VPRS 15062 Duplicate Annual Reports of the Chief Protector of Aborigines [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 4399 Duplicate Annual Reports of the Chief Protector of Aborigines for preservation purposes.This series consists of Duplicate Annual Reports for 1845 and 1849 of the Chief Protector of Aborigines (VA 512).Information for each Protectorate District (i.e. North Eastern, North Western, Western and Westernport), is recorded on the following subjects: personnel, medical, agriculture, stock, building and improvements, conduct of aborigines, births and deaths, expenditures, religion, education, native police and crime. Both reports have appendices of returns. Both reports have been handwritten by Robinson.Annual Reports sent from Robinson to the Superintendent of Port Phillip District can also be located in VPRS 10 Registered Inward Correspondence to the Superintendent of Port Phillip District relating to Aboriginal Affairs and VPRS 19 Inward Registered Correspondence. A copy of the 1848 Annual Report was recorded in VPRS 2895 Outward Letter Book.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.

本系列由维多利亚公共档案馆（Public Record Office Victoria，简称PROV）创制，旨在为保存VPRS 4399《原住民事务首席保护官年度副本报告》所收录的档案，制作高分辨率VEO（VERS封装对象，VERS Encapsulated Objects）文件。

本系列涵盖1845年与1849年的《原住民事务首席保护官年度副本报告》（档案编号VA 512）。

各保护管辖区（即东北、西北、西部及韦斯特波特辖区）的相关信息均按以下类目记录：人员配置、医疗状况、农业生产、畜牧养殖、建筑与改造工程、原住民行为表现、出生与死亡统计、经费开支、宗教活动、教育开展情况、原住民警务及犯罪事件。

两份报告均附有回执附录，且均由罗宾逊手写完成。

罗宾逊致菲利普港辖区总监的原住民事务年度报告，亦可在VPRS 10《涉及原住民事务的致菲利普港辖区总监登记来函》及VPRS 19《登记来函》中检索获取。

1848年年度报告的副本收录于VPRS 2895《外发信件簿》中。

备注：因本系列从未实际生成，故已决定将其注销。

说明：（资料来源：PROV在线项目经理丹尼尔·威尔克施，Daniel Wilksch，2006年8月）

在数字档案（Digital Archive，简称DA）项目上线初期，项目团队曾设想为数字化纸质档案分别制备档案母本与工作副本。

彼时的VERS标准禁止对图像进行压缩，且纸质档案的高分辨率副本体积过大，无法通过互联网完成下载。

但在数字档案（DA）上线后，我们开始结合实际运行场景优化方案。VERS标准后续已完成扩展，允许对特定格式的图像进行压缩处理。

这意味着我们如今可制备体积足够小巧、可通过互联网下载的高分辨率图像文件。

正因如此，目前仅在数字化摄影档案场景中，才需要单独设立系列以存储‘档案级’母本。对于数字化纸质档案，其保存要求较低，仅需一份副本即可同时满足存档与使用需求。