TROVE - Discovering community heritage - Cathie Oats (NLA)
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TROVE - Discovering community heritage by Cathie Oats (NLA). Presented at the 2016 Community Heritage Grants Preservation and Collection Management Training Workshops.
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TROVE - Discovering community heritage - Cathie Oats (NLA)
- 1. Trove Discovering community heritage Cathie Oats 1 Director, Trove
- 2. PART ONE: ABOUT TROVE PART TWO: TROVE & COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS 2
- 3. 3 Étienne Grandchamp, (2015). Français : Charleroi - Passage de la Bourse - librairie et bouquiniste Fafouille . CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia commons
- 4. Anna Sippel (2013). Pacman threatening the Moon. Swinburne University of Technology. CC- BY-NC-ND
- 5. Negative (1925). Man & Dog Searching for Snakes in a Haystack, Corindhap, Victoria, circa 1925. Museum Victoria. Out of copyright.
- 6. Hans Adler in a corner of his music room CC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia commons
- 7. H.V. McKay Pty Ltd, Sunshine Harvester Works (1910). Photograph - H.V. McKay, Harvesting, circa 1910. CC-BY-4.0, Museum Victoria.
- 8. Archibald J. Campbell 1895, Photograph - Finding an Emu's Nest, by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, 1895. CC-BY-4.0, Museum Victoria.
- 9. Archibald J. Campbell 1895, Photograph - Finding an Emu's Nest, by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, 1895, C Henshaw (1929). Negative - Saint Laurence, Queensland, 1929. CC-BY-4.0, Museum Victoria.
- 10. Janette Garrad (2011). Gazebo built on Shorncliffe Pier for a United Kingdom commercial, Shorncliffe, Queensland. CC-BY-4.0, Picture Queensland ~ State Library of Queensland
- 11. ArchivesACT (1963). INT694-21 - Sheds at No 12. CC BY-NC 2.0, ArchivesACT
- 12. Erik Stranberg (2006), A toolbox, from Biltema, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia commons.
- 13. Feb 25, 2015, London telephone booth, long exposure lights. CC0, Pexels.
- 14. Feb 25, 2015, London telephone booth, long exposure lights. CC0, Pexels.
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- 17. COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS Case studies
- 18. Queensland Women’s Heritage Association • Awarded a grant for $4,950 in 2015 for a significance assessment of the collection • 272 items in Trove 18
- 19. Matron Sadie MacDonald • One of them is about Matron Sadie MacDonald… • First World War Royal Red Cross medal • Diggers’ Friend • Medal is in the ‘Pictures, photos, objects’ zone 19 Garrard & Co. LTD First World War Royal Red Cross medal and miniature of Matron Sadie Macdonald. QLD Women’s Historical Association cc-by Attribution
- 20. Matron Sadie MacDonald • In the newspapers zone I learn more of her story • One of 6 nurses in the Macdonald family! • Long term commitment to returned soldiers 20 Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 - 1941), Wednesday 23 April 1930, page 12
- 21. Matron Sadie MacDonald • Here she is! • With another medal, the Florence Nightingale medal, in 1953 • Image from the SLQ 21 State Library of QLD: John Oxley Library cc-by Attribution
- 22. Matron Sadie McDonald! • A little Trove tip - always try alternative spellings • To recap, a medal from the Queensland Women’s Heritage Association, took me to a story about the MacDonald family, and then on to further explore the story of this extraordinary woman. 22 Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Friday 18 June 1943, page 2 cc-by Attribution
- 23. Berrima and District Family History Society • Awarded several CHG grants • 2009: Preservation Needs Assessment and archival storage materials • 2014: Archival storage materials and equipment; image scanning; software
- 24. Berrima and District Family History Society • Digitised image library • Watched the collection grow as more images have been added…but how do we know this?
- 25. Berrima and District Family History Society 2015 – 889 2016 – 1,546
- 26. Thank you & Questions? 26 For more information… Contact us using the link in the top right hand side of every page in Trove. Join our Facebook community at https:// www.facebook.com/TroveAustralia. Follow us on Twitter at @TroveAustralia. We tweet about collections to find in Trove, interesting items we find and any service updates.
