Queensland Memory - Outreach

creating online public access to Queensland’s cultural heritage resources

Margie Barram, Library Applications Gavin Bannerman, Heritage Collections

State Library of Queensland

ALIA Information Online 2009

Topics covered

• Assessing demand for an Outreach service

• Developing the Outreach model

• Standards framework for digital images

• Receiving and displaying images

• Technological innovations and infrastructure

• Future directions for Outreach

Crocodile caught in the Logan River at Logan VillageBeaudesert Shire Library [now Scenic Rim Regional Council library services] image number: qbsc00031

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• connectivity

• content

• competencies

Online Public Access in Libraries [OPAL]

Aim to increase:

Adelaide and Ellena Streets during the 1893 floodMaryborough Municipal Library [now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] image number: qmar00126

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Picture Queensland – outreach?

• access: provide a portal for clients to access to statewide images resources

• content: Increase the number of unique Queensland digital images

• empowerment: assist staff from local public libraries and other cultural institutions to digitise their local images

and make them available online

• Hindsight: Digitising Queensland Community Images: A Scoping Study, 2002

• Picture Queensland – Outreach: goals

Developing OutreachCurrent model for adding contributors

• Identify organisations interested

• Form an agreement

• Deliver training in digital imaging, indexing and procedures

• Receive digital images and records

• Facilitate display of images through Picture Queensland and Picture Australia

Pialba HotelHervey Bay Library[now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] image number: qhbp00085

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Joint Agreement For the provision of the

Picture Queensland digital image collection

• State Library of Queensland – quality checking, storage, processing and hosting of images and their records; promotion; image ordering service; support and advisory services; provision of statistics

• Contributor – provide images and records to required standard; submit information for online profiles; specify preferred service options

Local bathing beauties standing at Kings Beach, 1927Caloundra City Libraries [now Sunshine Coast Regional Libraries] image number : P88002

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Agreement options

• Who stores the master images?

• What file naming scheme they use ?

• Who handles online image orders?

• How they will create metadata records?

Contributors have the ability to choose:

South Brisbane during the January 1974 flood at the future site redeveloped for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre

QPAC Archives and Library [image number: qpa00002]

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We have standards!…For images and metadata records

• Images - TIFF format, 6000 pixels longest side and 600 ppi (black-and-white), 4000 pixels longest side and 400 ppi (colour)

• Metadata records - Guidelines for cataloguing images using the Picture Queensland web form

Outreach’s coverage

Croydon workshop, 2006

Outreach trainingTopics covered:

• Copyright

• Digitisation project planning

• Protocols for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Collections

• Scanning and image editing

• Indexing and metadata

• Preservation

Ivor RodgersMackay Libraries [image number:qmc02433]

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Digitising images

Contributors create digital images:

• Source of originals

• Staff do scanning (flat-bed scanners)

• Saved to Picture Queensland standard

• Send images to SLQ on CD/DVD

• Option for ftp

John Drysdale Memorial Clock, Queen Street, Ayr, 1935

Burdekin Library image number: bur00081

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• Web form

• Extract sent from local database conversion to Dublin Core

using MarcEdit

Creating recordsTwo methods for receiving metadata records:

Feathertail GliderAcrobates pygmaeus

Queensland Museumimage number: acrobates_pygmaeus_mb409_qm

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Picture Queensland web formBenefits

• Suits organisations without local database

• Allows contributors to edit pre-existing records

• Access anytime, anywhere

• Password controlled – allows feedback to individual cataloguers

• no knowledge or access to the catalogue required to complete the form

Group of fishermen looking pleased with their catch, Chinchilla, QueenslandChinchilla Shire Library[now Dalby Regional Libraries] image number: chi00058

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Local databases

Benefits

• No need to re-skill staff

• Contributors index using their local system and workflows

• Contributors retain local copy of record

• Able to utilise pre-existing records

• Clients can find images within local library OPAC

• Library equipment and support already in place

Fred Muller family behind the Aratula Railway Station, 1947Boonah Archives[partner of Boonah Library, now Scenic Rim Regional library services] image number: ba0853

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Enriching local cataloguesBurdekin Catalogue pilot

• Contributors gain local copy of record in catalogue

• Clients can find images within local library OPAC

• Library equipment and support already in place

Erub (Torres Strait)workshop 2007

Outreach expandedIncluded:• Training members of Aboriginal and Torres Strait

Islander communities to document and record their local history and culture

• Oral histories

• Digital storytelling

• Sharing digital images

• Safekeeping

John Deere cotton picker, Biloela District, Queensland, 1955Banana Shire Library [image number: ban00033]

