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Trove: Telling our stories - Catriona Bryce - 2015
The document presents an overview of the Trove platform, which aggregates diverse collections from nearly 1,000 libraries and institutions across Australia. It emphasizes the importance of metadata, rights management, and digitization for participants looking to include their collections online. The platform is regularly accessed by 60,000 users daily, enhancing visibility and engagement for users' collections.
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- 1. Telling our stories Presentationto the Community Heritage Grants participants Catriona Bryce 1
- 2. 2 An unusual pieceof evidence….
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- 6. Ken Mitchell picturedoutside Southport Law Court, 1952 John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland.
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- 8. Another murder story Unknown (1902).Coins (Welded). Queensland Police Museum
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- 10. 10 John Oxley Library,State Library of Queensland Australia’s last bushrangers, the Kenniff brothers
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- 13. 13 First Sitting ofthe High Court in the Banco Court of the Supreme Court of Victoria, Melb. 6 October 1903. Sketch of T. J. Ryan. John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland
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- 15. So what isTrove? A collection of collections Nearly 1000 libraries, museums, archives, universities Resources Books, journal articles, pictures, diaries, newspapers User engagement Tags, lists, comments One search connecting them all 15
- 16. Why should youconsider Trove? • Trove is searched by 60,000 people every day • Trove is indexed by search engines • Trove drives Internet traffic back to your collection on the web and people into your museums • Inclusion in Trove might help you with further grant applications 16 Group at Martin's Folly Royal Australian Historical Society
- 17. If you wantyour collection online, in Trove, here’s what you need to think about… 1. Metadata 17
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- 20. 2. Rights 20 All rightsreserved •Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales •Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales Reproduction rights owned by the State Library of New South Wales Copyright restrictions may apply. Reproduction rights owned by the Royal Australian Historical Society. You may save or print this image for private research. If you wish to use it for any other purpose you must complete the Request for Permission form.
- 21. 3. Digitisation 21 Frank Walker1861-1948 A New Plan of the Settlements in New South Wales, taken by order of Government, July 20th, 1810. Frank Walker 1861-1948 (1908). Illicit Still, Lawson.
- 22. 22 4. Managing and sharingyour records
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- 24. Questions? 24 For more information… Contactus using the link in the top right hand side of every page in Trove Subscribe to our mailing lists email [email protected] with the subject ‘subscribe trove-announce’. Follow us on Twitter at @TroveAustralia. We tweet about new collections to find in Trove, interesting items we find and any service updates.
Editor's Notes
- #2 Welcome – Who’s heard about Trove? What have you searched? Newspapers?
- #3 A normal presentation about Trove might begin with facts. With figures. The phrase “discovery service” would be used. And at this point in the afternoon I imagine it would be soothing, if not sleep-inducing. So I’ve decided to tell you about Trove by telling you a couple of stories which I hope will show you what Trove is. After I’ve told you these stories (and probably mentioned a couple of facts and figures) I’ll then share with you some ideas to think about how your collections might come into Trove and tell their own stories. Our first story starts with Peter. This is an object in the Queensland Police Museum’s collection. Their description says, he’s an unusual piece of evidence…
- #4 On the evening of the 22 May 1952, Athol Henry McCowan a quiet, popular 23 year old taxi driver was murdered in his taxi-cab. The blood stained taxi was discovered on The Esplanade at Southport the following morning. The body was discovered on 30 May 1952 washed up on Cribb Island
- #5 The murder was covered extensively in newspapers of the time. 32 different newspapers across the country covered the story as it developed.
- #6 Police arrested Arthur Ernest Halliday. He denied being in Southport at the time, but police were able to place him in Southport through key eye witnesses who identified Halliday, his truck and his dog 'Peter'. 'Peter' died prior to the trial and was stuffed and mounted at the Queensland Museum to be used as an exhibit in the trial. Halliday was found guilty and sentenced to life imprisonment at Boggo Road Gaol.
- #7 Halliday was defended by the lawyer Ken Mitchell. The Halliday case would have been one of the most prominent cases he worked on. Research in Trove suggests that Mr Mitchell usually defended bankrupts, deserted women and minor thieves.
- #8 In March 1953 Arthur Halliday was convicted and sentenced to life imprisoment with hard labour. In July he appealed the sentence but the appeal was denied. In December he attempted to escape by lighting a fire. In the following three years he made two successful and four unsuccessful attempts to escape prison. How did it end for Arthur Halliday? The boy who lost his parents at the age of 12, who had lived a mostly itinerant life with previous stints in jail for robbery? Alas I don’t know though I assume he ended his life in Boggo Rd jail. He was still alive in 1967, as there is a Canberra Times report of an attempted prison escape from “Halliday’s leap” – a spot in the jail Halliday twice used in escape attempts. So there we will leave the sad tale of Arthur Halliday, Athol McGowan and Peter. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article150524733 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article42800729 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article77223896 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article91204725 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article50606376 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article106968070
- #9 Our second story starts with a small lump of metal.
