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1.Trove isn’t just newspapers 3

4 Flinders Shire Historical Photograph Project A wedding portrait of John Turnbull McLaren and Mary McDougall McLean, Pictures Portrait of John T McLaren, 1935 Barrier Miner, (Broken Hill, NSW: ), 14 October 1915

5 Photograph of Captain Bentley & ​ Captain Rex Maritime Museum of Tasmania JAMES CRAIG (1874) Australian Register of Historic Vessels Pictures and objects Brass sextant …acquired by Captain DS Bull in 1877 as 3rd. mate of "Kosciusco"

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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 10 Why correct text?

Community involvement Text correction is free No need to register Registered users can: – See their correction history – Appear in the Hall of Fame 11

Community involvement 106 million lines corrected 100,000 users Range from 1 correction to 2 million+ corrections 12

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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 Use tags and comments to provide corrections to what was originally published 14

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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 16

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What are the forums for? Your space as Trove users Collaborate and communicate with other Trove users Community help resource News resource Create your account by logging in to Trove, then clicking on the ‘forum’ link 31

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Tips for using the forums Search first if you have a question, someone may have already asked it Use the ‘contact us’ form if you need input from a Trove team member Remember, the forums are a user space. 37

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Power searching in the digitisted newspapers 73

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Useful Search tools Phrase search – Put search terms in quotation marks e.g. “Tom Smith ” Near search – Put search terms in quotation marks, then use the tilde to specify a number e.g. “Tom Smith”~2 76

77 Tom Smith “ Tom Smith” and “Tom Smith” ~2

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Useful Search tools OR search – Search for articles containing either term e.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 79

80 (“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 81

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Useful Search tools fulltext: – Matches exact text only 83

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Useful Search tips Finding ship names – Add ‘ship’ or ‘shipping’ to your search e.g. Babcock ship – When sorted by relevance will push most relevant results to the top 85

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Useful Search tools date:[yyyy TO yyyy] – Search between two years e.g. Gallipoli date:[1914 TO 1929 ] * – Wildcard, search matches all words starting with the characters before the ‘*’ e.g. Chin* matches China, Chinese, Chinaman etc. 87

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