trove: more than a treasure? alia conference presentation 2010 brisbane by rose holley
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Describes the innovative development of Trove at the National Library of Australia. Trove is a search engine for Australians about Australians. It contains 90 million items from over 1000 contributing organisations.TRANSCRIPT
Rose Holley: Trove Manager
Resource Sharing and Innovation
National Library of Australia
ALIA Conference, Brisbane
1-3 September 2010
Trove: More than a treasure?
How finding information just became easier
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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. “
“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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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
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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
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IT Development
The ‘art of with’ Charles Leadbeater
Not to peopleNot for people
WITH PEOPLE (USERS)
Public feedback drives the development:CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING
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browse
groups/
zones
Single search
Restrict
search
8Refine/limit search results
groups/zones results
Get item
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Grouping of versions
Get options
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Buy
Add tag
Add comment
merge/split versions and works if incorrect
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person information
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minimise
expand
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Minimised zones
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2020
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Context – Tools - Lists
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Burke and Wills List
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User generated content
http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37255844 By Nomad Tales
24http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/37288101 Flexigel
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http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper
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Search or browse – date, state, title
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Limit Results
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Show activity in results
RSS feeds
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Interaction at article level
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Fix text – power edit mode
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Show all corrections
Hall of Fame
Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010
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User profile
Your settings and history
History
User Forum
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10,000 an hour
Trove activity in an average day
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1,000
2,000
3,000
4,000
5,000
6,000
7,000
1am 4am 7am 10am 1pm 4pm 7pm 10pm
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.
Family historians
Librarians
Recreational researchers
students
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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
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Trove: Future developments
1. Updating content – existing contributors
2. Expanding content – new contributors
3. Sharing content – API
4. Improving e-journal access and authentication
http://trove.nla.gov.au/general/marketing
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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
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Harriet Rubin
Libraries need to think they are leading a mass
movement, not just serving a clientele…..
Charles Leadbeater
Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you
can unleash…