TRANSCRIBING OUR HERITAGE
An in-school Community Service program

The National Trust has a range of heritage needs requiring computing skills that might be suitable for development as an “in school” Community Service project for your students. Through this program students contribute to the community by promoting awareness, understanding, commitment and enjoyment of heritage.

The National Trust is unique in Western Australia in that it is the only statutory organisation supporting an holistic (or integrated) approach to heritage which has both the mandate and operational experience to deliver management of heritage places, community education and learning and active community programs for conservation.

The following categories of service tasks are generally available:
• Transcription of paper based documents into electronic format (through MSWord or OCR if available). The documents range from tour scripts, visit reports or details of historic sites which need to be converted to electronic format for safekeeping
• Scanning to specified standards (jpeg and tiff) of photographs and documents related to the National Trust records of heritage places
• Sourcing images to be matched to text for formatting of web pages
• Sourcing links and additional materials on line for key words in existing heritage oriented web pages to broaden the breadth and depth of content
• Design of electronic headers, formats and other art work for newsletters and web pages on associated sites
• Creating web pages and community or precinct stories based on photographs and records available in the National Trust collections.

Download a pdf of Transcribing Our Heritage WA curriculum connections.

For further information about this project contact
National Trust (WA) Education & Learning Coordinator
Phone: 9321 6088
Email: trust@ntwa.com.au