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Retaining Historical and Cultural Heritage through Photographic Digitisation
Many old photographs and negatives can degrade over time due to factors like exposure to light, humidity, and temperature fluctuations. Most traditional photographs, such as black-and-white prints and colour photographs, rely on light-sensitive chemicals to capture...
Is your Microform Deteriorating?
Microforms, such as microfilm, microfiche and aperture cards will deteriorate over time due to factors like aging, moisture, and handling. Ageing: Microforms are typically made of cellulose acetate, which are susceptible to ageing. Overtime, the base material can...
Emerging from the Primordial Technological Ooze
Suffering from non-integrated systems that operated as part of the “primordial technological ooze“ the University of Newcastle needed a single system that would make all their digital collections accessible and easy to engage with online. After an extensive global...
Over 10,000 microfilm reels digitised by DatacomIT – Australian Joint Copying Project (NLA)
We’re thrilled to be part of such a significant project. The Australian Joint Copying Project (AJCP) is a collection of unique historical material relating to Australia, New Zealand and Pacific dating from 1560 to 1984. AJCP located and filmed thousands of...
Is the recommended life of your Council Microform expiring?
From early 1970s through to the late 90s councils preserved building and development application records by transferring them to microfilm and microfiche for archival purposes. The microform material has a recommended archival life as low as 30 to 40 years where...
University of Divinity Increase Productivity through Digitisation
The University of Divinity promotes the highest standards of scholarship in theology, philosophy and ministry with eleven Colleges based in Melbourne, Adelaide and Sydney. Through scholarship the University aims to address the issues of the contemporary world. Founded...
University of Newcastle chooses the CopiBook Open System Book Scanner
Our two Marks (Mark Trippolt and Mark Anzellotti, DatacomIT technical engineers) had the pleasure of installing the latest CopiBook Open System Scanner for the lovely ladies at the University of Newcastle. They spent 2 days assembling and training the staff on the...
Richard Wilson, BDM at DatacomIT in Conversation with Gale
We’re thrilled and honoured to have been invited to sit (virtually) with Gale to discuss DatacomIT and our philosophy with our very own Richard Wilson leading the discussion. Richard Wilson (BDM at DatacomIT) is passionate about the digital preservation of rare and...
Digitising Large Fragile Material is our Specialty!
The National Library of Australia holds the greatest collection in the world of material relating to Australia and the Australian people. It ranges from the earliest European works about the Great Southern Land to the most current publications. The collection includes...
Wesley College Archives and Art Collections – The Power of Recollect to Unlock Knowledge in Archival Collections
Wesley College and DatacomIT are proud to announce the launch of their ‘Archives and Art Collections,’ Recollect site. Wesley College is proud of their history and traditions as a progressive, open-entry school, consistently celebrating religious tolerance, cultural...
Missed our Recollect webinar for Schools? Recording Now Available – featuring Wesley College
DatacomIT hosted an online webinar to showcase how schools are using the Collection Management System, Recollect, to manage and preserve cultural heritage and special collections. The webinar features a presentation from our guest speakers – Margot Vaughan, Curator of...
PRESS RELEASE – DatacomIT announces new partnership with NZMS
DatacomIT announces a significant and new partnership with New Zealand Micrographic Services (NZMS) to deliver Recollect, the online community engagement and collection management software to Australia. DatacomIT, the Australian industry leader in digitisation,...
DatacomIT wins $A3M Army digitisation deal (IDM Magazine 2020)
ARMY RECORDS GO DIGITAL A $A3 million tender win for Australia’s DatacomIT in August is the first step in a five-year program by the Department of Defence to backscan and digitise a massive paper archive of Army Personnel records held at Victoria Barracks Melbourne....
National Archives of Australia War Badge Registers Digitisation Project
Understanding the priceless historical significance of these records the National Archives approached DatacomIT to digitise this historic collection of bound registers. The objective was simple – preserve the material by eliminating any further deterioration through...
The new RBA digital archive – ‘Unreserved’
The Reserve Bank of Australia has a rich and unique archive that captures almost 2 centuries of primary source material about the Australia’s economic, financial and social history. To enhance public access to these records, DatacomIT has constructed a custom-built...
DatacomIT’s Canberra Digitisation Facility
The DatacomIT Canberra digitisation facility has operated successfully for over 4 months (Canberra – 2 Townsville Street, FYSHWICK). We are thrilled to reveal that our Canberra team, advanced digitisation equipment and processes are in place and working well, with...
The Higher Education Technology Agenda (THETA) conference 2023
DatacomIT is thrilled to be exhibiting at the upcoming THETA conference held at Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre in South Brisbane – April 16-19, 2023, titled ‘Making Waves’. The Higher Education Technology Agenda (THETA) is Australasia’s number one biennial...
Central West Libraries Festival of Arts Collection – Digitised and Ingested into Recollect
DatacomIT is pleased to have digitised the Central West Libraries Festival of Arts collection for the aim of integrating the digital collection into their already deployed Recollect site. DatacomIT assisted in ingesting the collection and are thrilled to see Central...
Trade-in & Save – Are you looking to upgrade your Firewire Microfilm Scanner?
IS YOUR MICROFILM SCANNER USING OLD FIREWIRE TECHNOLOGY? Simply trade-in your microfilm scanner using the old firewire technology to save on the latest Platinum Award Winning STViewScan 4 microfilm scanner – with an 18MP camera and Perfectview Software. The STViewScan...
Where to start with DIGITAL PRESERVATION webinar recording
With over 190 registrations and a significant attendance, our webinar on digital preservation was a huge success. It is undeniable that people working in libraries and archives are increasingly interested in digital preservation, but knowing where to start can be...