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What’s in store?We are facing:

• More born-digital images

• More images held by non-libraries

• More images held by individuals

• More demand for contemporary images

• Competing priorities

• Change in technical infrastructure

Advertisement, Gympie,1899Cooloola Shire Library [now Gympie Regional Libraries] image number: 00079_Cooloola

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Future Outreach activities?State Library of Queensland’s direction…

• Simpler agreements for contributing organisations

• Tailor to the different requirements of the organisation depending on their size

• Work with new amalgamated library services to consolidate bringing cultural heritage resources online

• Migrate to DigiTool

• User space in the digital library

• Participate in Flickr Commons

• Introduce Creative Commons licensing

Axeman on a springboard felling a quondong tree, Atherton Tablelands

Atherton Shire Library[now Tablelands Regional Library Service]image number: ath00005

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For more information• Training/support enquiries:

Kate McDonald, Outreach Librarian, Heritage Collections, (07) 3842 9239, kate.mcdonald@slq.qld.gov.au

• Government departments/joint agreement enquiries: Anna Raunik, Executive Manager, Resource Discovery, (07) 3840 7828, anna.raunik@slq.qld.gov.au

• Technical details: Margie Barram, Senior Librarian, Digital Applications, Resource Discovery, (07) 3840 7821, margaret.barram@slq.qld.gov.au

http://pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/home/resources/contributor_resources

Grand Hotel staff, 1912Bundaberg Library [image number:qbun00007]

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Barcaldine Cricket Club members, ca. 1910Barcaldine Library [now Barcaldine Regional Council library services] image number: bar00047

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15Hinchinbrook Shire Library

Image number: hin00013

Grader school, St. Lawrence, ca. 1964Broadsound Shire Library[now Isaac Regional Council library services] image number: bro00033

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Children seated at table in Mount Isa Day Nursery, October 1948Mt Isa City Library [image number: isa00051]

FrancisGoriss, with daughter Holly, on his motorised bicycle, Babinda, ca. 1958

Cairns Libraryimage number: cai00007

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Pioneers of the Upper North Pine (Dayboro) district, 1903Pine Rivers Libraries [now Moreton Bay Region Libraries] image number: pin2249

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“The user manual for the digitisation process that was received is very helpful.” Mount Morgan participant in Outreach Workshop

“very well prepared & well run training program. Thank you & well done.”Cairns participant in Outreach Workshop

“By simply googling the name of my grandfather, up popped your site with a photograph of my great grandfather (Dr. J. J. Egan). I have never seen a photo of my great granddad and am looking forward to a surviving relative identifying him in the pic. Thanks!” Client feedback on Outreach partner’s image

“Very helpful with my research on your Rack railway at Mt Morgan and ours here in Queenstown Tasmania congratulations well done. Thank you.”Client feedback on Outreach partner’s image

Queensland Memory – OutreachTop 10 most viewed partner images

As of December 2008

Crocodile caught in the Logan River at Logan VillageBeaudesert Shire Library [now Scenic Rim Regional Council library services] image number: qbsc00031

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Flooding in Brisbane Street, Beaudesert, 1990Beaudesert Shire Library [now Scenic Rim Regional Council library services] image number:qbsc00016

Adelaide and Ellena Streets during the 1893 floodMaryborough Municipal Library [now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] number: qmar00126

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Pialba HotelHervey Bay Library [now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] image number: qhbp00085

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Local bathing beauties standing at Kings Beach, 1927Caloundra City Libraries [now Sunshine Coast Regional Libraries] image number : P88002

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Kent and Adelaide Streets, Maryborough during a hail storm, August 1924Maryborough Municipal Library [now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] image number: qmar00067

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Bullock team run by William Simpson, Maleny, ca 1900Caloundra City Libraries [now Sunshine Coast Regional Libraries] image number: P88081

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South Brisbane during the January 1974 flood at the future site redeveloped for the Queensland Performing Arts Centre

QPAC Archives and Library [image number: qpa00002]

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Historical slab hut, Beaudesert, 1983Beaudesert Shire Library [now Scenic Rim Regional Council library services] image number: qbsc00025

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Q. C. Gauchalland Mine, Howard, 1920Maryborough Municipal Library [now Fraser Coast Regional Libraries] image number: qhbp00014

                                                                                                                                                           

                                                                                                                                                               

                                                                                                            

                                   

                                                               

  

 

                                                                        

   

                                                                         

                                                     

  

 

Thank you to our terrific partnershttp://pictureqld.slq.qld.gov.au/home/contributors