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Making the best use of Trove: Ben Pratten, National Library of AustraliaTRANSCRIPT
Making the best use of Trove
Ben Pratten
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Trove is…
• National Library’s discovery service about Australia and for Australians
• Almost 2000 organisations and over 300 million items– Not just libraries! (National Museum of Australia,
research repositories, Monument Australia, Dairy Australia, Powerhouse Museum, ABC Radio National, etc, etc, etc!)
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Trove is not just newspapers
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Cribb & Foote Department Store window display of Silktex StockingsIpswich, 1920s. Picture reproduced courtesy of Picture Ipswich. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/182302129
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Memorandum and articles of association. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8462463
Pins, petticoats and ploughs : Cribb & Foote, universal providers to Ipswich and district from 1849 to 1977 by Keith Jarrott.http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8407970
Address to shareholders delivered by the Chairman of Directors ... at the annual general meeting of shareholders of the Company, Cribb & Foote Limited. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/23208540
Advertising fan of English countryside for Cribb & Foote, Ipswich, 1931. Image courtesy of Picture Ipswich
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180656525
Ipswich in the 20th century by Robin Buchananhttp://trove.nla.gov.au/work/169778266
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Queensland Times (Ipswich)(QLD. : 1909-1954) Saturday 13 November 1937. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article124599567
John Clarke Foote (1822-1895)John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, ca. 1870, http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/36899035
Benjamin Cribb (1807-1874)Australian Dictionary of Biographyhttp://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1466179
More notable collections in Trove
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The Australian Women’s Weekly
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ABC Radio National
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PANDORA Web Archive
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General Trove tips
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Digitised Newspapers
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Text correcting
Why correct text?
• Text created through OCR is searched by Trove• OCR is not always accurate• Correcting the text improves accuracy of the
text• Every correction improves search results for all
users
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Community involvement
• 121 million lines corrected• Over 100,000 users• Range from 1 correction to 2 million +
corrections
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Community involvement
• Text correction is free• No need to register• Registered users can:
– See their correction history– Appear in the Hall of Fame
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What to do
• Fix the OCR text so it matches what was published
• Match the line of text to the same line on the image
• Correcting names of people, places, organisations and dates are the most useful corrections
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What not to do
• Add text not in the original newspaper• Change the text from what was originally
published• Move text so that it does not match the line it
was originally in
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Power searching in the Digitised Newspapers
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Numbers
• 123+ Million articles• 12+ Million pages• 660+ titles
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Start broad, then refine
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Make friends with quotation marks• Phrase search
– Put search terms in quotation markse.g. “Tom Smith”
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Near search
• Put search terms in quotation marks, then use the tilde to specify a numbere.g. “Tom Smith”~2
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Tom Smith
“Tom Smith” and “Tom Smith” ~2
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“Tom Smith”~2
“Tom Smith”
Get Boolean• OR search
– Search for articles containing either terme.g. “tom smith” OR “T E Smith”
• AND search– Search for articles containing all terms
e.g. (“tom smith” OR “T E Smith”) AND brenede
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(“T E Smith” OR “Tom Smith”) AND brenede
“Tom Smith” AND brenede
Finding common words as names
• Near search– Use an honorific with the name
e.g. “Mr White”~1– Can add additional terms, such as place
names
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White
“mr white”~1
Use a date
• date:[yyyy TO yyyy]– Search between two years
e.g. Gallipoli date:[1914 TO 1929]
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Go wild*
• *– Wildcard, search matches all words starting with
the characters before the ‘*’e.g. Chin* matches China, Chinese, Chinaman etc.
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Other Trove features
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‘Cite this’
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Comments
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Tags
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Lists
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List making
• 6690 Trove users• 32,453 public lists• 525,591 items
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all Lists
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Beyond Trove…
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http://dhistory.org/querypic/create
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http://wraggelabs.com/shed/headline-roulette/cats/
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http://trovenewsbot.tumblr.com/
Treasure Explorer
Keeping up to date
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RSS
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Coming Soon
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News
@TroveAustralia
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@nlagovau
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Blogs
Questions?
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