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Digitisation activities at State Library of Queensland October 2009 - Overview. Presented at a Digitisation Forum held at State Library of Queensland 2 October 2009
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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
Issues
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!)
Issues
Shared values- Do it once, well and for the future- Collaborate- Open access - Attribution
Issues