Beyond discovery
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This document provides an overview of the Trove digital library platform and its usage statistics, features, and potential future directions. It notes that Trove contains over 370 million resources and receives 70,000 daily visits from its 100,000 registered users. It highlights various tools and features powered by the Trove API that allow new forms of research and discovery, such as visualizing newspaper front pages over time and mining papers for research trends. It also discusses opportunities to expand content, engage users, improve metadata, and develop new applications and experiences.
Beyond discovery
- 1. Beyond Discovery Tim Sherratt (@wragge) Trove Manager
- 2. two views of Trove
- 4. 70,000 visits a day
- 6. 2 million user tags
- 7. 100 million text corrections
- 8. big numbers
- 9. Louisa Elizabeth Nichols was 32 years old when, on 24 July 1901... Kate Bagnall, A mothers struggle http://chineseaustralia.org/archives/1883
- 10. Louisa Elizabeth Nichols was 32 years old when, on 24 July 1901... Kate Bagnall, A mothers struggle http://chineseaustralia.org/archives/1883
- 11. small stories
- 12. making history
- 14. API powered
- 15. big pictures
- 26. PaperMiner
- 28. voodoo doll OR stuffed dog
- 29. voodoo doll OR stuffed dog http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture/result?q=%22voodoo+doll%22+OR+%22stuffed+dog%22
- 30. we want your stuff
- 31. Zone Count Journals, articles and research 151,983,595 Books 18,204,100 Maps 568,455 Diaries, letters, archives 554,761 Lists 44,283 Music, sound and video 3,140,228 Digitised Newspapers and more People and organisations 113,316,516 918,700 Pictures, photos, objects 7,700,200 Archived websites (1996 - now) 77,190,085 http://trove.nla.gov.au/system/counts
- 34. many small acts of meaning making
- 36. Hall of fame
- 38. Making lists 5,796 users 27,911 lists 444,819 items
- 40. coming clean
- 41. behind the news
- 44. Paul Hagon, Trove crowdsourcing behaviour http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/trove-crowdsourcing-behaviour
- 45. missing metadata & black boxes
- 50. beyond service
- 51. lets make a deal