Warwick Cathro Assistant Director-General Resource Sharing and Innovation National Library of Australia Trove – a service built on collaboration OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Forum 15 April 2010

Libraries Australia and Trove Distinct user communities Trove repurposes the ANBD Libraries Australia is functionally broader Trove clusters versions

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Trove search results

Scope of Trove The NLA’s aspiration: to include collection data of all kinds that will meet the information needs of Australian library users and researchers: –Data from library catalogues and other library collection data –Government data –Museum/gallery data –Archives data –Research publications –Research datasets –Other statistical datasets –Digitised book and journal collections (including vendor-supplied e-resources) –Biographical data

Use case examples Nellie Melba Road safety The 1983 Australian election campaign The climate change work of James Hansen Complex Regional Pain Syndrome

Trove’s “national data store” Records from the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD) Dublin Core metadata describing digitised pictures Dublin Core metadata describing the contents of university research repositories The full text of more than 10 million historic Australian newspaper articles The full text of the PANDORA web archive Metadata from the Open Library and the Hathi Trust – public domain digitised book collections – and a selection of 120,000 books from the Internet Archive Tags from Wikipedia Manuscript finding aids Data from major online biographical services (converted to EAC)

Need to improve the ANBD Trove would be improved if the ANBD were more comprehensive Collection level descriptions –Reimagining Libraries: The “Lists” Project –Local history and other special collections Trove would be improved if the ANBD were more up to date –Public library de-selection activities are an obvious case

Getting items from other libraries Libraries Australia has had “enhanced requesting” since 2005 There is a need to resolve how to migrate this workflow to Trove

Collection summaries

Trove – built on relationships Harvest metadata from contributors Build relationships with “aggregator partners”

Libraries Libraries Australia is the vehicle for content contribution The Libraries Australia Advisory Committee will provide advice on both services Libraries also provide Dublin Core metadata, manuscript finding aids, collection summaries

National cultural institutions The NLA has strong relationships with: –National Film & Sound Archive –National Archives of Australia –National Museum of Australia –Australian War Memorial –Museum of Australian Democracy Think of use cases: Australian Prime Ministers, Nellie Melba, etc. Accept metadata in any format Confer one-on-one and through forums such as Heads of Collecting Institutions

Government agencies Include bodies with a strong “information provision” mandate: –Australian Bureau of Statistics –GeoScience Australia –Bureau of Meteorology –IP Australia Think of use case: Australian wine production Work towards contribution of ABS dataset metadata using standards such as DDI (Data Documentation Initiative)

Museums and archives The NLA may not be the ideal coordinator, despite the success of Picture Australia Would prefer to work with “aggregator partners” Possible example: CAN (Collections Australia Network) These bodies must be sustainably resourced to liaise with museums and archives and to aggregate their data The NLA could make its technical infrastructure available to these partners

Research community NLA has worked closely with this community since 2004 Currently harvest university repository metadata for Australian Research Online and Trove Currently working with ANDS (Australian National Data Service) on the Party Infrastructure Project Could regard ANDS as a potential “aggregator partner”

E-resource vendors They have extensive and rich collections of article-level metadata NLA is seeking to form partnerships with them The Reimagining Libraries “Open Borders Project” will develop a framework for users to discover and access e-resources from their multiple affiliated libraries

The public There is no Australian equivalent of Digital NZ (yet) Contribution pool for digitised pictures in Flickr Tagging and commenting facilities in Trove NLA needs to define a collection strategy and ingest mechanism for contribution of content beyond pictures

Conclusions Trove is a powerful tool facilitating access by end users to Australian collections There are connections on a number of levels between Trove and Libraries Australia There is a need to expand Trove’s content through stronger relationships between the NLA and other Australian collections In some cases the “aggregator partner” approach will be pursued

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