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International Congress of Archives Web 2.0 Workshop, Brisbane 24 August 2012 Presenter: Rose Holley [email protected] BUILDING AND MANAGING ONLINE COMMUNITIES A case study: Australian Newspapers and Trove

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International Congress of Archives

Web 2.0 Workshop, Brisbane 24 August 2012

Presenter: Rose Holley

[email protected]

BUILDING AND MANAGING ONLINE COMMUNITIES

A case study: Australian Newspapers and Trove

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Overview

National Library of Australia

• Australian Newspapers Service 2007- 2010

• Trove single discovery service 2010-2012

Presentation focuses on user engagement and online community

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2007 http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp

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National Program and Content• Initial focus on

major titles from each state and territory

• ‘Regional’ titles contributed by libraries 2010 onwards

• Coverage: published between 1803 – 1954 - 1984

• 7 million pages = 70 million articles

West Australian

Northern Territory Times

Courier Mail

Advertiser

Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Gazette

Argus

Mercury

Canberra Times

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Newspapers 1803 to 1954

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Australian Women’s Weekly 1932-1982

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Mass Digitisation:Hard copy and microfilm

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Building National Infrastructure

• Storage

• Newspaper Content Management system (digitisation workflow)

• Panel of digitisation contractors (mass digi)

• Quality assurance processes and team

• Public delivery system

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Articles go into public beta system

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Text correction- testing user engagement

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Greatest fears!

• No one will do it

OR• People will deliberately vandalise the text.

Questions? • Moderation?• Login?• Integration of user data?

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Fix text – power edit mode

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Show all corrections

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Interaction at article level

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Add a tag ‘titanic sinking’

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Add a comment

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After enhancements

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Public feedback on the feature

‘OCR text correction is great! I think I just found my new hobby!’

‘It’s looking like it will be very cool and the text fixing and tagging is quite addictive.’

‘An interesting way of using interested readers “labour”! I really like it.’

‘A wonderful tool - the amount of user control is very surprising but refreshing.’

‘I applaud the capability for readers to correct the text.’

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Why do it?• I love it• It’s interesting and fun• It is a worthy cause• It’s addictive• I am helping with something important e.g.

recording history, finding new things• I want to do some voluntary work• I want to help non-profit making organisations like

libraries• I want to learn something• It’s a challenge• I want to give something back to the community• You trust me to do it so I’ll do it

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“Who are the text correctors?”

Flickr: LucLeqay

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User base

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757,716 lines improved

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Don’t stop correcting!

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Achievements

Aug 2012 (4 yrs since release) 60,000+ volunteer text correctors 92 million lines of text corrected

in 4 million articles 1.6 million tags added 45,500 comments added 4 million users 70 million articles

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92 million lines corrected Aug 2012

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Build on success – create Trove

• Same infrastructure and principles• Digital AND non digital• Australian Galleries, Libraries, Archives,

Museums (GLAM)• Full-text (books, newspapers) GOOGLE• User-generated content Flickr, YouTube,

Wikipedia

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NLA Strategic Directions 2009

“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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Trove Strategy 2010 -2012

Grow Content

Develop Service

Engage with community

Promote

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browse

zones

Single search

Restrict

search

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Refine/limit search results

Get item

Groups results

in zones

Use API’s for Wikipedia, Amazon, Google video…

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Features

Tag, comment, list, send link to, cite, check copyright

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Text correctors - Hall of Fame

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User Profile –activity and ranking

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Alerting to new content

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‘Lists’ to record your finds and add notes

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Wikipedia interactions

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Wikipedia citation style

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Lionel Logue – The King’s Speech

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Wikipedia links to Trove sources

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User Forum

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Feedback Christmas Day 2010

3000 comments and feedback received in 2010

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User generated content: photos

http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37255844 By Nomad Tales47

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http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37288101 Flexigel

Family photos – identify people

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Institutional list for virtual exhibs

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Educators List – Teaching aid

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Re-purposing information and sharing

Blog using newspaper

articles

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http://lynnwalsh.wordpress.com

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Trove Blog

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Trove Tweets

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New Years Eve 2010

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Public raise money for digitisation

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Rockhampton ‘Trovers’

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Brisbane Floods – 2011, 1974,1893

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http://climatehistory.com.au This landmark project, spanning the sciences and the humanities, draws together a team of leading climate scientists, water managers and historians to better understand south-eastern Australian climate history over the past 200–500 years. It is the first study of its kind in Australia.

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Media Coveragehttp://www.abc.net.au/news/video/2010/04/29/2885984.htm

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Trove screencasting on YouTube

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Trove promotional video

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Being in the club

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Monitoring activity in an average day

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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.

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Search phrase Wordle Jan 2011

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Ravelry – vintage knitting patterns

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NOVEL IDEAS

“The earliest novel that I collected was 'The Miser's Daughter' by William Harrison Ainsworth. It was serialised in The Colonial Times, Hobart starting in Aug. 1842. It is enjoyable being able to read a story while doing the text correction. The added bonus is being able to put them online in e-book format for others to read. The process is quite time-consuming and can take longer than the original newspaper text-correcting, but it is very rewarding. So far I have managed to create 105 e-books from the newspaper text in the last 18 months. I upload the e-books to Project Gutenberg Australia. I found recently that some of the stories that we have uploaded have since been copied by some other websites and set up in different file formats. Some of the stories have even been put onto Amazon.com.”

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14 Keys to success for crowdsourcing

1. Clear and big goal on homepage

2. Progress towards goal is visible

3. Site is quick and reliable

4. Activity easy and fun

5. Results/outcome visible

6. Simple rewards and acknowledgements given

7. Content or topic is interesting (history, science, animals, personal)

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8. Volunteer profiles are open and visible9. Volunteers have an online team

environment e.g. wiki, forum10. Volunteers have choices on how to work11. We assume work will be done well and

volunteers can be trusted12. The site is alive with new content13.Site owner listens to ‘super’ volunteers

carefully14. Topical/news events are used to your

advantage

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Management of the crowd

• Volunteers largely manage each other

• Make their activity transparent to everyone

• Be IT savvy use – forums, blogs, wiki’s to help

• Make it easy for volunteers to contact you direct if they see an issue.

• ‘Shepherd’ rather than manage volunteers – can be done an hour a week.

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The Crowd• Once content is liberated

anyone can become a ‘researcher’.

• The ‘ivory tower’ of gated and protected knowledge is gone.

• ‘Formal’ scholars are replaced by the crowd in the cloud.

• Today’s public are educated and engaged, demonstrated by their participation in citizen science projects.

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Expectations of online users“Self service, satisfaction and seamlessness are definitive

of information seekers expectations. Ease of use, convenience and availability are equally as important to information seekers as information quality and trustworthiness.”

2003 OCLC Environmental Scan

To interact with content,other users and theorganisation (web 2.0)

To be able to annotate content and contribute their own

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Important Things• 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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Where are the walls? There are no walls only

bridges:• People outside your

building are accessing information within it.

• People inside your building are accessing information from outside.

• Changing use of spaces.• Mobilisation of services.

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Power vs Freedom

“Freedom is actually a bigger game than power.

Power is about what you can control.

Freedom is about what you can unleash.”

Harriet Rubin

Rose says: We are gatekeepers who need to focus on

opening rather than closing doors….We need to change

institutional thinking.

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Thank you!

http://www.snotr.com/video/8965/