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Archives and Copyright

This site was built by a tutorial class in the History major Capstone subject 'Making History'. The brief for the assessment task was for each tutorial to create a group Omeka exhibition on thier research project. Each student was required to upload three documents or images to the tutorial’s Omeka.net exhibition, providing the metadata and some contextual/explanatory text for them. Students needed to provide full metadata for each archival document they uploaded, including – series, box, folder, etc. and some information about the context – by whom was this document created, for what purpose, why it was preserved in an archive, and so on. The Omeka exhibition was designed to be a public presentation of the research work commissioned. Students were asked to build a scholarly, but also  engaging and publicly accessible and comprehensible site. One person in each group was responsible for the public areas of the Omeka exhibition, writing the text and providing images that will introduce and make sense of the documents uploaded by the rest of the class. For the Victorian Trades Hall Omeka site, this student was Nathaniel Cutter.

The metadata supplied and site and essay referencing is student work and has been added to the site as submitted for assessment. All students whose work is uploaded have given permission for thier essays to be included. The archival materials contained in this site have been sourced from the University of Melbourne Archives, Trove, and the State Library of Victoria. Please see the 'copyright' tab for copyright details of the archival material contained in this site. 

Copyright

Archival material from the University of Melbourne Archives is reproduced on this site with permission. 

Metadata and referencing in this site have been completed by students at the University of Melbourne. All possible attempt has been made to conform to Copyright requirements.

Copyright for the archival materials themselves is - as with all archival collections - inevitably complex and varies from country to country. Researchers wishing to publish material from this collection in any form will need to seek the appropriate copyright permissions.

If you believe copyrighted work is available on this site in such a way that constitutes copyright infringement, or a breach of an agreed licence or contract, please notify the site convener David Goodman, d.goodman@unimelb.edu.au.

Please include the following information:

  • your name;
  • your address;
  • your phone number;
  • your email;
  • address (URL, hostname or IP address, and file name) of the page/s;
  • description of the item/s that you believe are a copyright infringement or breach;
  • details of the owner of the content;
  • if you are not the owner of the content the capacity in which are you acting on their behalf;
  • any extra comments if necessary.