Developments in Access to Art Information: Trove. Presentation at ARLIS conference, Darwin, September 2010

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)
[email_address] Warning: This presentation contains the names of Aboriginal people now deceased

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

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.

The Digital Pie (2002)

Collaborative Digital Image Delivery

The Future: single search (2002) Search and Navigation Interface Image Collections Websites Databases E-Journals Library Catalogues

Welcome to the Future! 2010

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/

Cutting the Pie
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
USA National Pie Day Jan 23

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.”

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

Picture Australia vs Trove Picture Australia Trove Format : Images only Images, sound, video, books, archives, maps, websites, biographies, journals, newspapers, research outputs. Content type : Digital only Digital and non-digital Size: 2 million 90 million User engagement: Add own images Add own images AND forum, comments, tags, rating, lists, corrections. Subject Focus: Australian pictures Anything Australian Contributors: 60 1300 Metadata display : ‘old catalogue style’ FRBR (works and grouped versions)

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

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

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

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

browse groups/ zones Single search Restrict search

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

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

How can I get it? Online Borrow Buy Copy

Hidden archives

Full text newspapers

Interviews, oral history, video, music

Biographies

Wikipedia, Flickr, YouTube

Pictures – digitised and not Minimise zones

Objects

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

Conversations with women- finding aid

Archived websites

10 years of indigenous art for sale in Ochre Gallery

2009 2001

Background research for film

Collecting art – teapots on exhibition

Interaction at article level

Fix text – power edit mode

Show all corrections

Context – Tools - Lists

User generated content via Flickr

Tagging- useful for display adverts and images

User profile Your settings and history

User Forum

View user activity from homepage Saturday August 21, 10am

Hall of Fame Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

10,000 an hour

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.

Family historians Librarians Recreational researchers students

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

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

Trove: Future developments
Updating content – existing contributors
Expanding content – new contributors
Sharing content – API
Improving e-journal access and authentication

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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