Data Set Name: National Parks Commission Annual Reports

Short Description: / GRG60/43 Annual reports – National Parks Commission, 2 volumes 1892 - 1968
Update Frequency: / Never
Last Updated: / 17/04/2013
Organisation: / State Records of South Australia/Department for Environment and Heritage
File Location: / data.sa.gov
File Format: / Series of Jpg files of original record, excel spread sheet containing metadata
Author: / State Records of South Australia
Mentors: / Tamara Wenham – Will attend the event
Themes: / National Parks, Environment, Annual Reports, South Australia
Licence: / Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU)

Meta Data (How to use/interpret the data set)

This series contains 2 volumes of annual reports of the National Park Commissioners, subsequently the Commissioners of the National Park and Wild Life Reserves and the National Parks Commission.

They are handwritten up until 30th June 1910 (file ref GRG60_43_0_1_1_img120.jpg) and typed thereafter. Later reports are accompanied by original, signed audited financial statements. Many reports are drafts.


A small number of the reports in the first volume are annual single number 'National Park' correspondence files that appear to have been subsequently flattened and included in the volume. The numbers of these files are 78/1914, 28/1916, 30/1921, 105/1923 and 150/1924

The accompanying spread sheet GRG60_43 contains the following fields:

·  File name – name of file

·  Series ID – Series Identification; reference to the series identifier of the archival series the original record is held in, within the collection maintained by State Records of South Australia

·  Series number – reference to the series number of the archival series the original record is held in, within the collection maintained by State Records of South Australia. This is used in conjunction with the Series ID

·  Consignment – reference to the consignment number within the archival series that the original record is held in, within the collection maintained by State Records of South Australia

·  Unit number – reference to the unit number, within the consignment, within the series that the original record is held in, within the collection maintained by State Records of South Australia

·  Item – Reference to the item number within the unit, within the consignment, within the series that the original record is held in, within the collection maintained by State Records of South Australia

·  Item Description – Description of the item

·  Description of image – image number or page number within sequence of files that make up the item

·  Date of capture: Date the digital copy of the record was created

·  File size - Size of the file in megabytes

·  File type - File format (jpg/tif)

·  Resolution - Resolution digital image was scanned at in dpi (dots per inch)

Details of other original records created by the National Parks Commissioners can be found in the State Records catalogue www.catalogue.archives.sa.gov.au under the Agency ID GRG60