Digitising Collections: Presentations Online

Below are various presentation from the all day symposium Digitising Collections (31 May 2012). M&G NSW would like to thank the Powerhouse Museum for making these videos available.

The sound is sometimes very low, we would recommend watching the videos with headphones.

Ryan Donahue,  Senior Information Systems Developer, The Museum of Metropolitan Art

Ryan Donahue is Senior Information Systems Developer at The Museum of Metropolitan Art, and Director of the Spinny Bar Historical Society. Previous to taking his position with The Met, he was with George Eastman House, the oldest and best museum of photography and film. You can follow Ryan via Twitter - @ryand.  

 
Scott Wajon, Manager, Digitisation, State Library of New South Wales

Scott has been working in photography and imaging at the State Library of NSW since 1989 and has been critically involved in all aspects of the Library’s reformatting and digitisation programs. Scott has given talks to Librarians, local historians , professional photographers on a range of issues relating to photography, archival permanence, collection reformatting, digitisation workflow and digital preservation. In his current role as Manager, Digitisation, Scott is responsible for shaping the current and future digitisation priorities of the State Library of NSW to deliver client-focused, digital collections and services.

Keir Winesmith, Manager, Digital Media, MCA

Keir has a wide and diverse background in new media acquired during his work at the Centre for Art and Media in Germany, the Mixed Reality Laboratory in the United Kingdom, the iCinema Centre of Interactive Cinema Research and the Special broadcasting Service (SBS) in Australia.

Keir completed an interdisciplinary New Media Ph.D. at the University of New South Wales's College of Fine Arts in 2008. In contrast, his undergraduate degree was in Physics and Computer Science at the University of Sydney.

Although his interests and practices cut across art, technology, design and education, Keir's main interests are interactive digital media experiences, supporting the interpretation of art, video production, postgraduate teaching, augmented reality technology, smartphone apps and graffiti in Sydney's inner west.

Paula Bray, Manager, Visual & Digitisation Services

Powerhouse Museum

Paula Bray is the Manager of the Visual and Digitisation Services department at the Powerhouse Museum that includes: Photography, The Image Resource Centre, The Photo Library and Rights and Permissions and Audio Visuals. Paula is responsible for managing the digital collections to the highest standard whilst coordinating photographic and AV projects for exhibitions, publications, events and the website. Paula runs a blog for the Museum and manages the Museum’s two Flickr accounts.


Paula has several years of experience in the creative concept, production and delivery of digital projects and services that are cross media and cross platform. She is passionate about building communities, networked audiences, technology, linked open data and geo-location services that are all changing the way that content is consumed and shared.

Robyn Ayers, Executive Director, Artslaw

Robyn has been a lawyer for over 20 years and the Executive Director of Arts Law since 2003. She is committed to ensuring that artists and arts organisations properly understand their rights as well as their legal responsibilities and are fairly rewarded for the work they do. Robyn is currently the Deputy Chairperson of CLCNSW. Prior to joining Arts Law, Robyn spent a significant part of her legal career working to achieve social justice for different groups in the community, including as a lawyer with Royal Commission Into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody (1988-1991), a Public Interest lawyer at the Aboriginal Legal Service WA (1993-1998); and as Executive Director of the Mental Health Law Centre WA from 1998 to 2002. Robyn has Bachelors of Arts and Law from the University of NSW.