{"results":[{"title":"The DCWA Symposium 2025 - Digitisation and beyond","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/presentation-2-wide-2-copy-card.png","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/december/the-dcwa-symposium-2025---digitisation-and-beyond","publisheddate":"2025-12-18","summary":"
The DCWA held its 2025 Symposium in the State Library of WA Theatre on the 9th of December 2025, opening discussions and engaging our audience with the current activities of the Centre. Our partners and clients presented their work and collections that the Centre has assisted in digitising, which reflect WA’s unique culture and diverse communities.","sxaTags":[{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Symposium explores research and community engagement around digitised collections","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/ver22-web-size-dcwa-symposium-2024-group.png","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/november/symposium-explores-research-and-community-engagement-around-digitised-collections","publisheddate":"2025-11-14","summary":"The DCWA Symposium 2025 celebrates the Centre’s achievements and new research and community projects that derive from the digitised collections.","sxaTags":[{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Why Digital Preservation of Cultural Heritage Collection Matters","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2025/summerhayes-drawing-card---522pxh.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2025/june/why-digital-preservation-of-cultural-heritage-collection-matters","publisheddate":"2025-06-10","summary":"Digitisation plays an important role in increasing the visibility and accessibility of cultural heritage collections. The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia has worked with Collections WA to support this mission by preserving these valuable materials in high-quality digital formats, ensuring they are kept for future generations.","sxaTags":[{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Partnerships"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Digitisation Centre of Western Australia Inaugural Symposium 2024","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2024/dcwa-2024-symposium-strelley.jpeg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2024/november/digitisation-centre-of-western-australia-inaugural-symposium-2024","publisheddate":"2024-11-14","summary":"The DCWA heartily welcomes everyone to the Inaugural Symposium to discover and celebrate the digital collections in WA","sxaTags":[{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"}]},{"title":"Digitisation of the Melanesian Film Archive - partnership between the Digitisation Centre of WA and Curtin University","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2024/dcwa-day-1-photos-85.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2024/april/digitisation-of-the-melanesian-film-archive---partnership-between-the-digitisation-centre-of-wa-and-curtin-university","publisheddate":"2024-04-18","summary":"The Digitisation Centre of Western Australia has recently completed the digitisation of the first tranche of films from the Melanesian Film Archive at Curtin University. This has demonstrated the Centre’s capability of scanning films to archival standard, and made those culturally significant films more accessible for research and study with their digital format.","sxaTags":[{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"Partnerships"}]},{"title":"To preserve and protect","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2024/paper-archives-being-scanned-at-the-digitisation-centre-of-wa_card.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2024/march/to-preserve-and-protect","publisheddate":"2024-03-20","summary":"
Just one year into its operation, a multi-university digitisation project is rapidly producing new insights into WA’s history.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Quick News"},{"title":"School of Social Sciences"},{"title":"Science and Environment"},{"title":"DCWA"},{"title":"Digital"},{"title":"Uniview"}]},{"title":"Celebrate the 2023 World Day for Audiovisual Heritage","featuredimage":"/news/-/media/project/uwa/uwa/newsroom/card-image/2023/dcwa-day-1-photos-90.jpg","link":"https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2023/october/celebrate-the-2023-world-day-for-audiovisual-heritage","publisheddate":"2023-10-27","summary":"Digitisation Centre of WA joins archivies around the world to celebrate their work in protecting, preserving and improving access to audiovisual materials.","sxaTags":[{"title":"Digital"},{"title":"Arts-and-Culture"},{"title":"Our-community"},{"title":"Research"},{"title":"DCWA"}]}]}