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Ideas for how Volunteers at
cultural heritage
institutions can help.
Using Trove as a tool
(with a focus on Art).
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
November 2010
Rose Holley: Trove Manager
National Library of Australia
[email protected]
Warning: This presentation contains the names of Aboriginal people now deceased
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Trove
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Background and development
Searching Trove
User engagement
How volunteers can help
NLA Strategic Directions 2009-2011
“We will explore new models for creating and
sharing information and for collecting
materials, including supporting the creation
of knowledge by our users. “
(not just NLA resources… all Australian content)
“The changing expectations of users that they
will not be passive receivers of information,
but rather contributors and participants in
information services.”
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IT Development
Learning the ‘art of with’ Charles Leadbeater
Not to people
Not for people
WITH PEOPLE (USERS)
Public feedback drives the development:
CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING
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Important to Users
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Connections
Linkages
Related
Context
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Sharing
Re-purposing
Mashing
Adding
Give users:
Access to resources + Tools to do stuff
Freedom and choices
Ways to work collaboratively together
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Content sources - Trove
Australian Collaborative
Services
• ANBD – 1000 libraries
• Pandora - websites
• ARO - Research
• RAAM - Archives
• Picture Australia
• Australian Newspapers
Open sources
• Open Library (Internet
Archive)
• Hathi Trust
• OAISTER
Targets – websites
•Amazon
•Wikipedia
90 million items
•Google Books/Videos
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•Flickr
Methods of data collection
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Libraries
Galleries
Museums
Archives
(Deep web hidden in
collection databases…)
• Open Archives Initiative
(OAI)
• Application
Programmers Interface
(API)
• FTP/HTTP
• Sitemaps
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Significant art resources in Trove
• From OAISTER e.g. VADS, Brigham Young Museum of
Art
• Dictionary of Australian Artists Online - Biographies
• NGA – Australian Art and Artists File
• Full text historic Australian newspapers – art reviews
• Australian research outputs - art
• The ANBD including non-digitised picture records
• Digitised pictures from Picture Australia
Picture Australia vs Trove
Picture Australia
Trove
Format : Images only
Images, sound, video, books, archives,
maps, websites, biographies, journals,
newspapers, research outputs.
Content type: Digital only
Digital and non-digital
Size: 2 million
90 million
User engagement: Add own images
Add own images AND forum,
comments, tags, rating, lists,
corrections.
Subject Focus: Australian pictures
Anything Australian
Contributors: 60
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Metadata display: ‘old catalogue style’
FRBR (works and grouped versions)
Topic based art searches
Hans Heysen
Queenie McKenzie
Albert Namatjira
Arthur Streeton
Find and get information
about artists and their
artworks
Rabbit proof fence
Background research on
topics by artists
Teapots
Collecting art
Single search
Restrict
search
browse
groups/
zones
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Hans Heysen (1877-1968)
groups/zones
results
Get item
Refine/limit search results
Is it in copyright?
How do I refer to it?
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How can I get it?
Online
Borrow
Buy
Copy
Hidden archives
Full text newspapers
Interviews, oral history, video, music
Biographies
Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube
Pictures – digitised and not
Minimise zones
Objects
Queenie McKenzie (1915-1998)
press clippings, invitations, ephemera
Conversations with women- finding aid
Archived websites
10 years of indigenous art for sale in
Ochre Gallery
2009
2001
Background research for film
Collecting art – teapots on exhibition
Interaction at article level
Fix text – power edit mode
Show all corrections
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Context – Tools - Lists
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Lists
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Showcase items in your collection
Virtual exhibitions – easy and quick
Teaching resource kits
Reading lists/fact sheets
‘Favourites’
Virtual press clippings file
Track research/topics
User generated content via Flickr
Tagging- useful for display
adverts and images
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User profile
Your settings and history
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View user activity from homepage
Saturday August 21, 10am
10,000 an hour
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Hall of Fame – thank you!!!
Total of 20 million lines corrected September 2010
Volunteers – 12 ideas
1. Correct newspaper text on topics of interest to your
institution e.g. artists exhibitions
2. Add comments/context to records e.g. could
describe the contents of your artists ephemera files
if records are in Trove, or give more information on
image files - geographic locations, people in
pictures.
3. Create and add images on targeted topics to Trove
via Flickr e.g. street sculpture in Australia
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4. Digitise your ephemera and add to Trove via Flickr,
then gather into a virtual ephemera file by using
Trove lists.
5. Create virtual press clippings files on artists by
adding digitised newspaper articles to a Trove list.
6. Showcase items in your collection by creating a
Trove list.
7. Easily curate a virtual exhibition using Trove lists.
8. Create teaching resource kits using Trove lists and
add further notes and description to items.
Volunteers
9. Transfer reading lists/recommended resources/fact
sheet information into a Trove list for your
institution.
10. Help with internal or collaborative research by
finding items of relevance and tagging them with
an agreed tag or adding to a ‘private’ list.
11. Subject experts in the Trove Forum
12. Tweet/send to institutional Facebook account
interesting resources using Trove ‘send to’ feature.
Screencasts – How To…(add yours..)
http://www.youtube.com/user/TroveNLA
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User Forum – you can create groups
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Useful Links
This presentation is on ‘slideshare’
http://www.slideshare.net/RHmarvellous
The notes sheet with useful links is on slideshare
and on Trove ‘about’ page under documents.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
e.g. how to use lists, set up a group in the Trove
forum, guidelines for text correction,
…screencasts.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
Finding the pieces and
putting them together for
you.
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Questions?
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