TROVE - a window to our community heritage - Hilary Berthon of Trove, NLA
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TROVE - a window to our community heritage - Hilary Berthon of Trove, NLA
- 1. Trove A window to our community heritage Hilary Berthon 1 Assistant Director Trove Outreach
- 2. PART ONE: ABOUT TROVE PART TWO: TROVE & COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS PART THREE: DIGITISATION PARTNERSHIPS PART FOUR: SOME TROVE STORIES 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. Trove zones
- 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. Erik Stranberg (2006), A toolbox, from Biltema, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia commons.
- 12. 12
- 13. COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS Case studies
- 14. Queensland Women’s Historical Association • Awarded a grant for $4,950 in 2015 for a significance assessment of the collection • 285 items in Trove 14
- 15. 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 15 Garrard & Co. LTD First World War Royal Red Cross medal and miniature of Matron Sadie Macdonald. QLD Women’s Historical Association cc-by Attribution
- 16. 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 16 Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 - 1941), Wednesday 23 April 1930, page 12
- 17. Matron Sadie MacDonald • Here she is! • With another medal, the Florence Nightingale medal, in 1953 • Image from the SLQ 17 State Library of QLD: John Oxley Library cc-by Attribution
- 18. Matron Sadie McDonald! • A little Trove tip - always try alternative spellings • To recap, a medal from the Queensland Women’s Historical Association, took me to a story about the MacDonald family, and then on to further explore the story of this extraordinary woman. 18 Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Friday 18 June 1943, page 2 cc-by Attribution
- 19. 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
- 20. 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?
- 21. Berrima and District Family History Society 2015 – 889 2016 – 1,546
- 25. • Nasza Droga: the newspaper for Poles in Australia 1952-1954 Digitisation supported by German digital documentation centre Porta Polonica
- 26. An architectural Survey of Goulburn and District, c. 1960; and Melba’s Gift book of Australian Art and literature, 1915
- 28. TROVE STORIES
- 29. RESEARCH WILL BE EASIER, Examiner, 1952. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news- article52927529
- 30. The Great Melbourne Telescope (13 June, 1874). A party of amateur astronomers. The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil (Melbourne: 1874) p. 45 , http://nla.gov.au/nla.news- article60607489
- 32. Platypus and fruit bats, 1880, J.F. Schreiber http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/4 0390868
- 35. • Digitisation partnerships: andp@nla.gov.au, (02) 6262 1005 • Content partnerships: trove.nla.gov.au/contact • twitter.com/TroveAustralia • nla.gov.au/blogs/trove • facebook.com/TroveAustralia/ • Subscribe to the Partners eNews.
- 36. Useful resources • GLAM Peak resources – www.digitalcollections.org.au • Victorian Collections - https://victoriancollections.net.au/ • Trove Content and Digitisation partner information - http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/content-partners • Libraries Australia - http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/ • About Copyright - http://www.nla.gov.au/about-copyright • Keeping up to date with Copyright - http://www.digital.org.au/ • Australian Copyright Council - http://www.copyright.org.au • Rights statements - http://rightsstatements.org/ • Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org.au/
Editor's Notes
- Hi, my name is Hilary Berthon and I am the Assistant Director of the Trove, responsible for Outreach, 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’s used Trove? Can you tell me a little bit about what you did?
- The talk will be in four parts – a brief overview of Trove and then some information on Trove and the recipients of Community Heritage Grants. I’ll tell you a little about Trove’s digitisation partnerships and then a couple of stories about the wonderful things people are doing with Trove.
- Here in this wonderful image of a collection of collections you can get an idea of what Trove is all about… ‘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. Trove contains over half a billion online resources, and is the 4th most visited Commonwealth government website in Australia. So, it’s big and it’s popular…but why is it important?
- Over a thousand organisations participate in Trove. It’s a collaboration between the National Library, State and Territory libraries and hundreds of cultural and research institutions around Australia. All 40 Australian universities contribute to Trove as do commonwealth and state government departments, public libraries, special libraries, museums, historical societies, archives and galleries. So, if you are looking for a snake in a haystack, as the person on the slide is, I am sure you will find it in Trove. Trove is visited by more than 60,000 people per day. Trove is indexed by all the major search engines. Trove provides context: your collections are discovered alongside the records of nearly 1200 libraries, university repositories, museums and government departments.
