George(s) Lessard on 19 Mar 2001 05:12:28 -0000 |
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[Nettime-bold] Picture That: Australia in the Forefront |
Picture That: Australia in the Forefront by Debbie Campbell http://firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_1/campbell/index.html "... Australia has recently released a new Web service for the discovery of its cultural heritage in pictures. The service, called PictureAustralia, http://www.pictureaustralia.org/ was built using a combination of standard metadata, Z39.50 and XML. However, the most significant building block has been collaboration. An Australian collaboration of libraries, museums, archives, and galleries is revealing the wealth of the nation's unique pictorial collections. Using simple Web technologies, the State Library of New South Wales, State Library of Tasmania, State Library of Victoria, Australian War Memorial, National Library of Australia, National Archives of Australia, and Fryer Library of the University of Queensland have provided a single entry point to their digitised images of art, photographs, and artifacts...." :-) Message ends, Signature begins (-: George Lessard, living @ 61.10N 94.05W Member, ICANN @Large Member # 375469 Comments should be sent to mediamentor_no_spam_@cyberdude.com MSN Messanger address lessard99_no_spam_@hotmail.com [Remove _no_spam_ from addresses to e-mail] "Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T.S. Eliot... "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping in a closed room with a mosquito..." African Proverb ICQ # 8501081 Moderator Creative-Radio http://www.eGroups.com/list/creative-radio MediaMentor Weblog http://www.eGroups.com/list/mediamentor Homepages http://media002.tripod.com Caveat Lector, Disclaimers & (c) info http://members.tripod.com/~media002/disclaimer.htm Semi-random signature quotes follow: A day without freelancing is a day to keep secret from the bank manager. _______________________________________________ Nettime-bold mailing list Nettime-bold@nettime.org http://www.nettime.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/nettime-bold