About us
History
Jan ’20 – April ‘22
Phase 1
LIEF grant was successful, with $1,100,00 provided to establish the centre. Contributions were also made by five Western Australian Universities, the State Library of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum. This marked the start of phase 1 of the Centre. Thanks to this extraordinary support from all those involved, the Digitisation Centre was able to purchase a comprehensive range of world-class archival standard digitisation equipment and install these in custom-designed archival digitisation facilities. The University of Western Australia donated a large laboratory room and paid for the custom refurbishment of this room to accommodate the bulk of the equipment of the Centre. The Digitisation Centre has also come into an agreement with the State Library of Western Australia for a shared access to the audio studio facilities in the Library. DCWA team began digitising priority projects from partner collections and worked toward becoming a fully operational centre.
May ’22 – present
Phase 2
The Centre expanded into a fee-based digitisation service and began expanding its team and services.
Meet the team
The Digitisation Centre is broken into three key sections: DCWA Governance Board, DCWA Steering Committee and the digitisation team.
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DCWA Governance Board
The DCWA Governance Board is responsible for the strategic management and utilisation of the DCWA.
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DCWA Steering Committee
The Steering Committee comprises of members from all project partner organisations. The Committee is responsible for overseeing the infrastructure and operations of DCWA. The DCWA coordinator meets with the committee regularly to discuss priorities, key changes and goals for the coming projects.
Current membership:
Chair, University of Western Australia Professor Benjamin Smith Curtin University Professor Lucy Montgomery Edith Cowan University Professor Paul Arthur Murdoch University Dean Aszkielowicz WA Museum Mr Evan Rogers State Library of WA Ms Sophie Farrar Curtin University Library Ms Kate Conway ECU Library Ms Constance Wiebrands Murdoch Library Ms Claire Fletcher Notre Dame Library Mr Stephen McVey UWA Library Mr Scott Nicholls Co-opted Member Assoc Professor Andrew Woods Respresentative of the Linkage Grant project Professor Helena Grehan DCWA Coordinator Ms Janet Luk Executive Officer (UWA) Ms Debra Paisley -
DCWA Digitisation Team
The digitisation team are the staff behind the daily operations of the Digitisation Centre. Each member brings distinctive skills that allow DCWA to run efficiently, maintain international standards in digitisation, and build relationships with collection custodians.
Coordinator: Janet Luk
Digitisation Officer: Ben Heath
Digitisation Officer: Jameson Feakes
Digitisation Officer: Maureen Blackford
Digitisation Officer: Emma Stokes
DCWA Partners
This Centre emerges from an innovative collaboration between the Western Australian universities, the State Library of Western Australia and the Western Australian Museum.
The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia is an Australian Research Council funded project: LE200100123
Get in touch
Locations
Main digitisation laboratory
Level 2, Barry J Marshall Library (Room 2.14, Building 446),
University of Western Australia
Crawley campus.
Dispatch room
Ground level Barry J Marshall Library for receiving and storing collections.
DCWA sound studio
Level 2 of the State Library of Western Australia in the Perth Cultural Centre, Northbridge