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Revolutionising Digital Content
Judy Hutchinson (Parliamentary Library)Philip Anderson (SAIC)
•2000 – began to index newspaper articles in a full text searchable database, using an in-house thesaurus
•Now have in excess of 1.3 million records
•2010 - contracted SAIC to automate the process of selecting and indexing articles. Result was LAST – Library Authoring System and Thesaurus. Purpose-built.
•Articles available in minutes not hours
•Thesaurus headings chosen by best 5 fit out of possible 10,000
•Articles from Media Monitors chosen on Yes No Maybe basis
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Sink or Swim:Emma Taylor, WA Water Corporation
•Blog
First blog started in 2004 on free Blogger platform
2006 – identified potential security risk in blog being accessible to public so changed to an open source blogging software which allowed blog to be published on intranet. Using BlogCFC, written in ColdFusion MX.
Very low usage until late 2007 due to subscription settings issue
Usage now gone from 2 hits per day to 200
LIW 2010 presented top 10 subscribers with “Water News Frequent Reader” pens
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•Advent Calendar
Free MS Office template
•Podcasts and Screencasts
Identified rural and remote staff under-utilising the library & missing out on training
Info Literacy training sessions made available via Podcast & screencast
Created podcasts themselves using a microphone and the free version of software WavePad. Flashback software for screencasts.
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Mobile, Social, Digital CollectionsSebastian Chan, Powerhouse Museum
The Powerhouse has embraced collaboration with other institutions, user-generated tagging and open-platform sharing via sites such as Flickr and
Google Maps.
•Photo Library
250,000 images, 80% digitised. As many as possible rights cleared for use under Creative Commons Non-commercial
Blog site features a new image each day
Then and now images
Flickr imagesA developer created a google mashup to show the old images and current view of same location from google maps street view.
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The bandstand, Hyde ParkScanned at very high resolution to enable reproduction as an 8 metre backdrop to 2008 Sydney Festival
Exploring the bandstand, Hyde Park
•Electronic swatchbook
Museum holds swatchbooks of fabric, braid and lace samples from 1830s – 1990s
A selection of samples from 1890s to 1920s available online