New digital awards?

Perhaps two new digital awards could be introduced - a Digital Preservation Award (for digital surrogates) and a Digital Literature Award (for ‘born digital’ content) in order to further promote our lead role in the digital preservation of Queensland’s documentary heritage. These awards would highlight the twin focus areas of the Digital Preservation Strategy – the preservation of digital surrogates; and the capture of ‘born digital’ content.

The Digital Preservation Award would be awarded annually to a private sector, non-profit or cultural heritage organisation initiative addressing the long-term preservation of creative Queensland content in digital form. The award would focus on the preservation of digital surrogates including photographs, cartoons, motion pictures, sound recordings or video games created by or about Queensland and/or Queenslanders; and would include hosting of the successful recipient’s project within State Library’s Queensland Digital Library.

The Digital Literature Award would be awarded annually to a Queensland fiction, non-fiction or screen writer or poet employing digital technology in the production of his or her work.