This project, which forms part of the Australian Research Council funded project E-Research project (First Chief Investigator, Professor Susan Broomhall, University of Western Australia; industry partner: Australians Studying Abroad), is devoted to the task of digitising images of rare topographical prints in the British School at Rome. The British School at Rome has one of the finest collections in the world of topographical material relating to Rome, much of it assembled by its first director, Thomas Ashby. Forming part of this collection are several hundred topographical prints which have hitherto been uncatalogued and little known to scholars, let along to a wider audience. Many of these prints are not well known, and few are available publicly. The initial project will catalogue and digitise 110 of these prints at a high resolution, and make them publicly available through the websites of www.elsewhere.com.au, URBS (Unione Romana Biblioteche Scientifiche), and the Archivio di Stato, Rome. Preliminary sorting and classification work has been undertaken in February 2007 by the Melbourne University Art History Intern at the British School, Caterina Sciacca, who will be undertaking the full cataloguing and digitisation of the prints as the Australian Research Council E-Research www.elsewhereonline.com.au Intern later in 2007. 

The BSR digitisation project is directed by Valerie Scott, Librarian at the British School at Rome, and Associate Professor David R. Marshall, Art History Discipline, the University of Melbourne. Digital photography will be undertaken by Laura Primangeli, Centro di Fotoriproduzione degli Archivi di Stato, and additional support provided by Beatrice Gelosia.