Editor's Notes
- Hi, my name is Cathie Oats and I am the Director of the Trove service at the National Library of Australia. As I begin, I ‘d like to acknowledge and offer my gratitude to the Traditional Owners of the land on which this event is taking place, and Elders both past and present. I also recognise all those whose ongoing effort to protect and promote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and all cultures will leave a lasting legacy for future generations. But before we start – a question. Who here has used Trove? Can you tell me a little bit about what you did?
- The talk will be in two parts – a brief overview of Trove and then some information on Trove and the recipients of Community Heritage Grants.
- Here in this wonderful image of a collection of collections you can get an idea of what Trove is all about… “Trove” – meaning a “treasure trove”. The name is from the French “trouver”, a verb meaning to find, or to discover. The name suggests the three concepts of a collection, of treasured or valuable collection items, and the process of discovery.
- Trove is like a telescope which you can look through to find Australian content. It connects people to resources by aggregating data from collections around our country. Over half a billion online resources, and the 4th most visited Commonwealth government website in Australia. So, it’s big and it’s popular…but why is it important?
- There are about 1400 collections in Trove. It’s a collaboration between the National Library, State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research institutions around Australia. So, if you are looking for a snake in a haystack, as my friend on the slide is, I am sure you will find it in Trove.
- Everything you can see in this ‘study’ is available and connected by linked data in Trove. Books, pictures, photos, journals, newspapers, government gazettes, music, videos, diaries, letters, archived websites, maps and people are all linked, so I can search Trove and link researchers to their work and to funding grants.
- Technically, Trove works by harvesting content from all the collections sites. It reads by going out to a web-accessible repository and copies any records available. Then transforms - Changes those records a web ready format according to a series of processing steps and then writes - Puts those records into Trove.
- Imagine that Trove is like a train, the engine is fuelled by a combination of purpose built and open source software. The carriages are where the harvested collections end up – and then the metadata, puts the items in the collections into the correct seat. In Trove, these are called zones.
- This gentleman is pointing to an emu’s next he has found…but for the life of me I can’t see it, and that’s a bit like searching and wandering in Trove. It’s such a large collection we can only begin to help you find things through a general or advanced search. You can also use one the curated finding aids.. But browsing is where the beauty of discovering new things really exisits – this is where you can find incredible connections because of the linked data.
- Once you have found items its important to know what you can access. All of the digitised content can be explored online, most of the other content has clear indications of where it’s available, copyright and creative commons statements. A small amount of the content is locked away in the institution that houses the item for cultural, preservation or copyright reasons.
- Starting a search in Trove is interesting because of the design of the homepage. The way Trove was built in 2008 left little room for flexibility or change…it’s a bit like this clapped our old shed which has had a bit added on over time. The homepage can be a little intimidating but I encourage you to dive in and have a go. If you are overwhelmed with the results choose one zone and search within it. Once you are in Trove the functions for printing, downloading and zooming are fantastic!
- If people want to muck around in the toolbox and build things its free to do so. The Trove API has two licenses - commercial and non-commercial. The API is currently being used to create apps, display results on other websites, harvest records, retrieve tags or comments, and create visualisations.
- Trove doesn’t have a public phone number or email address. This is because the Trove team is unlikely to be able to provide information about a significant amount of the collection. It is very popular on Facebook, Twitter, has a forum and blogs – it’s a great way to keep up to date with what is going on. We even have a Twitter bot that tweets newspaper articles at the speed of light…
- And speaking of the Trove team, here they are, with one of very passionate Optical Character Recognition newspaper text correctors. The Trove community includes about 8000 very active members involved in text correcting. This photo was taken in early 2016, to celebrate Mr Neil Hamilton, who has corrected nearly 3 million lines. Is anyone here involved in text correcting?
- So, finally let me tell you a little bit about the variety and scale of discoverable content in Trove. Digitised Newspapers and more 203,784,410 Journals, articles and research 151,380,087 Archived websites (1996 - now) 115,424,117 Books 21,280,629 Pictures, photos, objects 8,390,501 Music, sound and video 4,243,480 Government Gazettes 2,320,236 People and organisation 1,097,608 Diaries, letters, archives 654,461 Maps 636,222 Lists 88,428 Total 509,300,179 But numbers aside, it’s the coming together of collections, which is so useful for people searching Trove. It's about taking these extraordinary Australian collections, particularly, items that are personal or often ephemeral and unique, these cultural and personal artefacts and turning a spotlight on them. It's about giving people glimpses into these pieces of the past and the present that might otherwise be completely overlooked, and hopefully offering them some inspiration for the future.
