Digitised content from the State Library of Queensland – history and more

SLQ Digitised Content

Why digitise? For access, use, re-use and to facilitate new knowledge What? - maps, manuscripts, photos, music scores, oral histories and more

Where? multiple platforms

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/showcase/discover-the-queenslander

SLQ Digitised Content

Why digitise? For access, use, re-use and to facilitate new knowledge What? - maps, manuscripts, photos, music scores, oral histories and more

Where? multiple platforms

Shows how full bleed image can be used. Caption preferably in white, or black if a light photo. 20pt arial

Content to support Curriculum

ATSI - photos, artworksAustralian history - diaries, letters, maps, books1780s to early 1900s - almanacs, maps, books, WWI material, music

SLQ Blogs

• John Oxley Library • World War 1

Centenary• Australian Library

of Art• Indigenous

languages

http://blogs.slq.qld.gov.au/

Qld newspapers on Trove

• Digitised newspapers1954

• Strong Queensland metropolitan and regional content

Flickr Commonshttp://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/

http://www.flickr.com/commons/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/statelibraryqueensland/4040759199

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/photos/statelibraryqueensland/8008259621

Wikimedia Commonshttp://commons.wikimedia.org

Public domain or rights free content – images audio filmWide range of topicsSLQ donated all out of copyright photographs to the Commons in 2010

Internet Archivehttps://archive.org/details/statelibraryofqueensland

• 290 digitised books• Wide range of topics• Focus on tourism

and World War I

Historypinhttp://historypin.com

The purpose of Historypin is to help people to come together from across different generations, cultures and places, around the history of their families and neighbourhoods, improving personal relations and building stronger communities.

• wearewhatwedo.org (UK non-profit)• based in London, presence in San Francisco• beta launch 2010, global launch July 2011• supported by Google

Historypin – long term aims • To get as many people as possible taking part in the history of their family, streets, country and world• To bring neighbourhoods together around local history and help people feel closer to the place they live in.• To get people from different generations talking more, sharing more and coming together more often.• To conserve and open up global archives for everyone to enjoy, learn from and improve.• To create a study resource for schools and universities.• To be the largest global archive of human history.

SLQ’s involvement

Outcomes

• building engagement• growing a distributed collection of Queensland memory• connecting communities and individuals to places and stories

Q ANZAC 100: Memories for a new generation

• Lead and engage with a network of local and regional communities to co-create new content and to digitally enable access to primary sources and collections

• Build capability and skills among heritage professions, teachers, students and community organisations to leave a lasting legacy

• Partner with cultural and arts organisations to extend the opportunities for the expression, performance, exhibition and regional touring of World War One stories

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/about-us/projects-and-partnerships/q-anzac-100

World War 1

Q ANZAC 100 On this day#onthisday #ww1 #qanzac100

World War 1

Full bleed vertical image and caption like this. 20 pt arial Image bleed off left hand side, with caption at right

Margaret Warren – Coordinator, Discovery Servicese: discovery@slq.qld.gov.aut: @mawarre