ideas for how volunteers at cultural heritage institutions can help, using trove as a tool. november...
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Every cultural heritage institution has a large body of willing volunteers. this presentation gives some ideas for how they can usefully help you, using Trove as a tool. The presentation is Art related and was written for the National Gallery of Australia but is equally applicable to museums, libraries and archives.TRANSCRIPT
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Rose Holley: Trove Manager
National Library of Australia
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
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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
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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)
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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
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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?
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How can I get it?
OnlineBorrow
BuyCopy
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Hidden archives
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Full text newspapers
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Interviews, oral history, video, music
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Biographies
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Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube
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Pictures – digitised and notMinimise zones
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Objects
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Queenie McKenzie (1915-1998)press clippings, invitations, ephemera
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Conversations with women- finding aid
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Archived websites
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10 years of indigenous art for sale in Ochre Gallery
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2009
2001
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Background research for film
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Collecting art – teapots on exhibition
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Interaction at article level
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Fix text – power edit mode
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Show all corrections
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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
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User generated content via Flickr
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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
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10,000 an hour
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Hall of Fame – thank you!!!
Total of 20 million lines corrected September 2010
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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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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.
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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.
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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.
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
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Finding the pieces and putting them together for you.
Questions?