Transcription of museum acquisition/ accession forms

Objects in our collection have acquisition/ accession forms which are overwhelmingly hand written, often with additional notes of supporting documentation.

So that this information can be searched and easily read, we need to transcribe these forms into digital format.

Please consider assisting with this process by volunteering for offsite transcription - i.e. you do this work whenever you have time in the comfort of your own home.

We then ask you to agree to keep the data confidential, (as some data transcribed is not for publication e.g. personal details of the donor) 

Then we give you a link to view 20 forms.

You type them out on your computer while looking at the original scans, and, when finished, send us the text for inclusion in the database (the data is entered into the Collections Victoria Record, as well as into the acquisition form image file metadata).

Please contact us if you have time to help in this task.

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For example: 

Files needing transcription:

• Christine working on AccessionForms DJ2200-DJ2299 - Completed up to DJ2249 as of 20Dec2023