Rose Holley: Trove Manager Resource Sharing and Innovation National Library of Australia ALIA Conference, Brisbane 1-3 September 2010 Trove: More than a treasure? How finding information just became easier

2 NLA Strategic Directions “We will explore new models for creating and sharing information and for collecting materials, including supporting the creation of knowledge by our users. “ “The changing expectations of users that they will not be passive receivers of information, but rather contributors and participants in information services.”

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4 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

5 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

6 IT Development The ‘art of with’ Charles Leadbeater Not to people Not for people WITH PEOPLE (USERS) Public feedback drives the development: CRITICAL, RELEVANT, INTERESTING

7 browse groups/ zones Single search Restrict search

8 Refine/limit search results groups/zones results Get item

9 Grouping of versions Get options

10 Buy Add tag Add comment merge/split versions and works if incorrect

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21 Context – Tools - Lists

22 Burke and Wills List

23 User generated content By Nomad Tales

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26 Search or browse – date, state, title

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28 Show activity in results RSS feeds

29 Interaction at article level

30 Fix text – power edit mode

31 Show all corrections

Hall of Fame Total of 17 million lines corrected July 2010

33 User profile Your settings and history

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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

39 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

40 Trove: Future developments 1.Updating content – existing contributors 2.Expanding content – new contributors 3.Sharing content – API 4.Improving e-journal access and authentication

42 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 42

Harriet Rubin Libraries need to think they are leading a mass movement, not just serving a clientele….. Charles Leadbeater Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control. Freedom is about what you can unleash…