Above: Illustrated front cover from The Queenslander, November 8, 1934
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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
- Cataloguing images - Guidelines for contributors
- 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 - Metadata for digital objects and other specified resource types, version 1.5
- State Library of Queensland Digital Standard 2 - Digital capture & format, version 3.0
Cataloguing resources for indexing images
- Australian Pictorial Thesaurus (APT) [new window]
- Library of Congress Name Authorities (LCNA) [new window]
- Australian Place Name Search [new window] 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 [new window] page, follow the 'Search Brisbane Images' link.
- The way we were [new window] - a pictorial history of Queensland taken from the archives of the Courier-Mail and The Sunday Mail
- Digilib Queensland towns and cities [new window] - University of Queensland
- History Clicks! [new window] - Logan City Libraries
- Images of Early Brisbane Alcock Collection [new window] - University of Queensland
- JCU Picture Archive [new window] - James Cook University
- PictureAustralia [new window] - a national image library of over 2,000,000 digital images
- Picture Gold Coast [new window] - Gold Coast City Council Library Service
- Picture Queensland [new window] - State Library of Queensland
- Snapshot: history in focus [new window] - Redcliffe City Library
- Tourism Queensland Image Library [new window]
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: 21st March 2011
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