TROVE

TROVE MARIE-LOUISE AYRES

Trove at 5

Are we there yet?

Damian McDonald, 2007, Eureka Tower, Southbank, Melbourne

Greg Power, 2005, London Road, Clayfield

Louis Seselja, 2005, Cleveland Street Townsville

Louis Seselja, 2005, Macquarie Street Dubbo

Louis Seselja, 2005, Aerial view of Coonamble [?]

Louis Seselja, 2005, Aerial view of Longreach

98%

Troveictionaryretroveal n. information sourced from Troveto trove v. to seek information in Trovetroveable adj. able to be found in Trovetrovearium n. nurturing environment for Trove products, home of the family API with progeny @TroveBot,@TroveNewsBot. queryPic, Trove traces with new family members regularly added. AskTrove is a new member of this family.troveatorium n. houses working spaces for Tim, Paul and the trovekerstrovectionary n. sweet unexpected findstrovee n. beneficiary of Trove informationtrovefully adv.troveia n. tidbits of information seemingly useless but great for pub nights or as conversation starterstroveial adj. (see troveia)troveient adj. well suited for inclusion in Trovetroveite n. one addicted to Trovetroveitis n. addictive disease prone to strike late at nighttroveker n. a data worker, manager, librarian within the troveatoriumtrovel v. to dig around in Trovetroveller n. an information digger a.k.a. family historiantrovement n. repository for found informationtroveor n. major contributor to Trovetrover n. seeker of informationtrovesty n. misleading OCR errors…

Courtesy Carmel Galvin, Library Currants

137,485,663 lines

354 work years

$23.1 million

‘…its all about more content

Eventually maybe, although I will probably not live to see it, Australian patents and the various state and commonwealth gazettes will be available within Trove. Perhaps in decades to come the major Australian museums and art galleries will mount their collection databases and images into Trove. ABC archives too one day? … digitised Australian books … a phone app…’

Louis Seselja, 2003, Community Heritage Grant Awards

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Jennifer Green, 2010, Audience for Peter Cundall lecture

65%

The average Troveite50+City dwellerFemaleWell offWell educatedProfessionalEmployed or retired

Louis Seselja, 2008, School holiday program

Greg Power, 2010, Olympic Parade

Damian McDonald, 2008, Crowds watch Young Murph

Craig Mackenzie, 2008, Torch Relay for Beijing Olympic Games

Damien McDonald, 2008, Canberra Multicultural Festival

Damien McDonald, 2008, Canberra Multicultural Festival

Louis Seselja, 1999, Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Louis Seselja, 2010, Barkindji Elders

Louis Seselja, 2005, Djakapurra Munyarryun

Greg Power, 2008, Chooky Dancers

Are we there yet?

Trovaborate

Work jointly on an activity or project

Cooperation, alliance, partnership, participation, combination, association, teamwork, joint effort

Working together

Trove at 10

Where will there be?And who will Trove serve?

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