1. Service updates: People Australia ARROW Discovery Service Picture Australia Basil Dewhurst Manager, Resource Discovery Services bdewhurst@nla.gov.au

2. Overview People Australia ARROW Discovery Service Picture Australia

3. People Australia People Australia will be an online service that: Takes a topic based approach to resource discovery Provides access to records about people and organisations Allows users to find and get resources, by/about a person or organisation Interoperates with contributing services

4. People Australia Project progress 2006-07 –Analysis and design –Search prototype Future work 2007-08 –Harvester –Data administration –Web services

5. ARROW Discovery Service http://search.arrow.edu.au

6. ARROW DS

7. ARROW DS 2006-07

8. ARROW DS 2007-08 ARROW Redevelopment –Increase access to Australian research –Streamline metadata harvesting –Improve statistics and reporting –Explore making online journals available

9. Picture Australia 2006-07 New image records 178,642 (13% increase) 4 New Contributors: –ANU Canberra School of Art –Monash University Centre for Gippsland Studies –Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales –Curtin University Library 49 Contributors / 106 Collections

10. Picture Australia Redesign

13. Picture Australia Flickr Contributors People, Places and Events Established January 2006 21,148 image records 714 members Ourtown Established March 2007 873 images 119 members

14. Picture Australia 2007-08 Implementation of the new design Flickr Trail blazing National Photography Festival Google seeding

15. Service updates: People Australia ARROW Discovery Service Picture Australia Basil Dewhurst Manager, Resource Discovery Services bdewhurst@nla.gov.au