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Significance 2.0: a guide to assessing the significance of collections

Roslyn Russell, Kylie Winkworth

© Commonwealth of Australia, 2010
ISBN 97 80977544363 (pbk)

Part 6 — Significance in action — applications

Significance assessment applications

Significance assessment is only the first part of the significance process.

Once an item or collection has been assessed as significant, a range of actions, called 'applications', flow from the assessment.

The Charlotte medal 1788

ACQUISITION…

of the Charlotte medal

Some of the items deaccessioned by the National Trust of Australia (Western Australia)

DEACCESSIONING…

of 6 000 items from the National Trust of Australia (WA) collection

The Bentley in front of The Lodge

CONSERVATION TREATMENT…

of Prime Minister Menzies' Bentley

The raising of the original flag after being repaired in Townsville, 16 September, 1951

COLLECTION RISK ASSESSMENT…

of Australian flag fragments for priority salvage

Bark cloth draped over a roll of woven coconut fibre matting

COLLECTION CARE…

of South Sea Islands artefacts

Digital disc

COPYING AND DIGITISATION…

of the James Gleeson Oral History Collection

Cover of Policy and minimum requirements for management of cultural collections

COLLECTION ANALYSIS AND POLICY DEVELOPMENT…

at the University of Melbourne

Sundial at Springfield, Goulburn

IN SITU COLLECTIONS…

documenting the Springfield sheep station collection before transfer

Painting - Portrait of Manning Clark by Arthur Boyd

SHARED COLLECTIONS…

managing the Manning Clark portrait between private and government collections

Mixed media installation - The contrivance of a vintage Wonderland (A magnificent flight of curious fancy for science buffs, a china ark of seductive whimsy, a divinely ordered special attraction, upheld in multifariousness) by Danie Mellor

EXHIBITIONS AND INTERPRETATION…

of an art installation in a travelling exhibition

Lithograph - Bungaree: King of the Aborigines of New South Wales by Augustus Earle

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS…

Bungaree lithograph in the Objects Through Time online exhibition

The Olympic torch, used by Cathy (Catherine) Freeman at the Sydney 2000 Olympics

ONLINE ACCESS AND EDUCATION…

at the Sydney 2000 Olympics website

Riawe, a motor launch built in 1912

NOMINATING TO A REGISTER…

Riawe to the Australian Register of Historic Vessels

Artwork - Pupini Jilamara - ochre on bark by Kitty Kantilla

APPLYING FOR A GRANT…

Jilamara Arts and Crafts collection to the Community Heritage Grants Program

Map accompanying report of John Henderson, Colliery Manager, 8 May 1827

ADVOCACY AND RESOURCING…

of the Noel Butlin Archives Centre

Part of the burnt-out 50-inch telescope at Mt Stromlo Observatory incorporating parts of the Great Melbourne Telescope

FUNDRAISING AND PROMOTION…

for the Great Melbourne Telescope and for the Nelcebee

Cover of thematic study: Her Story - a collection of women's stories, places and objects in the Hastings, Port Macquarie-Hastings Council

THEMATIC STUDIES AND REGIONAL SURVEYS…

Her Story at Port Macquarie and Timber Stories in the Hastings region

Flinders University student, Jenna Randall's Report for the Collections Council on collections mapping

COLLECTIONS MAPPING…

read a report on Collections Mapping

Jai Paterson, Roving Curator for Arts Tasmania, teaching museum volunteers at Oatlands Courthouse, Tasmania

SIGNIFICANCE TRAINING…

across Australia

Note from the Department, September 2010: The Assessing Cultural Heritage Website Quality case study has been removed due to changed circumstances affecting its subject, the former Australian Government Culture Portal, which closed on 1 July 2010. An archive copy can be found at: www.pandora.nla.gov.au/tep/21007 

Cover of the Significance 2.0 publication