The Fort Queenscliff Heritage Association is extremely grateful for the assistance you have provided. Your contribution helps us improve our service and recognises the importance of our work in promoting Queenscliff as a place to visit, stay a while and learn about this heritage town. We strive to continually improve our services and your support is greatly appreciated.
In 2024 FQHA received a community grant of $1948 from the Borough Of Queenscliffe towards completing our infrastructure needed for the digitisation of historic documents and photographs.
Two All-in-One desktop computers were purchased as a necessary step to upgrade our museum catalogue system. These two computers strengthen our research team by allowing searches to be done while other volunteers continue with the digitisation process. As a bonus, the All-in-One configuration also minimises the footprint and increases available diskspace.
Thank You the Borough Of Queenscliffe for filling this vital gap.
In 2023 FQHA was able to develop a Virtual Tour project following the receipt $3,000 of grant funding through the Department of Industry, Science and Resources, Stronger Communities Round 8 funding.
The 3D elements of the tour were created by Mark of Aerial Digital Technologies (ADT) and his team, with the assistance of volunteers from FQHA. The completed tour includes 3D images, historical images and narrative video clips to explain the history of various locations within the Fort. This was a collaborative project and would not have got off the ground without the support of grant funding from the Australian Government or the expertise of Mark and his team from ADT or the FQHA volunteers who found the historical components … Thank You All for job well done, if longer than anyone expected.
[Use a copy of the image of the museum dolls house on the Virtual Tour page to show what it is, or this photo if you think it is better]
In 2021 a grant of $900 from the Borough of Queenscliffe to the FQHA allowed us to purchase a new document scanner, our first book scanner, the Czur ET18 Pro.
While it makes excellent copies of photographs and pictures it comes into its own when handling multi page items like books. The scanner not only automatically selects the right size for the document and digitises the image but splits it into to two separate pages and ‘flattens’ them out on the scanned image. Furthermore, the software enables you to save the images as a straight photo or PDF, or in a format that is readable by the computer allowing you to search the text for particular words or sentences. A great boon to researchers.
We thank the Borough for this opportunity improve to our scanning and research capabilities … Thankyou.
022 was a pivotal year in the modernising of the FQHA IT infrastructure as the first step towards digitising the historical records and photographs held in the archive. FQHA was successful in applying for Culture, Heritage and Arts Regional Tourism (CHART) funding through the Australian Museum and Galleries Association Victoria (AMaGA) for a total of $2950.
The purchase of a new powerful desktop computer, an Epson Perfection v600 Photo scanner and an Epson Expression XP-15000 Photo printer, in conjunction with the existing Czur ET18 document scanner, enabled us to create a dedicated scanning desk. This has led to a step up in our capabilities and was a fundamental stage in our goal of digitisation.
Thank You AMaGA, this funding and the ongoing support through workshop opportunities for our volunteers is allowing us to provide an improved service to the community.
The $3069 from the Community Enterprise Foundation at the end of 2024 brought the FQHA IT upgrade to a conclusion. Although the process has taken a few years the most vital piece in the whole project was the last and we are pleased to thank the Foundation for bringing that to a conclusion.
Upgrading the ISTechnologies MOSAiC catalogue system from version 10 to version 12 was always our aim, however it took many attempts to find an organisation willing to fund it. Invisible computer software is not an easy thing to promote, though critically important in what it allows FQHA volunteers to do. The MOSAiC software contains the records of FQHA. It contains all the information on what and where items are, including books, manuals, photographs, original documents and information on those who served at the fort. It is the central location where volunteers can search for information on people and items. Any enquiry made to FQHA will be addressed first by checking what is on MOSAiC. Version 12, aside from being newer, allows us to create easier pathways to digital images of items and opens a pathway to access to the information online.
We are very pleased to have gained the support of the Bendigo Bank Community Enterprise Foundation to achieve this long term goal.
1 King St., Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
Email: museum@fortqueenscliff.com.au
Phone: (03) 5258 1488 or 0458551709 (bus. hrs only)
1 King St., Queenscliff, Victoria, Australia
Email: museum@fortqueenscliff.com.au
Phone: (03) 5258 1488 or
0458551709 (bus. hrs only)