Digitization futures

Anna Raunik - Client Service and CollectionsLouise Denoon – Heritage CollectionsHelen Thurlow – Resource Discovery

Grant Collins – Collection PreservationChristine Ianna - Reformatting Manager

Margaret Warren – Web 2.0

Building on…75 years of collecting Queensland Memory

• 250,000 books and journals

• 1.5 million photographs

• 9,000 manuscript collections

• 2000 original motion picture

• 800 audio cassettes / oral history

John Oxley Library, established in 1934, holdings include:

Building on…

• IT infrastructure

• Website

• Catalogue

• Standards

• Intellectual property

Pictures

50,000 images on-line - photographs, maps, artworks

Unexpected favourites: flood, floods and 1974

Port Office Hotel in Edward Street, during the Brisbane floods of 1974

FlickR favourites

Manuscripts

Manuscripts QLD – 400 documents on-line

Music scoreSee the item, hear the item – partnership with the con

• Music QLD – 100 Scores…

Virtual Books Queensland Memory on-line activities • Virtual books

Motion pictures

Motion pictures

96 original motion picture items have been digitised and made available online.

Archived websites…

Pandora

Currently 1384 titles

Last financial year we archived over 400 instances

Websites become more complex

Selective archive containing copies of significant Australian online publications and

web sites issued on the Internet

http://pandora.nla.gov.au

NewspapersDigitization of Australian newspapers

The Moreton Bay Courier 1846 – 1861The Courier (Brisbane, Qld.) 1861 – 1864The Brisbane Courier 1864 – 1899The Courier Mail 1933 – 34 The Courier Mail to 1954 will be

completed in the second phase of this project

http://ndpbeta.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/home

National Program and Content• Initial focus on

major titles from each state and territory

• ‘Regional’ titles being contributed by libraries 2009 onwards

• Coverage: published between 1803 – 1954(out of copyright)

West Australian

Northern Territory Times

Courier Mail *

Advertiser

Sydney Morning Herald

Sydney Gazette

Argus

Mercury

Canberra Times

Most used tag

More newspapersThe Queenslander Funded with support of centre for Government, NLA and SLQ

The Longreach Leader

Other regional newspapersLike the Herbert River Express 1910

On-line booksThe Curse and its Cure

On-line booksTrial of ten publications – range of formats

1917 street and road directory

The wonderland of the north

Stanthorpe & district : Queensland’s wonderful mountain fruit garden

A queenly colony:  Great Brisbane area atlas

Railway tours of central Queensland

Brisbane from the air

Queensland 1900

Souvenir Tewantin, Noosa and district:

Interpretation and engagement Online exhibition

• Showcasing creative use of digitized collection

• screen grab of exhibition

http://www.slq.qld.gov.au/whats-on/exhibit/online/becoming_qld

Working with othersPublic libraries and cultural organisations

• 19 partners for Picture Queensland

Mt. Morgan

Erub (Darnley Island) – Torres Strait

Mt. Isa

Working with othersNational Institutions

• National Library – Picture Australia and Pandora

• National Film and Sound Archives

• Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Studies

Indigenous CollectionsProtocols for

dealing with Indigenous Collections

Aboriginal Corps at Yarrabah

Indigenous Collections

Olivia

Support the development of Indigenous multimedia as community-created content and encourage depositin the State Library’s Heritage Collections

Response to the ApologyQueenslanders Reflect

Response to the ApologyQueenslanders Reflect

Indigenous Collections

Developing digitized Indigenous language resources

Contemporary collecting - Collecting born digital

Operational issues:

What now? Themes, strategic priorities, user demand

Operational issues:

Child receiving a dental check-up from theChief Dental Officer, School Health Services

Small schoolboy receives a medical check-up from the school nurse, ca. 1911

Assume mass digitization

Operational issues:

Hope Vale teacher, Mrs Daw with her husband and children Narwen and Moboolio Molombo at Wujal Wujal

Pastor Ivan Roennfeldt Collection

5 years on…. more content

5 years on… more context

Arial text pt size 24 black

5 years on… more discoverable

5 years on… more discoverable

‘Linking the world from Wikipedia to Picture

Queensland’

5 years on… online communities

Text correctors for Australian newspapers project

5 years on… more creative content

Flickr Mashups of Picture Queensland images

5 years on…user created content

Image from Wesley Fryer under Creative Commons Attribution, Share-Alike Licensehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/wfryer/

Issues

Australian War Memorial Image P01116.034

All I want is the copyright permission

Copyright – negotiating & educating

Contemporary collecting - Collecting born digital

Issues:

Issues

National Archives of Australia Image no. J2364, 9155/9

We’re so glad we called John Oxley Library…

Now we’ve got them on speed dial

Who are we digitizing for? - Local, national and international interest- Differencebetween clients and audiences

Collection management Maintenance and storage of

digitized collections Duplication Future proofing

(preservation) Are we creating a library

without a dewey system?

Issues

Resources From project to core funding Staff and client capacity and

confidence Hardware

Issues

IssuesEngagement, Promotion, Dialogue, Adding value

For someone looking for a specific piece of information, this may be a useful service. For anyone else it's a pain. - Historian reflecting on an undiscoverable digitised material

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Working with regional Queensland – collections and clients

Measuring success- Numbers digitized items- Use of collections- Community created content- Visibility of content in Internet

(Google ranking!)

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Shared values- Do it once, well and for the future- Collaborate- Open access - Attribution

Issues