STAr Competition is coming soon..

What is the STAr Competition?

The STAr Competition is open to all students from St Thomas’s. Each team is made up of maximum 4 students.

The students will be asked to archive a collection randomly allocated to them. The digitised content must be presented into form which is accessible on the Web. Among the possible platforms include:

• Web-sites
• Blogs
• Online games or applications

Finalists will also be asked to present the project in person to a panel of judges from the Information and Communications Technology field, as well as from the social science background.

The Website will need to have a good web presence. The Web presence must be of a nature that will attract and engage the visitors to the website.

Scanning and Post-Editing Standard Operating Procedure

General Procedure

Filing Structure

User Guide

Part 1: Scanning

1. Switch on scanner and personal computer (PC)
2. Open scanner program
3.  Place scanning material on scanner and start scanning. Follow on-screen instructions.
4.  Name scanned materials according to Digital Reference naming convention.
5.  Save scanned materials in pre-assigned directory. E.g.,
6.  C:   \Documents and Settings\All Users\Desktop\STAr\Scan\Book

Scanning Guidelines

Size	Method	Example
A4	1 page per scan	Year book Legal Documents
Larger than A4	Multiple scans	Newspaper Map

Part 2: Post-editing

1. Open OCR program
2. Open scanned item that requires post-editing (items which contains text or text and graphics)
3. Start optical character recognition
4.  Open word processing application (MS Word, Open Office Writer etc.)
5.  Copy and paste text and/or graphics from OCR program into word processing application
6.  Edit and align the content. Follow as closely as possible to the original material
7. Name the document according to Digital Reference naming convention
8. Save the document in pre-assigned directory

Part 3: Scanning Record

1. Fill the scanning record for each item scanned
2. Teacher-in-charge will verify the quality of each item before signing off the “QC by” column

Part 4: Back-up

All records (forms) should be back-up weekly in a separate storage device.

St. Thomas’s Secondary School Archive Project

St. Thomas School Magazine 1980's, 1990's

Buku Persediaan Mengajar

1. What is STAr?

St. Thomas’s School is the oldest school in Sarawak and third oldest school in Malaysia. Established in 1848, the school possesses a 161-year history, which is a part of Sarawak’s heritage. Against this rich historical tapestry, the St. Thomas Archive (STAr) project was initiated. 

This STAr Project aims to:

• archive collections of various media (photographs, magazines, newspapers) associated to St.Thomas’s history
• raise awareness of the history of the school and Sarawak among the current students and diasporas around the world
• increase the sense of patriotism of present students to inspire them to aim higher in bothacademic and non-academic fields
• encourage the use of technology among the current students
• increase interaction and cooperation between the present students and the Old Boy

2. Why archive?

The history of the school exists predominantly in paper form (hard copies), such as newspaper cuttings, photographs, books, and magazines. However, this form is susceptible to damage due to aging. Furthermore, part of these collections has been lost due to fire which has occurred on three occasions at the school. To ensure that these collections are not lost, there is a need to gather and digitize these collections.

3. How it is done?

The STAr Project attempts to archive the collections by digitising the collections. For example, photographs can be scanned. Documents such as magazines can also be scanned (using Optical Character Recognition (OCR)), and then edited to make sure the content is the same as the original content.

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