Post on 29-Jan-2016
Warwick CathroAssistant Director-GeneralResource Sharing and InnovationNational Library of Australia
Trove – a service built on collaboration
OCLC Asia Pacific Regional Council Forum15 April 2010
Libraries Australia and Trove
• Distinct user communities
• Trove repurposes the ANBD
• Libraries Australia is functionally broader
• Trove clusters versions
LA search results
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
Collection summaries
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
Questions?