Rose Holley: Trove Manager Resource Sharing and Innovation National Library of Australia ARLIS ANZ Conference, Darwin 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 Holley Digital Projects Librarian University 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)

Collaborative Digital Image Delivery

The Future: single search (2002) Search and Navigation Interface Image Collections WebsitesDatabasesE-JournalsLibrary Catalogues

7 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

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

10 NLA Strategic Directions “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.”

11 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 Trove Picture AustraliaTrove Format : Images onlyImages, sound, video, books, archives, maps, websites, biographies, journals, newspapers, research outputs. Content type: Digital onlyDigital and non-digital Size: 2 million90 million User engagement: Add own imagesAdd own images AND forum, comments, tags, rating, lists, corrections. Subject Focus: Australian picturesAnything Australian Contributors: 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

14 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

15 IT Development Learning the ‘art of with’ Charles Leadbeater Not to people Not for people WITH PEOPLE (USERS) Public feedback drives the development: CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING

Topic based art searches Hans Heysen Queenie McKenzie Albert Namatjira Arthur Streeton Rabbit proof fence Teapots Find and get information about artists and their artworks Background research on topics by artists Collecting art

17 browse groups/ zones Single search Restrict search

Refine/limit search results Get item groups/zones results Hans Heysen ( )

20 Is it in copyright? How do I refer to it?

How can I get it? Online Borrow Buy Copy

Hidden archives

Full text newspapers

Interviews, oral history, video, music

Biographies

Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube

Pictures – digitised and not Minimise zones

Objects

Queenie McKenzie ( ) press clippings, invitations, ephemera

Conversations with women- finding aid

Archived websites

10 years of indigenous art for sale in Ochre Gallery

Background research for film

Collecting art – teapots on exhibition

Interaction at article level

Fix text – power edit mode

39 Show all corrections

Context – Tools - Lists

User generated content via Flickr

Tagging- useful for display adverts and images 43

44 User profile Your settings and history

User Forum 45

View user activity from homepage Saturday August 21, 10am

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Hall of Fame Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

10,000 an hour

Trove activity in an average day 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

53 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

54 Trove: Future developments 1.Updating content – existing contributors 2.Expanding content – new contributors 3.Sharing content – API 4.Improving e-journal access and authentication

55 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 55

Finding the pieces and putting them together for you. Questions?