- 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.
- Technically, Trove works by harvesting content from all the collections sites. It firstly goes out to the web-accessible repository and copies any records available. Then changes those records into a web ready format according to a series of processing steps and then 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.
- Trove is bursting at the seams with resources. How do we categorise all those resources so people can find what they’re looking for? Resources are grouped into what we call zones – you can see them the minute you land on our homepage. There are ten zones. Each zone groups similar content. There’s digitised newspapers – which cover everything from the first Australian newspaper in 1803 to big daily metropolitans with their special liftouts like the opening of the Sydney harbour bridge in 1932 to tiny specialty papers like ‘Jamboree Daily’ – put out every day of the scout jamboree in 2007 Government gazettes – similar to newspapers - these are official publications put out by each of the state, territory and commonwealth governments for the purpose of notifying the public of government business. At the moment got NSW from 1832 and the Commonwealth from 1901. Journals, articles and data sets – that’s where you can find journal articles e.g. Bush Fire Bulletin, Education, academic research papers from every Australian university And so on, for example the maps zone contains descriptions of both paper maps and digitised ones. People and organisations – includes biographies of everyday and famous Australians. There’s sometimes quite a detailed textual biography, a list of books that are about them, photographs they’re in and so on. This is where you can find out all about people Lists created by users – anyone doing research on a topic can bring together related resources, and make a list, then share it. So, say I’m researching my great grandfather, and there’s a picture of the movie theatre where he was a projectionist, a newspaper article about him marrying my great grandmother, and a book on the street he lived in. I can put all those things in a List, and add notes about why they’re relevant.
- Once you have found items it’s 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.
- If people want to muck around in the toolbox and build things then they’re free to do so. The Application Programming Interface or API is currently being used to create apps, display results on other websites, harvest records, retrieve tags or comments, and create visualisations.
- So, finally let me tell you a little bit about the variety and scale of discoverable content in Trove. There are now just under 550 million ‘works’ in Trove. A "work" (or "resource") may be as simple as a newspaper article or as complex a book available in hundreds of editions and dozens of translations 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.
- The Qld Women’s Historical Association was awarded a grant in 2015 for a significance assessment of their collection. They now have 285 items in Trove.
- 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. She 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.
- In the newspapers zone I learn more of her story. She was one of 6 nurses in the Macdonald family and had a long-term commitment to returned soldiers. 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.
- 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!
- The Berrima and District Family History Society have received a couple of CHG grants. This organisation first received grants for assessments and then for digitisation of their collection of photographs, which are now available through Trove.
- Their image collection has grown…but how do we know this?
- Because Trove is harvesting the collection from the Berrima and District Family History Society.
- Another way to get content into Trove is through digitisation partnerships. Digitisation is not just scanning pages! We provide end-to-end support for digitising, preserving and delivering Australian newspapers, journals and books, and since 2010 we have partnered with over 100 organisations to digitise content. Although it may seem straightforward, one of the key things that we offer is access to specialised equipment that can be used to capture digital images to the standards required to give users the best possible experience in discovering and access content produced through a partnership – this includes automatic book scanners – large format item scanners and microfilm scanners, significantly improving efficiency of digitisation.
- The process of a digitisation partnership is as follows – firstly we enter an agreement to digitise the content in question. We then work with our partner to source the master content – which may be hardcopy or microfilm depending on the content – for some content, such as newspapers, our preferred source is microfilm. There are a couple of reasons for this – the first is that the fragility of historic newspapers means that any additional handling can significantly reduce the lifespan, so by using the microfilm we do not need to handle the newspapers again, the second is efficiency – a single page from a broadsheet newspaper can take minutes to digitise, in comparison, a microfilm roll containing 1000 pages of a newspaper can be digitised in as little as 10 minutes. Once the master material has been sourced, then the content is digitally captured, and for textual material this then goes through Optical Character recognition to make it fully text searchable. Once this has been checked, we can then make it available for discovery and delivery through Trove. We then maintain long-term preservation, as standards and technologies change.
