The foundation of this archive is digitised versions of artefacts in the David Branson Papers HMSS 0233, in the ACT Heritage Library, comprising:
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Video of performance, rehearsals, behind-the-scenes, and promotional material
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Photographs
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Notebooks and documents
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Works on paper such as posters, flyers, programs and tickets
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3D objects such as sculptures and props.
Items have also been created here from records and digital objects held in other collections, such as:
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AusStage records of Splinters performances and contributors
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National Library of Australia Trove records that refer to Splinters.
The third tranche are items collected during the research:
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Digital video and photographs documenting the research
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Publications associated with the research.
Ingestion
A primary aim of the research was to make this website using, where possible, free and open-source software tools and web platforms. This has been achieved, although the amount of data involved has meant that I have had to upgrade to paid premium versions of some tools. It remains entirely possible to make an online archive like this using only free software.
Digital media files were organised on Mac Mini and MacBook Pro computers using Adobe Bridge. Editing and transcoding of video was done using Handbrake, MPEG Streamclip, and iMovie. Items have either been directly uploaded to Omeka S, or to online platforms such as YouTube and Flickr. In general, video has been loaded to YouTube due to its larger files sizes and then emdbedded using the built-in Omeka S tool. High resolution archival copies of video are stored on the ANU Data Commons.
Bibliographic references have been gathered using Zotero, and notes compiled in Evernote.