Digital | SRO

Perth Metro Plans Project

The State Records Office has been digitising and geo-referencing Perth's historical Sewerage Plans to provide a fresh perspective on the past hundred years of metropolitan development. Thanks to this new initiative, architects, town planners, home owners and general researchers will be able to approach the information in these plans - which document the growth of the city and often lost parts of Perth - from a completely different angle.

Damien Hassan Wednesday, October 5, 2016 - 09:31

Catalogue updates – February 2019

Lise Summers Wednesday, February 27, 2019 - 16:31

Adding Zotero to the catalogue

Zotero is open source referencing software which can be added to your browser (Firefox and Chrome are the preferred browsers) to capture the title and other details from online resources and catalogues. Created by the team at the Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media , Zotero is one of a number of open source projects for use by researchers and historians.

Lise Summers Wednesday, October 31, 2018 - 14:13

What are some of the challenges in digital archiving?

Floppy Discs Archives around the world have been challenged by the arrival of “the digital age”. As people, businesses and government departments move to creating and storing their information as digital files, archives are then behoven to take these files and keep them in an accessible format.

Sandi Davy Wednesday, March 6, 2013 - 15:00

Wax Cylinder recordings

Recently I’ve been hunting for recordings of American jazz from pre-1920 for a new exhibition we’re working on. Normally the Internet turns up lots of results when looking for music recordings, but this search wasn’t locating the several popular songs of the day that I was interested in.

Digital Services Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 12:12