1. 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) rholley@nla.gov.au Warning: This presentation contains the names of Aboriginal people now deceased

2. DEVELOPMENTS IN ACCESS TO ART INFORMATION (Part 1) ARLIS ANZ Conference April 2002 Rose Holley Digital Projects Librarian University of Auckland

3. 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.

4. The Digital Pie (2002)

5. Collaborative Digital Image Delivery

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

7. 7 Welcome to the Future! 2010

8. 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/

9. 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. 10 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.”

11. 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

12. 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: 601300 Metadata display: ‘old catalogue style’FRBR (works and grouped versions)

13. 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. 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. 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

16. 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. 17 browse groups/ zones Single search Restrict search

18. Refine/limit search results Get item groups/zones results Hans Heysen (1877-1968)

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

21. How can I get it? Online Borrow Buy Copy

22. Hidden archives

23. Full text newspapers

24. Interviews, oral history, video, music

25. Biographies

27. Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube

28. Pictures – digitised and not Minimise zones

29. Objects

30. Queenie McKenzie (1915-1998) press clippings, invitations, ephemera

31. Conversations with women- finding aid

32. Archived websites

33. 10 years of indigenous art for sale in Ochre Gallery

34. 2009 2001

35. Background research for film

36. Collecting art – teapots on exhibition

37. Interaction at article level

38. Fix text – power edit mode

39. 39 Show all corrections

40. Context – Tools - Lists

42. User generated content via Flickr

43. Tagging- useful for display adverts and images 43

44. 44 User profile Your settings and history

45. User Forum 45

46. View user activity from homepage Saturday August 21, 10am

47. 47 47

48. Hall of Fame Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

49. 10,000 an hour

50. 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.

51. Family historians Librarians Recreational researchers students

52. http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing

53. 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. 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. 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

56. rholley@nla.gov.au Finding the pieces and putting them together for you. Questions?