The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia (DCWA) will be holding another symposium this year on December 9th, 2025, in the State Library of WA Theatre. Academics, collection managers and curators, and even students and artists are all welcome to attend. The Symposium will highlight the Centre’s latest development and new projects that derive from the digitised collections processed by the Centre. You will hear presentations from a range of distinguished individuals from different scholastic and collection management backgrounds, with Professor Clint Bracknell from the University of Western Australia as our keynote speaker. As one of the chief investigator of the ARC linkage project named, ‘Life After Digitisation: Future-Proofing WA’s Vulnerable Cultural Heritage’, professor Bracknell will touch on the significance of cultural collections across the whole of Western Australia, and specifically on the preservation Indigenous cultural materials and the management of Indigenous language data.

Other topics and collections that will be covered by the 2025 Symposium include:

• Australian Migration History – Nonja Peters’s digital archives
• Digitisation of Irene Greenwood collection at Murdoch University
• Aboriginal language revitalisation in WA through digitisation
• Preserving and enabling access of collections at local museums
• Digitisation project planning – copyright and digital preservation needs
• The potential of AI in cultural heritage digitisation
  
  Follow this link to purchase a ticket via Eventbrite: DCWA Second Annual Symposium 2025
  
  The symposium will be held on Tuesday 9th December from 9:30am to 3:30pm at State Library of WA Theatre (25 Francis Street, Perth). If you are curious to learn more about the digitisation and preservation of archived materials in the DCWA, feel free to email [email protected] or visit https://www.uwa.edu.au/digitisation-centre-of-western-australia.