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

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

•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.

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.

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