VPRS 15063 Copies of Correspondence Relating to the Establishment of the Aboriginal Protectorate [Digitised Series - Archival Quality Master] (SERIES CANCELLED)

This series was created by Public Record Office Victoria in order to capture high resolution VEOs (VERS Encapsulated Objects) of the records contained within VPRS 4409 Copies of Correspondence Relating to the Establishment of the Aboriginal Protectorate for preservation purposes.This series consists of 10 items of correspondence relating to the establishment of the Aboriginal Protectorate collated by the Chief Protector of Aborigines (VA 512).Except for a copy of a despatch from Lord Glenelg to Sir George Gipps announcing the appointment of a Chief Protector of Aborigines (copied by Assistant Protector Thomas), all of the correspondence are copies of Mr G.A. Robinson's inward and outward correspondence which appear to have been copied by Robinson himself. Several letters were from E. Deas Thomson (who was Colonial Secretary for New South Wales for almost 20 years from 1837).Subjects covered by the correspondence include the Native Police Corps, the appointment of the Assistant Protectors, and governmental policy relating to Aboriginal people. G.A. Robinson was given charge over the Native Police Corps from 1839 to 1841 when it was placed under the Chief Protector of Aborigines (VA 512).Correspondence relating to the establishment of the Aboriginal Protectorate may also be located in VPRS 4 Inward Registered Correspondence, VPRS 10 Registered Inward Correspondence to the Superintendent of Port Phillip District relating to Aboriginal Affairs and VPRS 19 Inward Registered Correspondence.Note:It was decided to cancel this series as it was never created.An explanation: (source is Daniel Wilksch, Manager, On-line Projects, PROV August 2006)At the initial stage of Digital Archive project before the Digital Archive went live, the need for an archival master and a working copy of our digitised paper material was envisaged. The VERS standard at that stage forbade compressing images and a high-resolution copy of paper material would have been too large to download over the internet.However, since the DA went live, we have started dealing with the way it works in the real world. The VERS standard was extended to allow image compression with certain formats. This means that we can now have a high-resolution image that is small enough for an internet download.Because of this the only situation where we will have 'archival quality' masters in a series of their own is digitised photographic records. For digitised paper records the preservation requirements are lower and the one copy will do for both.