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1 Trove masterclass Trove Support Team 1

2 Five things you didn’t know about Trove… 2

3 1.Trove isn’t just newspapers 3

4 4 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180873929 Flinders Shire Historical Photograph Project A wedding portrait of John Turnbull McLaren and Mary McDougall McLean, 1887 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180873882 Pictures Portrait of John T McLaren, 1935 Barrier Miner, (Broken Hill, NSW: 1888-1954), 14 October 1915

5 5 Photograph of Captain Bentley & ​ Captain Rex Maritime Museum of Tasmania http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177268915 JAMES CRAIG (1874) Australian Register of Historic Vessels http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177270824 Pictures and objects Brass sextant …acquired by Captain DS Bull in 1877 as 3rd. mate of "Kosciusco" http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177270809

6 6 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528777 The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 3 March 1953, page 1 Queensland Police Museum Objects

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9 9 2. Text correcting

10 Text created through OCR is searched by Trove OCR is not always accurate Correcting the text improves accuracy of the text Every correction improves search results for all users 10 Why correct text?

11 Community involvement Text correction is free No need to register Registered users can: – See their correction history – Appear in the Hall of Fame 11

12 Community involvement 106 million lines corrected 100,000 users Range from 1 correction to 2 million+ corrections 12

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14 What to do Fix the OCR text so it matches what was published Match the line of text to the same line on the image Use tags and comments to provide corrections to what was originally published 14

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16 What not to do Add text not in the original newspaper Change the text from what was originally published Move text so that it does not match the line it was originally in 16

17 17 3. Lists

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19 19 http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=43805

20 20 http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6216779

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27 List making 5,796 Trove users 27,911 public lists 449,624 items 27

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30 4. The Trove Forum 30

31 What are the forums for? Your space as Trove users Collaborate and communicate with other Trove users Community help resource News resource Create your account by logging in to Trove, then clicking on the ‘forum’ link 31

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37 Tips for using the forums Search first if you have a question, someone may have already asked it Use the ‘contact us’ form if you need input from a Trove team member Remember, the forums are a user space. 37

38 38 5. Keeping up with new content

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41 The Canberra Times 41

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63 Beyond Trove… 63

64 64 http://dhistory.org/querypic/

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68 68 http://dhistory.org/querypic/create

69 69 http://wraggelabs.com/shed/headline-roulette/

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71 71 http://wraggelabs.com/shed/headline-roulette/cats/

72 72 https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot

73 Power searching in the digitisted newspapers 73

74 Numbers 110+ Million articles 11+ Million pages 560+ titles 74

75 Start broad, then refine 75

76 Useful Search tools Phrase search – Put search terms in quotation marks e.g. “Tom Smith ” Near search – Put search terms in quotation marks, then use the tilde to specify a number e.g. “Tom Smith”~2 76

77 77 Tom Smith “ Tom Smith” and “Tom Smith” ~2

78 78 “Tom Smith”~2 “Tom Smith”

79 Useful Search tools OR search – Search for articles containing either term e.g. “tom smith” OR “T E Smith” AND search – Search for articles containing all terms e.g. (“tom smith” OR “T E Smith”) AND brenede 79

80 80 (“T E Smith” OR “Tom Smith”) AND brenede “Tom Smith” AND brenede

81 Finding common words as names Near search – Use an honorific with the name e.g. “Mr White”~1 – Can add additional terms, such as place names 81

82 82 White “mr white”~1

83 Useful Search tools fulltext: – Matches exact text only 83

84 84 drake fulltext:drake fulltext:drakes

85 Useful Search tips Finding ship names – Add ‘ship’ or ‘shipping’ to your search e.g. Babcock ship – When sorted by relevance will push most relevant results to the top 85

86 Babcock 86 Babcock ship

87 Useful Search tools date:[yyyy TO yyyy] – Search between two years e.g. Gallipoli date:[1914 TO 1929 ] * – Wildcard, search matches all words starting with the characters before the ‘*’ e.g. Chin* matches China, Chinese, Chinaman etc. 87

88 Notifications 88

89 What’s next… 89

90 90 Browse - current

91 91 Browse – coming soon

92 92 Browse - current

93 93 Browse – coming soon

94 94 Article – current

95 95 Article – coming soon

96 96 Tags and comments - current

97 97 Tags and comments – coming soon

98 98 Title Information – coming soon

99 99 Twitter @TroveAustraliaTrove Forums

100 For more information… 100 Or contact us Consult our Help Collaborate with each other in the forum View our screencasts in YouTube http://www.youtube.com/user/TroveNLA Follow us on Twitter @TroveAustralia

101 101 Or visit us today at our table. We’ll be here all day!


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