INCITE.v31.01 02. Asking better questions: History, Trove and the risks that count – discontents. This is the published version of my chapter ‘Asking better questions: History, Trove and the risks that count’ in the book CopyFight, edited by Phillipa McGuiness. It’s reproduced here with the permission of the publishers. You can buy a copy of the book from NewSouth Press or just about any bookstore. You can also download a pdf version of this chapter. A few years ago historian Kate Bagnall and I created ‘The real face of White Australia’. In 1901 the Immigration Restriction Act gave legislative force to a system of racial exclusion and control that came to be known as the White Australia Policy. The bureaucratic remnants of this system survive today in the National Archives of Australia. The faces come from portrait photographs that were attached to official certificates.
To extract the faces I reverse-engineered the National Archives’ online database to automatically harvest images of the documents. Surely there are better questions to ask? Why 1954? Trove is not alone. TROVE 7 is coming soon. Trove and the world cultural collections in a global environment. Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world – discontents. Presented at ALIA Online 2015, 3 February 2015 in Sydney. A longer version with bonus references will be made available on the ALIA Online site. Slides are on Slideshare. In March 1930 the Sydney Electrical and Radio Exhibition opened in a blaze of excitement. Aboard his yacht in Genoa, inventor Guglielmo Marconi triggered a radio signal that reached across the world and switched on more than 2800 electric lights at the Sydney Town Hall.
‘All in less than a second!’ , exclaimed the Sydney Mail, ‘Here was magic!’. According to the Sydney Morning Herald, radio had ‘eliminated time and distance’. About a month later the British and Australian Prime Ministers spoke for the first time via wireless telephone. Sounds familiar? From railways to the telegraph, radio, and the internet, the progress of technology has often been imagined as a battle against time and space.
Remember when we used to talk about the ‘Information superhighway’? The idea is familiar and seductive. Here is magic. Why? 10E. Trove. Introducing Trove 7. Trove—the National Library's online discovery service—has had some work done and is even better! This is one of the largest updates in Trove history. Trove is now sporting a range of new features. 1. Make use of the new ‘Browse’ facility—choose from broad topics like state, title, date and category, and narrow your selection down to the article you want.2. Navigate more easily using the icons on the left of the screen.3. Correct text more easily—new lines can be added and empty lines deleted.4. Customise the display—set your own contrast, font style, size and favourite zoom level.
This work was partly funded by the generous donations received from members of the Trove community as part of the Change lives, Support Trove appeal. A new zone for Trove—Government Gazettes The State Library of New South Wales and the National Library of Australia are working together to make the NSW Government Gazette (1832–2001) the first title available in the new zone. Discovery What is staying the same?
Home. Trove Other National Library Treasures Chinchilla Jul 2013. Trove support zones | Help centre. National Library of Australia Using Trove This zone explains how Trove works and gives answers to some common questions. Whether you're a first-time user or an experienced text-corrector, you'll find some useful hints here. Content partners How can organisations make their own collections easier to find by sharing them through Trove? In this zone we explain how Trove harvests records and the metadata standards we use.
Building with Trove Trove is not just a website, it's a platform for building your own tools and resources. Using digitised newspapers FAQ. Can I copy the images and use them in Wikipedia, and how should I cite/credit them? For further information about copyright, view the Australian Copyright Council website. This information applies to articles published prior to 1954 only.
Use of articles published after 1954 may be subject to copyright restrictions. It is OK to use images from Digitised newspapers and more... on Wikipedia, other websites and in publications. The National Library (NLA) does not own copyright on the images or the original newspapers, and has digitised newspapers prior to 1954 on the understanding that they are out of copyright. Credit your source of the images as the National Library of Australia and use the stable article identifier (e.g. As your link. Could you remove an article containing personal or family information please? How can I get a copy of this newspaper? How do I print or save an article? To save an article, select 'PDF' at the article level. Trove Content Inclusion Policy | Help centre. The Trove Content Inclusion Policy defines the scope and nature of inclusion of Australian and overseas content for the National Library of Australia’s Trove service. This is a revised edition of the policy and was issued in March 2014.
The policy will be revised on a biennial basis. The policy provides guidance for Library staff, other libraries and contributors, users and the general public on Trove’s content development activities as well as providing information on the scope and depth of Trove’s content. The Trove Content Inclusion Statement summarises content currently available in Trove and will be updated on a biennial basis.
If you have any comments about the directions set out in the policy, please contact us. 1. The National Library has a proud history of collaborating with other libraries and cultural institutions to make the nation’s collections available for use by the Australian people. The National Library Act 1960 provides a mandate to co-operate in library matters. 2. 3. Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia | Ariadne. Trove. Australian online library database aggregator Trove is an Australian online library database owned by the National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia, an aggregator and service which includes full text documents, digital images, bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool.
Content[edit] Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. In the wake of government funding cuts since 2015, the National Library and other organisations have been struggling to keep up with ensuring that content on Trove is kept flowing through and up to date.
History[edit] The first version of Trove was released to the public in late 2009.[7] Implementation[edit] 2010s[edit] F0270 Trove Info sheet GettingStartedTrove EMAIL. F0270 Trove Info sheet PowerSearchTips EMAIL 1. Discovery interfaces. VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: Discovery Tuesday 9 February 2010, 11:25 - 11:55Persistent URL: Karen Joc Assistant Dean, Dubai Library, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Kayo Chang Instructor & Reference/Instruction Librarian, Zayed University, United Arab Emirates Please tag your comments, tweets, and blog posts about this session: #VALA2010 Abstract Between September and December 2009, librarians at Zayed University undertook a three phase randomised, semi-blind usability study focusing on four discovery platforms, to ascertain which of these discovery platforms if any best met the criteria of these EFL digital natives.
Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries. D-Lib Magazine November/December 2011 Volume 17, Number 11/12Table of Contents Extending the Scope of Trove: Addition of E-resources Subscribed to By Australian Libraries Rose Holley National Library of Australia rholley@nla.gov.au doi:10.1045/november2011-holley Printer-friendly Version Abstract Trove is the national discovery service for Australia managed by the National Library of Australia. Keywords: Licensed e-resources, subscription e-resources, Trove, National Library of Australia 1. Trove1, the national discovery service for Australia was released by the National Library of Australia in December 2009.
In 2010 it was decided to extend the scope of Trove to include selected sets of e-resources subscribed to by Australian libraries. The work was successful and in May 2011, version 4.0 of Trove was released, which contained 120 million subscription e-resources for Australians. 2. The two main reasons to extend the scope of Trove to include subscription e-resources were to: 3. 4. Figure 2.