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
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
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
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)
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
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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
User generated content via Flickr
Tagging- useful for display adverts and images
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User profile
Your settings and history
View user activity from homepage
Saturday August 21, 10am
10,000 an hour
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Hall of Fame – thank you!!!
Total of 20 million lines corrected September 2010
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
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.
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.
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.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
Finding the pieces and putting them together for you.
Questions?