Rose Holley: Trove Manager

Resource Sharing and Innovation

National Library of Australia

ARLIS ANZ Conference, Darwin

15-17 September 2010

Developments in access

to art information (Part 2)

rholley@nla.gov.au

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

DEVELOPMENTS IN ACCESS TO ART INFORMATION (Part 1)

ARLIS ANZ Conference April 2002

Rose HolleyDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Auckland

Overview (2002)How can we improve access and delivery of art

resources?

Is there a smarter way to access and manage art resources?

• Current delivery: users have to search multiple sites, know multiple interfaces and know how resources fit together

• Future developments in resource delivery, searching and navigation.

The Digital Pie (2002)

Digital ImageCollections Websites

Databases

E-Journals

Library Catalogues

Collaborative Digital Image Delivery

The Future: single search (2002)

Search and Navigation Interface

Image

Collections

Websites Databases

E-Journals

Library

Catalogues

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Welcome to the Future! 2010

The 2010 pie (bigger)

• Digital AND non digital• Galleries Libraries,

archives, museums (GLAM)

• Full-text (books, newspapers) GOOGLE

• User-generated content Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia

www.neatorama.com/2008/11/26/crocheted-pie-hats/

Cutting the Pie

USA National Pie Day Jan 23

Regional?• All Australian stuff

together….Trove 90 mill• All NZ digital stuff

together…Digital NZ 2 mill• All Europe digital stuff

together. Europeana 10 mill

By topic?• Art Libraries net• Bio-diversity Heritage

Library

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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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Content sources

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

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)

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

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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

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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

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

User generated content via Flickr

Tagging- useful for display adverts and images

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User profile

Your settings and history

User Forum

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View user activity from homepage

Saturday August 21, 10am

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4747

Hall of Fame

Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

10,000 an hour

Trove activity in an average day

0

1,000

2,000

3,000

4,000

5,000

6,000

7,000

1am 4am 7am 10am 1pm 4pm 7pm 10pm

Pageviews (mirrors searching and text correction activity)

August 2010: Searching peaks at 11,000 per hour, text correction at 9,000 lines per hour, average number of unique users per day is 10,000.

Family historians

Librarians

Recreational researchers

students

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Important• Connections• Linkages• Related• Context

• Sharing• Re-purposing• Mashing• Adding

Giving users

• Access to resources

• Tools to do stuff

• Freedom and choices

•Ways to work collaboratively together

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Trove: Future developments

1. Updating content – existing contributors

2. Expanding content – new contributors

3. Sharing content – API

4. Improving e-journal access and authentication

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Trove dependant on…Collaboration across cultural heritage institutions

(digitisation, storage, service delivery, crowdsourcing, standards).

Data sharing

Being ‘open’ e.g. OAI, API’s

Changing institutional strategic thinking from power/control to freedom

New ideas and revisiting old ideas

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rholley@nla.gov.au

rholley@nla.gov.au

Finding the pieces and putting them together for you.

Questions?