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Rose Holley: Trove Manager
Resource Sharing and Innovation
National Library of Australia
ARLIS ANZ Conference, Darwin
15-17 September 2010
Developments in access
to art information (Part 2)
Warning: This presentation contains the names of Aboriginal people now deceased
DEVELOPMENTS IN ACCESS TO ART INFORMATION (Part 1)
ARLIS ANZ Conference April 2002
Rose HolleyDigital Projects LibrarianUniversity of Auckland
Overview (2002)How can we improve access and delivery of art
resources?
Is there a smarter way to access and manage art resources?
• Current delivery: users have to search multiple sites, know multiple interfaces and know how resources fit together
• Future developments in resource delivery, searching and navigation.
The Digital Pie (2002)
Digital ImageCollections Websites
Databases
E-Journals
Library Catalogues
Collaborative Digital Image Delivery
The Future: single search (2002)
Search and Navigation Interface
Image
Collections
Websites Databases
E-Journals
Library
Catalogues
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Welcome to the Future! 2010
The 2010 pie (bigger)
• Digital AND non digital• Galleries Libraries,
archives, museums (GLAM)
• Full-text (books, newspapers) GOOGLE
• User-generated content Flickr, YouTube, Wikipedia
www.neatorama.com/2008/11/26/crocheted-pie-hats/
Cutting the Pie
USA National Pie Day Jan 23
Regional?• All Australian stuff
together….Trove 90 mill• All NZ digital stuff
together…Digital NZ 2 mill• All Europe digital stuff
together. Europeana 10 mill
By topic?• Art Libraries net• Bio-diversity Heritage
Library
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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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Content sources
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
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)
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
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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
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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
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
User generated content via Flickr
Tagging- useful for display adverts and images
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User profile
Your settings and history
User Forum
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View user activity from homepage
Saturday August 21, 10am
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4747
Hall of Fame
Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010
10,000 an hour
Trove activity in an average day
0
1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
1am 4am 7am 10am 1pm 4pm 7pm 10pm
Pageviews (mirrors searching and text correction activity)
August 2010: Searching peaks at 11,000 per hour, text correction at 9,000 lines per hour, average number of unique users per day is 10,000.
Family historians
Librarians
Recreational researchers
students
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
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Important• Connections• Linkages• Related• Context
• Sharing• Re-purposing• Mashing• Adding
Giving users
• Access to resources
• Tools to do stuff
• Freedom and choices
•Ways to work collaboratively together
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Trove: Future developments
1. Updating content – existing contributors
2. Expanding content – new contributors
3. Sharing content – API
4. Improving e-journal access and authentication
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Trove dependant on…Collaboration across cultural heritage institutions
(digitisation, storage, service delivery, crowdsourcing, standards).
Data sharing
Being ‘open’ e.g. OAI, API’s
Changing institutional strategic thinking from power/control to freedom
New ideas and revisiting old ideas
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Finding the pieces and putting them together for you.
Questions?