- #10 On Easter Sunday morning 1902 Police Constable George Doyle and Station manager Albert Dahlke went hunting for two men who stole a pony. They never returned.
- #11 Patrick and James Keniff were the last two known bushrangers. They were notorious cattle duffers and horse thieves. Earlier on the morning of that Easter Sunday they had visited Albert Dahlke’s cattle station and threatened him. George and Albert’s chase ended in murder. The brothers burnt the bodies of their victims in an attempt to destroy all evidence of their crime. They burnt the bodies and everything on them, they attempted to grind the bones into dust. The remains were stuffed into saddle bags and put on one of the horses, which was later found wandering. The picture of the small, metallic lump, two coins fused together, you saw earlier was found in those saddle bags. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article19139552
- #12 A reward was offered for the Kenniffs` capture and they were caught after three months on the run at Arrest Creek near Mitchell. Patrick was hanged at Brisbane`s Boggo Road Gaol in January 1903. His brother served 12 years in prison.
- #13 There are monuments in Queensland to George and Albert. The images are part of the Monument Australia collection. The statue on the right represents the capture of Patrick Kenniff, lying on the ground with two police constables standing guard over him. The image that is facing to the south is that of the Aboriginal Tracker. The statue on the hill Paddy`s Knob depicts how Jimmy got away and was eventually surrounded by his captors and forced to surrender.
- #14 This murder brought together two important figures in Australian history. Samuel Griffith was the trial judge. He was a federationist, played a leading role in draughting the Australian constitution and was the first Chief Justice of the High Court. T. J. Ryan was the barrister who represented the Kenniff brothers (and according to Anthony Morris QC, not well) who later went on to become a Queensland premier. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/165656198 We often talk about time spent searching Trove as “going down the rabbit hole” as you follow the various leads you find, which open up more leads. However at this point I’ll leave this particular rabbit hole behind.
- #15 Both stories began with one record from a small museum collection. By searching Trove I was able to follow those leads to tell a more complete story using the collections of state libraries, newspapers, archives and historical societies. This small collection opened the doorway
- #16 A collection of collections A place where a collection of 112 records can sit alongside a collection of 112,000 and be found A repository, a catalogue, a gallery Trove is stories We’d love your stories to be part of Trove
- #17 Trove is searched by 70,000 people every day Trove is indexed by search engines Trove drives Internet traffic back to your collection and your musuem – Gold Museum Ballarat Inclusion in Trove can help you with further grant applications - Royal Australian Historical Society won more money thanks to being in Trove. First had records loaded to Trove in September 2013.
- #18 Things worth considering early in the process. Metadata is getting a lot of press lately…In this context it describes the record. Includes: Title Creator Description There are standards you can use. We don’t advocate any particular standard. Whatever you do – be consistent.
- #19 The better and more comprehensive your metadata = more ways to find your records Peter eg.
- #20 If you don’t have the resources to create detailed records, there are ways we can help. Australia Post example Pretty well all the useful metadata was added by us to every record.
- #21 What do you want people to do, or not do, with your records once they’ve found them? Variety of rights statements used.
- #22 Following on from rights…If you are digitising collection items it’s worth thinking about what you’d like to do and therefore what size and format you’ll create. Selling Preserving
- #23 Finally… HOW will you manage and share your records? Hosted services available via the internet Free, or graded charges Ability to share records with Trove and other aggregators Low or no need for IT support No need to buy proprietary software http://victoriancollections.net.au/ http://omeka.org/ https://ehive.com/ http://www.dspace.org/
- #24 What you’re looking at is a prosthetic hand made in 1842 for a soldier who was injured in a parade ground accident. This object is held by the Health Museum of South Australia, who became a Trove content partner in July last year. A week ago and American designer, Ivan Owen, contacted us to ask if we could facilitate the loan of this object. It turns out that this object inspired the creation of something truly life-changing. Owen has created the world's first 3D printed, body-powered partial hand prosthesis which was built for Liam, [CLICK] a boy born without fingers. This work ultimately resulted in an open-source community which has further developed, refined and distributed these hands. There are now over 1,600 individuals across the globe who have received a 3D printed hand at no cost to themselves or their families. Owen hopes to borrow the Coles hand to study its design in detail, take photographs, make notes and observations, and use an optical 3D scanning system to create a full-colour, 3D digital model of the hand. We hope to work with him and the museum to facilitate this work. From a record in Trove to affordable, adaptable prosthetic limbs. The message – sharing your collections can be life changing in ways you can’t anticipate.