National Library of Australia -Trove

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Trove Yes, it’s bigger on the inside…

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TroveYes, it’s bigger on the inside…

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A collection of collections

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• Libraries• Archives• Museums• Galleries• Universities• Research organisations• Government agencies• Historical societies• & more

Trove harvests metadata from hundreds of

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Library holdings from around the country

Where can I borrow this

book?

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Millions of images and objects

I’m from the Museum of Victoria

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The latest research from university repositories

Probabilistic Human-Robot Information Fusion, PhD Sydney, 2008

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More than 200,000 stories from Radio National

All of AM, PM and The World Today from 1999 to now!

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• CSIRO publications• Theatrical performances

from AusStage• Legal opinions from the

Attorney-General’s Dept• User-created lists

& much more…

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Mostly metadata

except for…

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More than 120 million newspaper articles!

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• 127 million newspaper articles

• 18 million books• 8 million images• 500,000 maps• 3 million sound & video• 35,000 lists

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Read the docshttp://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove

Play with datahttp://troveconsole.herokuapp.com/