Opening a Treasure Trove - The Historical Aerial Photography Project

Explore the Historical Aerial Photography project in this conference talk from linux.conf.au 2020. Dive into Geoscience Australia's efforts to digitize and make accessible a vast collection of aerial photographs spanning over 70 years, from the 1920s to the mid-1990s. Learn about the challenges of preserving degrading negatives, the importance of this archive for understanding Australia's changing landscape, and the collaborative approach with Data-61 to create an open, standards-based platform for discovering and accessing these images. Discover how this project bridges old and new technologies, from century-old handwritten documents to modern cloud deployment and geospatial data discovery APIs. Gain insights into the potential for federated discovery across state and federal archives, and witness a demonstration of the project's progress in making this valuable historical resource more accessible to researchers and the public.

Introduction
Historical aerial photography
Historical data archive
Flight line diagrams
Digitalisation
Other jurisdictions
Open data open standards
Spatiotemporal search
Whats next
Demo
Questions