Our Customers
If you would like to find out more about any of these projects, please contact us and we can provide contact details for the projects of interest.
We reviewed the online Directory of Breast Cancer Treatment and Services for the Breast Cancer Institute and the Breast Cancer Action Group NSW. The review looked at design of the online Directory and user interface issues.
We developed a museum kiosk for Hyde park Barracks Museum to showcase the records of the fourteen thousand convicts incacerated at the Barracks during its penal history. A main feature of this kiosk was replacing information centric displays into narrative and we developed code to take a rowe of data and present it as a story. We also developed a link to allow the display of scanned copies of a convict's original recoreds if they were available and discussed a project with State Records NSW to produce the scanned copies of these convicts records.
Dr Bob Jansen, our CEO, is working with the Centre for Health Informatics at the University of New South Wales. He has produced two reports related to e-Health, one publicly available from the National Institute for Cinical Studies in Melbourne. A sister research centre at UNSW has also purchased a license foe Testimony Software to assist them with video ethnography, the annotation of videos they record in analysing communication activities in ward rounds in a hospital.
We have developed a kiosk, using our Testimony Software system, for TAFE New South Wales. The kiosk provides information on the history of TAFE as told by current and past lecturers.
We used TESTIMONY SOFTWARE to develop a museum kiosk for Tenterfield Shire Council. The kiosk runs in their Sir Henry Parkes Memorial School of Art and provides the history behind the famous Tenterfield oration given by Sir Henry Parkes in the late 1890's.
We worked with the National Library of Australia in applying our Testimony Software technology to bringing the NLA's oral history collection to the public. [Go to attendonline web site] [Go to TESTIMONY SOFTWARE page]
We worked with the Sydney Jewish Museum to prototypea CD ROM showing how we can publish and preserve the testimonies of Australia's Holocaust survivors. The CD ROm was developed with our TESTIMONY SOFTWARE technology [Go to TESTIMONY SOFTWARE page]
We worked with the National Archies of Australia to develop technology and systems enabling them to preserve digital information. The project is investigating the feasibility of developing and maintaining an archival format and mechanisms for transforming digital information files into this archival format
We were commissioned by the NPWs to develop a museum interactive kiosk for the La Perouse museum. The kiosk will tell the story of La Perouse's last visit to Australia and the details of his death in the Solomon Islands. The kisosk is being developed using our TESTIMONY SOFTWARE system. [Go to TESTIMONY SOFTWARE page]
The Department of Communication and the Arts engaged Turtle Lane Studios to develop a CD ROM for the Cultural Ministers' Council related to the digitisation of Australia's heritage collection. The CD ROM will utilise Turtle Lane Studios' Events On Line technology to provide:
- Information to Cultural Ministers, cultural organisations and practitioners on various aspects of the digitisation of cultural heritage, including Government reports, key stakeholders' advice and opinions, issues, etc;
- Examples of digitised cultural material; and
- Through the Events On Line technology, an example of what can be achieved in providing access to digitised collections.
Impart Corporation is one of the Cooperative Multimedia Centres established under the Federal Government's Creative Nation initiative. Turtle Lane Studios provided the service of Consulting Director, Technology & Research to Impart Corporation. In this role, we are responsible for the technical infrastructure of Impart and have designed and implemented the Head Office network and Internet connection. We are also responsible for the development of a detailed requirements specification for a system developing and delivering flexible learning using the Internet. Turtle Lane Studios has writen a communication plan and the strategic IT plan providing a framework for the information gathered, created and manipulated by Impart through its business activities as well as specifying the impact and responsibilities on Impart staff and contractors.
The organising committee of the Information Online & On Disc conference held in January 1999 has engaged us to use our Events On Line service to develop an Events On Line treatment of a two hour session on digital libraries. The electronic proceedings of this session is available from http://olod99.cadre.com.au and should be available from the Information Online & On Disc web site http://www.csu.edu.au/special/online99 soon
The Gallery engaged us to design and implement a TCP/IP network and associated network services for them.
The Department asked us to provide some keynote presentations related to the future of Information Technology in an education environment. The first presentation was as part of the Department's 1999 TechnoExpo for its Training & Development Directorate. The second presentation is to a group of teacher librarians.
IWOPF engaged us to host their web site and provide information design services. This customer has spun off and are now running their own web site, the Sydney Art on Paper Fair.
The ABC asked us to develop a document detailing the direction of development in multimedia technology and the challenges and opportunities this provides for the Corporation.
We assisted Langtrees.com in developing their e-commerce web site for selling their products and services to an international audience. In this project, we provided consulting services related to the utilisation of digital video and general technical issues. We edited and compressed their video using our digital video studio. We also providced project manager services over a number of months.
The Community engaged Yvonne Boag, one of our Directors, to come and work with them in providing fine art printing services to the local aboriginals at the Lockhart River Community.
We have also developed a multimedia dictionary facilitating the translation of words beteeen English and two Aboriginal languages, Kuuku Ya'u and Umpila. This system enables the user to find a term using either search on the English form, Kuuku Ya'u or Umpila forms if the phonetic spelling is known or by traversing a classification hierarchy of the words or a set of images visualising the concepts in the terms.
Main Street Gallery asked us to design and implement their first web site. They spun off and are now managing their own site [Go to web site]
We developed a web site for Mitsubishi Motors for their Magna Drive Program, which sent threee Magna vehicles around Australia as a demonstration of the Magna range of vehicles. We also processed the video recorded at each country town at which the roadshow stopped. Initially, the web site centred around an on-line quiz which we built. This was removed on the decision of MMAL and replaced with a simpler site with video, etc. [Go to web site]
Newtown North Public School commenced an ambitious program to introduce information technology into suitable aspects of the school's operations. Turtle Lane Studios assisted the school in articulating the vision for the appropriate use of relevant information technology; developing a strategy to guide this effort; develop a five year plan to facilitate medium term planning; cable the school to 10 Base T standards; implement the Vicom Internet Gateway software to act as a software router to conect to the Internet; implement the school's intranet for internal communication; implement an email service to provide email facilities to all staff and each classroom; and provide general advice and support as required.
DUAP asked us to assist them with a number of design tasks, including, a concept demonstrator for a digital planning instrument, an industrial lands database system and a development application register. We are providing our information architecture and systems design skills.
We were retained by the Toyota/TAFE NSW collaboration, called T3, to develop a kiosk system to advertise the initiative at the Sydney Motor Show and to commence development of the T3 web site. [Go to web site]
We designed and implemented the PC network and associated network services for this company. We have also been retained to provide on-going network and technical support.
- Australia Street Consulting
We worked with Australia Street Consulting on a number of projects where we have provided technical expertise and build technical solutions for their clients.