An elderly couple celebrating the breaking of the drought on Mt. Fraser Homestead …
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Images of Australiana – cultural agencies cooperate to bring their pictorial collections
together at the one web site
www.pictureaustralia.org
An elderly couple celebrating the breaking of the drought on
Mt. Fraser Homestead …[Museum Victoria]
Customs House [State Library of New South Wales]
Uluru (Ayers Rock) - Kata Tjuta National Park
[National Archives of Australia]
Olympic rings on the Sydney Harbour Bridge,
19 September 2000 …[National Library of Australia]
PictureAustralia – the concept
• Need for a national discovery service as users do not know where images are located
• Cross-sectoral approach: images are provided from museums, archives, galleries, libraries, universities or historical societies
• For consistency in searching and locating images,
proposed a central repository of descriptive information based on standard metadata
Six 'Miss Australia' finalists relax on a launch trip on Fremantle Harbour
[National Archives of Australia]
Fremantle Lighthouse/ North Mole
[Australian Heritage Commission]
Fremantle, WA [State Library of New South Wales]
Fremantle with Rottnest Island in the distance, 1859…
[National Library of Australia]
IN AND AROUND FREMANTLE, WESTERN
AUSTRALIA. [State Library of Victoria]
Praxis presents The Found Object…
[National Gallery of Australia]
Elder Building [Australian Heritage Commission]
The collection
• Currently 37 agencies contributing to PictureAustralia
• Images from libraries, museums, archives, galleries, universities, historical societies and other agencies
• 4,212,359 hits in May with 36, 000 new visitors
• Over one million images are available through PictureAustralia at present
ACT Heritage Library National Portrait Gallery
Australian Maritime Museum Nolan Gallery
Australian National University Northern Territory Library
Australian War Memorial Powerhouse Museum
Brisbane City Council Redcliffe City Library
Campbelltown City Library SCRAN
CSIRO State Library of NSW
Dept. Environment & Heritage State Library of Queensland
Gold Coast Library Service State Library of SA
James Cook University State Library of Tasmania
John Curtin Library State Library of Victoria
Lake Macquarie Library State Records of NSW
Maroochy Libraries Swinburne University
Museum Victoria Thuringowa Library
National Archives of Australia University of Melbourne
National Gallery of Australia University of Queensland
National Library of Australia Vision Australia Foundation
National Library of NZ Wollongong City LibraryAustralia [picture] : Great Barrier Reef,
Queensland /National Library of Australia
Australia (The Great Barrier Reef)National Gallery of Australia
Millionth Image
Vivan Bullwinkel, AO, MBE (1915-2000) c.1941[Australian War Memorial]
The benefits of PictureAustralia
For users
– single web access point to many collections
– simple searching – access to a wide range of images– trails
For participating agencies
– increased visibility and use of collections
– diversity of users– collaborative approach– possible source of revenue
Blue Mountains National Park [Australian Heritage Commission]
1915 Edwards, Mary c.1915 [Lake Macquarie City Library]
The service architecture
• Low technical investment is required by participants
• A harvester copies metadata in the Dublin Core format from participants’ web sites
• Software platform - TeraText by Inquirion
• A central metadata index is created at the National Library
Hybrid model of harvesting metadata• OAI
http://www.openarchives.org/organization/index.html
• Full web harvests
PictureAustralia homepagewww.pictureaustralia.org/
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Who is PictureAustralia for?
• All Australians with an interest in our culture and history
• Overseas users interested in Australia
• Researchers, family historians, writers, publishers, students, teachers, architects etc.
• To make the service generally accessible there are no special software or hardware requirements for use, just a standard PC, web browser and modem
Miranda Coney and Albert David in a study for Stephen
Page's "Rites", 1997[National Library of Australia]
Moreton Bay Fig growing through bench - New farm Park; 1994
[Brisbane City Council Library]
PictureAustralia users
•Demographics
•Accessing the Service
• Searching for:
Places, people, architecture, events, animals, artefacts, fine arts
nursing sisters of the Canberra Community Hospital
PictureAustralia promotion• Individual postcards distributed nationally through
universities, cafes, galleries, community centres and other public places
• Promotional materials materials mailed out to all Australian schools, public libraries, historical societies, galleries and museums
• Additional promotion includes:- web links from other sites - articles and advertising in journals- presentations at conferences and other demonstrations
Promotion of the service
The way forward
• Development of new technologies
• Additional picture trails – increasing user involvement
• Continue to target potential new collections to strengthen the service
• Collaboration with educational institutions
Junior girls cooking class, 1957Swinburne University of Technology
Miss Pacific finalists Mary Clifton Smith, Pamela Jansen and Judy Worrad, stand in front of surf boards on Bondi Beach, Sydney, New
South Wales, 1952[National Archives of Australia]