Projects
The Centre has a ten-year vision to digitise the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Collections of its partners. It also offers a fee-based customised digitisation service for anyone with specific high quality digitisation needs.
The collections that the Centre digitises are divided into the following categories:
- collections identified for priority digitisation under the original DCWA LIEF grant application,
- collections associated with the the ‘Life after Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage’ linkage grant project, and
- local community and private collections.
LIEF Grant Collections
Collections from UWA, one of the DCWA's partners, are now made available on UWA Collected. UWA Collected is a new online service for storing, preserving and exploring the University’s digital collections together in one place. It is one part of the University's strategy to invest in data-intensive discovery. As UWA and the Digitisation Centre of Western Australia work to digitise the University’s collections, UWA Collected makes them discoverable and becomes a database of reference for communities and researchers.
Visit collected.uwa.edu.au to discover more.
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Archaeology Collections
35mm slide and negative collections documenting rock art from various parts of Australia – UWA
Photo credit: Mr Mike Donaldson
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Ethnography Collections
- Birrindudu Drawings from the Berndt Museum - UWA
- Blacking Collection of Indigenous African Music - UWA
- The Alpers Melanesian Film Archive - Curtin University
- The Nonja Peters collection of migrant cultural heritage artefacts - Edith Cowan University
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Development of Western Australian Society
- Archival documents relating to the Women’s Rights Movement from the Irene Greenwood Collection - Murdoch University
- The Summerhayes Architecture Collection - Curtin University
- WA Printmakers Collection – Edith Cowan University
Other collections
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‘Life after Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA's Vulnerable Cultural Heritage’ linkage grant project
- The Aboriginal Language Collection from Kimberly Language Resource Centre, Wangka Maya Pilbara Aboriginal Language Centre and Mirima Dawang Woorlab-gerring Language and Culture Centre
- The Museum of Performing Arts Collection (Arts and Culture Trust) related to His Majesty’s Theatre
HMT1950-006
Sheet Music from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ 1950. JC Williamson Theatres Ltd.
Museum of Performing Arts
HMT1950-007
Sheet Music from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’1950. JC Williamson Theatres Ltd.
Museum of Performing Arts
HMT1950-009
Musical Number from ‘Annie Get Your Gun’ His Majesty’s Theatre 1950.
Museum of Performing Arts
HMT1962-015
Ascot Scene from ‘My Fair Lady’ His Majesty’s Theatre 1962.
Museum of Performing ArtsHistoric images of the His Majesty Theatre digitised through the DCWA are now on display in shopfront windows of the theatre building during the 'His Maj in the Limelight' event from 21 - 28 April. The Theatre lights up every evening from dusk to midnight in a light and sound projection installation (on a 5 minute loop) that celebrates its 120 years of history.
For more information about the event, visit: https://visitperth.com/events/his-maj-in-the-limelight.
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Local community and private collections
- White Family album: items belonged to Mr Shirley White – a prominent business man in Subiaco and former Mayor and Councillor at Subiaco in the early 1900 to 1920.
Photo Courtesy: Subiaco Museum
