining manuscript images with existing transcriptions; producing transcriptions in minutes using optical character recognition (OCR); and editing and enriching their language material.

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Documenting Australian Society: How can we rethink our appraisal practices? (FREE)

Thursday 7 September 2023 | 1:30 - 4:00 pm

Join our presenters as they explore Documenting Australian Society: How can we rethink our appraisal practices?

Under the auspices of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program, representatives of key sectors, professional groups, institutions and community stakeholders held a summit meeting in Canberra in December 2018 to discuss how to improve and better coordinate the identification and preservation of the distributed national holdings of documentary heritage materials for the benefit of current and future generations of Australians.

GLAM panellists come together in this workshop to lead a discussion on documenting Australian community records for the future. How appraisal helps archivists achieve an equitable, fair, and all-encompassing representation of society has been a longstanding challenge. With institutional Records Disposal Authorities predominantly determining what to transfer into an archive, can other approaches better represent diverse communities?

Micro Image's Digitisation Facilities (FREE)

MICRO IMAGE are digitisation specialists with decades of experience in high-volume scanning, cultural heritage digitisation, data capture and document management. They are proud to be a digitisation partner for The National Archives of Australia, having been appointed to the digitisation panel for both Paper/Printed materials as well as Photographic. They work closely with NAA in both Melbourne and Canberra on high-volume digitisation of at-risk records. With a reputation for quality and project success Micro Image is a highly nimble and responsive partner. They offer tailored solutions for clients across government, GLAM, corporate, health and education sectors.

Micro Image is a digitisation panel member for The Reserve Bank of Australia and The State Library Victoria. Their clients also include Asahi, CUB, Aviva Energy, Mondelez, Goodyear Tyres, Department of Veterans’ Affairs and The Australian Defence Force. With the latest technology for photographic, film, microfiche and all paper digitisation they also provide clever data solutions to capture, index, organise and store data on output. Join them for a walk-around tour to see their Melbourne facility including their new Phase One cultural heritage camera - incredible resolution and super-efficient workflow.

Victorian Archives Centre (FREE)

Register for a "behind the scenes" tour of the Victorian Archives Centre. In addition to being the home of PROV, the Victorian Archives Centre has a number of tenants including the National Archives of Australia (collection storage and staff areas) and the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation (conservation labs and staff areas).

The tour will be led by staff from Public Record Office Victoria (PROV). It will encompass the repository (plus some highlights from the collection), the joint PROV-NAA reading room, records processing and issuing areas, and the Grimwade conservation laboratories.