The following text is from the project web repository created using the Omeka platform at http://omeka.uws.edu.au/farmstofreeways

About the Project: From farms to freeways
This research project, titled 'From farms to freeways: Women's memories of Western Sydney', sought to analyse the experiences of women who had lived in the Blacktown and Penrith areas since the early 1950s, including their responses to social changes brought about by rapid suburbanisation in the Western Sydney region in the post-war period.
Two-hour taped discussions were held with 34 women, aged sixty and over, who were in their early twenties during the Western Sydney region's population growth. The majority of women interviewed were Australian-born, and of Anglo-Celtic origin.
The research project, conducted in 1991 -1992, was led by Doctor Deborah Chambers, who was then the Director of the Women's Research Centre. The Women's Research Centre was associated with the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at University of Western Sydney, Nepean. Dr Chambers later wrote a book chapter based on the oral history research:
Chambers, D. (1997). A stake in the country: Women's experiences of suburban development. In R. Silverstone (Ed.), Visions of suburbia (pp. 86-107): Routledge.
Associate investigators were Carol Liston and Chris Wieneke, assisted by Summer Research Scholar Larissa Banberry. The taped interviews were administered and transcribed by research assistant Robyn Arrowsmith.
The source of funding for the Western Sydney Women's Oral History Project (PN1991/035) is recorded as: Australian Research Council Small Grant / UWS Nepean Summer Vacation Research.
The material produced by this oral history project included audio cassette tape recordings, printed transcripts, photographic negatives and prints, and printed project materials. As part of the UWS/ANDS MODC Project, the material has been digitised by UWS Library in order to share the rich information produced by the project.
Interview numbers 9 and 13 cannot be published as permission was not obtained from those participants. All other participants signed consent forms during the project.

The following files are available via the UWS Institutional Data Repository record at http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/35/555d661071c76:
ftf_audio_for_upload.csv	Audio recording metadata	
ftf_transcripts_for_upload.csv	Transcript metadata	
ftf_images_for_upload.csv	Photographs metadata	
ftf_letters_for_upload.csv	Thank you notes and letters metadata	
ftf_projectMaterials_for_upload.csv	Project materials metadata	
ftf_item_relationships.rtf	Relationships between Interviewee items, expressed as Omeka Item numbers	
ftf_allItems_output.xml	Export of all items in the Omeka to xml format	
ftf_transcripts_plaintext.zip	Plain text format transcripts, bundled	
ftf_transcripts_pdfa.zip	pdf format transcripts, bundled	
ftf_photographs.zip	Jpeg images, bundled	

FLAC, mp3, and .wav format audio files are available from http://rds.uws.edu.au/Schools/SHCA/FarmsToFreeways/
Collection citation:
Chambers, Deborah; Liston, Carol; Wieneke, Christine (2015): Interview material from Western Sydney women's oral history project: 'From farms to freeways: Women's memories of Western Sydney'. University of Western Sydney. http://dx.doi.org/10.4225/35/555d661071c76
UWS / ANDS MODC project
The UWS Major Open Data Collection (MODC) project is funded by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). The aim of the Major Open Data Collections program is to develop internationally significant collections that provide institutions with a valuable opportunity to enhance their research data assets, enable new partnerships to be formed, and enable new data intensive approaches that address internationally significant research challenges.
The From Farms to Freeways oral history project has been identified as meeting the criteria for the MODC project at UWS, where the focus has been on developing a data collection which supports UWS's strong commitment to the Western Sydney region.
Digitisation and OCR conversion of the existing printed transcripts was undertaken by UWS Library. The Library also kindly funded the digitisation of the existing audio cassette recordings, undertaken by DAMsmart in Canberra.
This project is supported by the Australian National Data Service (ANDS). ANDS is supported by the Australian Government through the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy Program.
For more information about the Major Open Data Collections program, visit the ANDS website (http://ands.org.au/). To search for Australian research data, visit Research Data Australia https://researchdata.ands.org.au/