TroveA window to our community heritage

Hilary Berthon

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Assistant Director Trove Outreach

PART ONE: ABOUT TROVE

PART TWO: TROVE & COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS

PART THREE: DIGITISATION PARTNERSHIPS

PART FOUR: SOME TROVE STORIES

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Étienne Grandchamp, (2015). Français : Charleroi - Passage de la Bourse -librairie et bouquiniste Fafouille .CC-BY-SA-4.0, Wikimedia commons

Anna Sippel (2013). Pacman threatening the Moon. Swinburne University of Technology.CC- BY-NC-ND

Negative (1925). Man & Dog Searching for Snakes in a Haystack, Corindhap, Victoria, circa 1925. Museum Victoria.Out of copyright.

Hans Adler in a corner of his music roomCC-BY-SA-3.0, Wikimedia commons

H.V. McKay Pty Ltd, Sunshine Harvester Works (1910). Photograph - H.V. McKay, Harvesting, circa 1910. CC-BY-4.0, Museum Victoria.

Archibald J. Campbell 1895, Photograph - Finding an Emu's Nest, by A.J. Campbell, Victoria, 1895.CC-BY-4.0, Museum Victoria.

Trove zones

Janette Garrad (2011). Gazebo built on Shorncliffe Pier for a United Kingdom commercial, Shorncliffe, Queensland.CC-BY-4.0, Picture Queensland ~ State Library of Queensland

Erik Stranberg (2006), A toolbox, from Biltema, CC BY-SA 2.5, Wikimedia commons.

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COMMUNITY HERITAGE GRANTS

Case studies

Queensland Women’s Historical Association

• Awarded a grant for $4,950 in 2015 for a significance assessment of the collection

• 285 items in Trove

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Matron Sadie MacDonald• One of them is about

Matron Sadie MacDonald…

• First World War Royal Red Cross medal

• Diggers’ Friend

• Medal is in the ‘Pictures, photos, objects’ zone

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Garrard & Co. LTD First World War Royal Red Cross medal and miniature of Matron Sadie Macdonald.

QLD Women’s Historical Associationcc-by Attribution

Matron Sadie MacDonald

• In the newspapers zone I learn more of her story

• One of 6 nurses in the Macdonald family!

• Long term commitment to returned soldiers

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Evening News (Rockhampton, Qld. : 1924 -1941), Wednesday 23 April 1930, page 12

Matron Sadie MacDonald• Here she is!

• With another medal, the Florence Nightingale medal, in 1953

• Image from the SLQ

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State Library of QLD: John Oxley Librarycc-by Attribution

Matron Sadie McDonald!• A little Trove tip - always try alternative

spellings

• To recap, a medal from the Queensland Women’s Historical Association, took me to a story about the MacDonald family, and then on to further explore the story of this extraordinary woman.

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Telegraph (Brisbane, Qld. : 1872 - 1947), Friday 18 June 1943, page 2

cc-by Attribution

Berrima and District Family History Society

• Awarded several CHG grants

• 2009: Preservation Needs Assessment and archival storage materials

• 2014: Archival storage materials and equipment; image scanning; software

Berrima and District Family History Society

• Digitised image library

• Watched the collection grow as more images have been added…but how do we know this?

Berrima and District Family History Society

2015 – 889 2016 – 1,546

DIGITISATION PARTNERSHIPS

Delivery &long-term

preservation

•Nasza Droga: the newspaper for Poles in Australia

1952-1954

Digitisation supported by German digital documentation centrePorta Polonica

An architectural Survey of Goulburn and District, c. 1960; and Melba’s Gift book of Australian Art and literature, 1915

TROVE STORIES

RESEARCH WILL BE EASIER, Examiner, 1952. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52927529

The Great Melbourne Telescope (13 June, 1874).A party of amateur astronomers. The Australasian Sketcher with Pen and Pencil(Melbourne: 1874) p. 45 , http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article60607489

Platypus and fruit bats, 1880, J.F. Schreiber

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/40390868

http://trove.nla.gov.au

• Digitisation partnerships: andp@nla.gov.au, (02) 6262 1005

• Content partnerships: trove.nla.gov.au/contact

• twitter.com/TroveAustralia

• nla.gov.au/blogs/trove

• facebook.com/TroveAustralia/

• Subscribe to the Partners eNews.

Useful resources

• GLAM Peak resources – www.digitalcollections.org.au• Victorian Collections - https://victoriancollections.net.au/• Trove Content and Digitisation partner information -

http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/content-partners• Libraries Australia - http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/• About Copyright - http://www.nla.gov.au/about-copyright• Keeping up to date with Copyright - http://www.digital.org.au/• Australian Copyright Council - http://www.copyright.org.au• Rights statements - http://rightsstatements.org/• Creative Commons - http://creativecommons.org.au/