Service updates : People Australia ARROW Discovery Service Picture Australia

Service updates:People Australia

ARROW Discovery ServicePicture Australia

Basil DewhurstManager, Resource Discovery Servicesbdewhurst@nla.gov.au

Overview

• People Australia• ARROW Discovery Service• Picture Australia

People Australia

People Australia will be an online service that:• Takes a topic based approach to resource

discovery• Provides access to records about people and

organisations• Allows users to find and get resources, by/about

a person or organisation• Interoperates with contributing services

People Australia

• Project progress 2006-07– Analysis and design– Search prototype

• Future work 2007-08– Harvester– Data administration– Web services

ARROW Discovery Service

http://search.arrow.edu.au

ARROW DS

ARROW DS 2006-07

ARROW DS 2007-08

• ARROW Redevelopment– Increase access to Australian research– Streamline metadata harvesting– Improve statistics and reporting– Explore making online journals available

Picture Australia 2006-07

• New image records 178,642 (13% increase)• 4 New Contributors:

– ANU Canberra School of Art – Monash University Centre for Gippsland Studies – Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales– Curtin University Library

• 49 Contributors / 106 Collections

Picture Australia Redesign

Picture Australia Redesign

Picture Australia Redesign

Picture Australia Flickr Contributors

• People, Places and Events• Established January 2006• 21,148 image records• 714 members

• Ourtown • Established March 2007• 873 images• 119 members

Picture Australia 2007-08

• Implementation of the new design

• Flickr

• Trail blazing

• National Photography Festival

• Google seeding

Service updates:People Australia

ARROW Discovery ServicePicture Australia

Basil DewhurstManager, Resource Discovery Servicesbdewhurst@nla.gov.au