Ideas for how volunteers at cultural heritage institutions can help, using Trove as a tool. November 2010

Rose Holley: Trove Manager

National Library of Australia

rholley@nla.gov.au

National Gallery of Australia, Canberra

November 2010

Ideas for how Volunteers at cultural heritage institutions can help. Using Trove as a tool

(with a focus on Art).

Warning: This presentation contains the names of Aboriginal people now deceased

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Trove

• Background and development• Searching Trove• User engagement• How volunteers can help

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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 peopleNot for people

WITH PEOPLE (USERS)

Public feedback drives the development:CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING

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Important to Users• Connections• Linkages• Related• Context

• 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•Google Books/Videos•Flickr

90 million items

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Methods of data collection

• Libraries• Galleries• Museums• Archives

(Deep web hidden in collection databases…)

• Open Archives Initiative (OAI)

• Application Programmers Interface (API)

• FTP/HTTP• Sitemaps

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 TrovePicture 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 1300

Metadata display: ‘old catalogue style’ FRBR (works and grouped versions)

Topic based art searches

Hans HeysenQueenie McKenzieAlbert NamatjiraArthur Streeton

Rabbit proof fence

Teapots

Find and get information about artists and their artworks

Background research on topics by artists

Collecting art

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browse

groups/

zones

Single search

Restrict

search

Refine/limit search results

Get item

groups/zones results

Hans Heysen (1877-1968)

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Is it in copyright?

How do I refer to it?

How can I get it?

OnlineBorrow

BuyCopy

Hidden archives

Full text newspapers

Interviews, oral history, video, music

Biographies

Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube

Pictures – digitised and notMinimise 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

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Show all corrections

Context – Tools - Lists

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Lists

• 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

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

Volunteers

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 Forum12. 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 LinksThis 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/marketinge.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

rholley@nla.gov.au

rholley@nla.gov.au

Finding the pieces and putting them together for you.

Questions?