- Trove makes items that were once only available in community museums, local history collections, and reading rooms of state and national institutions accessible that is why it is important. It’s up to us to be inspired, to invent and to create….
- READ SLIDE A member of the Australian Army Nursing Service during World War I, Sadie MacDonald MBE, ARRC, FNM, JP, was known affectionately by many Queensland returned soldiers as ‘The Diggers’ Friend’. She had a life-long association with the military and with the profession of nursing in Queensland. Trained for five years at Gladstone Hospital. She served as matron at Gladstone Hospital from 1904 to 1907 and then nursed at private homes in Brisbane and Melbourne. From September 1910 Sadie was Matron at the Torres Strait General and Military Base Hospital on Thursday Island where she did what she called ‘war work’. In mid-1915, her sister, Flora, left Australia for war service in Europe. Sadie followed, embarking on RMS Morea for Suez in August that year. Initially attached to 1st Australian General Hospital [AGH] at Heliopolis, after eight months Sadie went on to France. She served at British and Australian Hospitals throughout the war as well as Australian and British Casualty Clearing Stations. In June 1918 she was awarded a Royal Red Cross 2nd Class, in recognition of conspicuous service with the armies of France and Flanders. Sadie was also one of the many Australians affected by influenza which put her in hospital for two weeks in early 1919. On the voyage home to Australia in July 1919, Sadie was in charge of the nursing staff aboard the Bremen.
- READ SLIDE Back in Australia, Sadie spent her life working for the benefit of returned servicemen and women. She was active in the Returned Nurses Club and was Matron of the Ardoyne Rest. Home in Corinda, Brisbane from 1920, she cared for ex-servicemen with advanced tuberculosis. Later, she was Matron at the Red Cross Convalescent Hospital at Chelmer. In 1948, aged 73, Sadie joined the Centaur Memorial Fund’s quest to establish a recreational and educational centre for the nursing profession. Sponsored by the Army in the “Queen of the Nurses’ Quest” Sadie and her committee raised £4000 in ten months. This money went towards the purchase of Centaur House in Queen Street. Sadie was also the recipient of a cash prize, and she donated £400 to the Fund. In 1957, it paid for a sandstone bas relief sculpture by Leonard Shillam. The relief depicted the Centaur, the ship’s Matron, a Medical Officer, a Field Ambulance Officer and a Merchant Seaman. Initially installed at Centaur House, the relief later was moved to the Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane.
- In 1951, Sadie was awarded the Returned Servicemen’s League’s Gold Life Membership Badge, the highest honour which can be bestowed on a member and, possibly, the first given to a woman in QLD. Then, in 1953, for outstanding dedication to nursing, Sadie was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal.
- READ SLIDE Sadie was a fierce defender of Australians who donned the King’s uniform in both World Wars. One Sunday morning in Brisbane in the early hours, Sadie appeared at the City Watch-house, wearing a dressing gown over her night attire, with her white hair tightly braided. Sadie confronted the police, demanding that they release one of her boys, a veteran of Tobruk, who was being held as drunk and disorderly. With the veteran safely released into her care, Sadie was heard to remark ‘How dare they? He had every right to get drunk!’ I’ve only skimmed Sadie’s story by highlighting some of the connections in Trove…there are dozens of newspaper articles about her extraordinary life which I encourage you to browse through….but remember the trick about spelling her name!
- READ SLIDE As you are aware, before digitisation projects are funded, recipients must first have conducted a significance assessment and then a preservation needs assessment. These assessments will include prioritised recommendations which can then be the basis for further funding applications. One example of an organisation which has followed this process is the Berrima and District Family History Society. This organisation first received grants for assessments and then for digitisation of their collection of photographs, which are now available through Trove.
- Because Trove is harvesting the collection from the Berrima and District Family History Society. We have seen the collection grow over time as more images have been added into Trove…and it is so exciting to think that these photos and posters are now being discovered throughout Australia. Lastly, if don’t have a collection management system and you are from Victoria you should also contact Victorian Collections which offers a collection management system, free for use by collecting organisations within Victoria. Together we’ve developed streamlined processes to harvest records from Victorian Collections into Trove.