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Selina Owen

Papua New Guinea University of Technology

Digitisation: A Preservation Approach to the Architecture Heritage Collection

SELINA OWEN is the Curator of the Architecture Heritage Center of Papua New Guinea University of Technology. She earned her Master of Arts in Communication Leadership in 2012 from PNG University of Technology and Master of Arts in Librarianship in 1987 from University of Canberra. She also earned her Postgraduate Diploma in Advance Librarianship from the University of Canberra. Prior to her current position as curator she served in the University Library for more than twenty years. She was also Deputy University Librarian at the Papua New Guinea University of Technology.

Abstract

The Architecture Heritage Centre of Papua New Guinea is a Research Centre containing drawings, books, slides, thesis, maps and photographs of traditional buildings of Papua New Guinea. It is a unique and specialized collection on the subject of traditional architecture and buildings of Papua New Guinea. This paper attempts to discuss the process of digitization: a method chosen to preserve the information knowledge contain in this rare and unique collection.