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Digital Photographic Collection

Created 23/06/2025

Updated 23/06/2025

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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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Field Value
Title Digital Photographic Collection
Language English
Licence Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/7faa2336-7601-447c-91b0-4b771ee26b6f
Remote Last Updated 26/05/2022
Contact Point
State Library of Western Australia
info@data.wa.gov.au
Reference Period 01/01/1818 - 31/12/1950
Geospatial Coverage
Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors
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Data Portal Western Australia Government

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Western Australia Government "Digital Photographic Collection". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/digital-photographic-collection