The series was co-written and produced by Professor Stuart Butler from the School of Physics at the University of Sydney and journalist and film-maker Bob Raymond. The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Sydney was bequeathed the rights to the original strips, or “pulls”, of the Frontiers of Science comic strips which were published in over 600 newspapers worldwide from 1961 to 1982. This approach allowed for a rapid development cycle (6 weeks) to deliver the site on time as well as provide us with a framework for similar projects. Time and resource constraints dictated the use of (mostly open source) code modules wherever possible and the integration and customisation of a range of web-based applications, code snippets and technologies (DSpace, eXtensible Text Framework (XTF), OmniFormat, JQuery Tools, Thickbox and Zoomify), stylistically pulled together using CSS. We wanted to enable users to search and browse through the images simply and effectively, with an intuitive and novel viewing platform. We aimed to create a website that could disseminate these comic strips to scholars, enthusiasts and the general public. The Rare Books and Special Collections Library at the University of Sydney, in association with Sydney eScholarship, digitized all 939 strips. The Frontiers of Science illustrated comic strip of ‘science fact’ ran from 1961 to 1982, syndicated worldwide through over 600 newspapers.
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