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      Digital Photographic Collection

      50,000 digital photographs in which copyright has expired with bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of the digital image from the State Library of Western Australia Catalogue.

      We're delighted to announce this dataset was used in the prize winning GovHack 2016 competition entry, Colourful Past. https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/colourful-past

      The team summarized their entry thus: Colourful Past aims to create an immediate and lasting connection to our shared past, by giving you a channel to browse recorded in library or archive imagery. You’ll be directed to a set of monochrome or faded photos with a click your sense can feast on an enhanced colour version.

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      • national and state libraries of Australasia
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      Activity Stream RDF JSON
      state-library-of-western-australia
      Key Information
      Published by
      State Library of Western Australia
      Information classification
      OFFICIAL
      Data theme
      Cultural Affairs
      Data last updated
      22-07-2016
      Update frequency
      one-off snapshot
      Data custodian
      Author Not Specified
      Dataset contact
      Library Application Support Team
      Website
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      First published
      25-07-2016
      Metadata last updated
      25-05-2022
      Data source
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      Temporal coverage
      01-01-1818 — 31-12-1950
      Geospatial theme
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      Geospatial source projection
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      Spatial coverage

      Dataset extent

      Base map and data from OpenStreetMap and OpenStreetMap Foundation
      Digital object identifier
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      Citation
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      The Government of Western Australia respectfully acknowledges the traditional owners of country throughout Western Australia and pays its respects to Elders past, present and emerging.

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