improve your trove skills
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Improve your
Trove skills
Kirsten Perris &
Jennie Nicholl
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This session we will cover:
• Tags, lists & comments
• What they are
• How to use them for searching
• How to create your own
• Text correction of digitised newspapers
& Government gazettes
• What it is and how to do it
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What is Trove?
• Collection of information about
resources (aggregation of metadata)
• Digital content storage place
• Discovery service – 11 zones
• Community of content partners and
users
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How is Trove useful in family history
research?
• Links directly to previously
unsuspected or inaccessible details
• Provides clues to areas for further
research, e.g. court records
• “Fleshes out” our knowledge of
individual family members
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Tags
• keywords or labels that can be added
to items in Trove
• Can be used as a:
• description of topic, place, event,
person
• way to organise your research
• Access all items related to a ‘tag’ by
selecting a linked tag
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Lists
• Enable you to link different items in
Trove together
• Can be used to:
• Organise your research
• Pull together favourite resources
• Create lists that might be useful for
others
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Comments
• Added by Trove users
• Can help provide relevant information
about item such as
• Giving additional information
• Adding information about events
related to item
• Provide links to related items in Trove
• Are included in a Trove search
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Searching tags
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Searching lists
Access from Trove home page [bottom right corner]
Or enter a search and use “Lists” tab
http://trove.nla.gov.au/list/result
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Creating and adding
tags, lists & commentsBooks / Journals, articles and data sets /
Pictures, photos, objects
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Creating and adding
tags, lists & comments
• Digitised newspapers
• Government gazettes
Shows all Tags, Lists & Comments
Shows Tags only
Shows Lists only
Shows Comments only
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Text correction
Only available with the Digitised
newspapers and Government gazettes
sections
• Helps improve the accuracy in
searches of the newspapers and
gazettes.
• Provides better transcription printouts
of an article’s text.
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Any questions?
State Library of Queensland
Ask Us
07 3840 7810
www.slq.qld.gov.au/services/ask-us
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