Digging Deep In Trove: Success, Challenge and Uncertainty - Marie-Louise Ayres
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success, challenge and uncertainty
Dr Marie-Louise Ayres
Digging deep in Trove:
Union catalogue for librarians
Australian Bibliographic Network
1981
Manuscripts
Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
1997
Pictures
Picture Australia
2000
Music
Music Australia
2005
Research
Australian Research online
2005
Newspapers
Australian Newspapers
2007
Dance
Australia Dancing
2003
Union catalogue for public
Libraries Australia
2006
2009
Web archives
Pandora
1997
Achievements
• National collaboration• Innovation and leadership• Research infrastructure• National and international exemplars
2007The idea…
Now…• 300 million resources• 50,000 unique users a day• 10% mobile devices• 70 million newspaper
lines corrected• 1.5 million tags• 42,000 comments• 28,000 lists• 140,000 Flickr images• Forum• API
“To all involved in bringing trove to the internet I say thank you! My research would be severely lacking if not for this resource. .”
“We're just writing to congratulate you on a job well done - Trove is an absolute treasure. We're so pleased Australian resources have entered the 21st century.”
“I want to express my gratitude, and to say how very welcome it is for anyone with internet access to be able to use your database! As someone teaching at a university with somewhat modest financial resources for our libraries, I welcome the access to vital information. I have been telling all of my fellow scholars about Trove, and will be using it as a model of what can be for years to come.”
“ Just HAVE to say how much I love Trove!!! You folk have made an amazing “thing”…My research would be so difficult & time consuming if it were not for TROVE…If THIS is what a library service is all about, the NLA is the epitome of “library” unequalled in the world!!”
Key success factors• 30 years of collaboration → →
• Lots of practice• Technology finally caught up• National leadership• Trust• People
The Trove teamExcellence in eGovernment
2011
Were the successes the ones we expected?
Were the challenges the ones we anticipated?
Ask?
Challenges• Increased content = more servers, software• Increased use = more bandwidth• Increased profile = higher expectations
– Users want more content– Users want new services– Which users do we serve– Constrained resources
• National or National Library service?
2007The idea…