- Here’s some very recently added newspaper material added through a partnership project. This is the first of what we hope will be many Australian Polish newspapers digitised with the support of Porta Polonica Documentation Centre for the Culture and History of the Poles in Germany and also in the diaspora. We are very keen to increase the number of newspapers in languages other English. And if you want to know what newspapers are about to be digitized, check new titles coming section of the newspaper zone in Trove.
- Trove is not just newspapers. We’ve also partnered to digitie Books and albums. Goulburn Mulwaree Council and the Yarra Ranges Regional museum partnered with us to digitize this album and book
- And here’s some journals that we have partnered with organisations to deliver. In 2016 the University of Wollongong and the University of New South Wales partnered with the National Library to digitise Art In Australia – a significant early 20th Century art magazine. For this project the Universities supplied the digital images, digitised to the National Library’s specifications, based on their collections. The University of New South Wales held almost a complete collection and contributed 47 issues. Once the images had been received, the National Library completed additional processing allowing this significant resource to be full-text searchable. Overall, the project took three months to complete, and 9,960 pages are now being delivered through Trove. The Bush Fire Bulletin was digitized with the NSW Rural Fire Service, and the Pacific Islands Monthly was funded by the NLA with the support of the publisher, the Fiji Times.
- One of the joys of working with Trove is hearing some of the stories of how people have been using to Trove for their research, uncovering information, asking new questions and assembling new meaning. Some of these stories appear on our Trove blog – and make a great read. And we really encourage researchers to share their stories with us in this way.
- Trove is helping researchers and volunteers to restore the Great Melbourne Telescope. Museums Victoria, the Astronomical Society of Victoria and Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria have joined forces to restore to working order this , one of the largest telescopes in the world in the 19th century, and the largest in the southern hemisphere. Built at Melbourne Observatory in 1869, the telescope was modified and relocated to Canberra in 1944, but heavily damaged in the 2003 Canberra bushfires. Trove has helped restoration of the telescope by providing photographs from different perspectives and newspaper reports that included a lot of technical detail and information about materials that were used to construct the telescope. Trove also enriched restorers’ knowledge about the construction of the telescope, how it got to Melbourne and how it was re-assembled. The contemporary accounts on Trove revealed how the public received the telescope, providing a lot more context about how it was viewed in that time.
- Trove sheds light on parenting and schooling Trove helped Dr Helen Proctor and Dr Heather Weaver to research attitudes into parenting and schooling in Australia. They wrote an article, ‘Creating an educational home: mothering for schooling in the Australian Women’s Weekly 1943-1960’ late last year which would not have been possible without the digitised Australian Women's Weekly on Trove. Inspired by what they discovered and the availability of the digitised Canberra Times on Trove, Proctor and Weaver have expanded their research to include research into attitudes towards education in the 1970s. Dr Proctor and Dr Weaver are at the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Sydney.
- Trove has assisted new research into platypus populations as part of efforts to halt the decline of the iconic Australian animal. Ph.D. candidate Tahneal Hawke from the Centre for Ecosystem Science at the University of NSW studied thousands of newspaper articles from the mid-1800s to the 1950s to determine whether there were any historic changes in platypus distribution. She said platypus was distributed from Cooktown to Tasmania but there was little known about where they occurred in the past and in what numbers. There were many accounts in the newspapers of accidental captures, shootings and sightings, which provided river and catchment locations but the reports also, unexpectedly, revealed numbers. Ms Hawke extracted the locational and numerical data from the articles and is about to analyse the results. She hopes the Trove data can pinpoint rivers where platypuses were reported and hopefully determine more localised extinctions. As well as providing the unexpected numerical data, Trove also told the story of how attitudes changed towards the platypus over time – from being a pest and hunted for its fur to being a unique Australian animal worthy of scientific investigation, protection and conservation. She said this intergenerational change in attitude toward the platypus had not been recorded before. There are many more stories like this which people have shared with us – some of which you’ll find on Trove’s blog.
- In closing, I’d like to draw your attention to the ‘Help’ which is available on Trove.
- There’s help for people wanting to find things in Trove, there’s help if you want to partner with us to digitize something to Trove or to make your collection discoverable on Trove, and there’s help with building with Trove using the API.
- Here are the details on how to contact Trove.
- Finally a list of resources that you may find useful.