Category: Digitisation

book:logic and AustESE Workshop

Published: Tue, 2013-06-18 12:55 by Roger Osborne

The book:logic series of symposia was established in 2010 to bring together postgraduate students, postdoctoral fellows, independent researchers and academics whose work involves aspects of textual studies: the scholarly editing of literary works and historical documents, the study of versions of works, editorial theory, physical bibliography, codicology and history of the book.

The 2013 Symposium will meet at UQ on Friday 4 October. For more information and to register, please visit the Symposium blog: http://booklogic2013.wordpress.com/

In conjunction with the book:logic symposium, the AustESE Project (http://austese.net/) is running a workshop on electronic scholarly editing on Thursday 3 October. Information and registration details will be posted on the book:logic blog.

Exploring Trove Images

Published: Mon, 2013-02-11 16:09 by Michael Whiteway

TroveMosaic is an experimental interface for the Trove picture search. Enter a query, and it will build a mosaic from the top 500 records. Group the results by title, collection or decade for different views, and click an image to see it in its home collection.

This project is the work of Mitchell Whitelaw, part of an ongoing project creating generous interfaces for digital cultural collections. Along with the Manly Images interface, TroveMosaic was funded by the State Library of New South Wales.

TroveMosaic requires a modern, standards-compliant browser like Chrome, Safari or Firefox. It is designed for desktop browsers and probably won't work perfectly on mobile or tablet devices (yet).

Trove picture search contains over 7.3 million images on almost every conceivable subject. Hundreds of organisations contribute material including the University of Queensland Library, Queensland Department of Public Works, Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads, Geoscience Australia, Royal Geographical Society of South Australia, Australian Academy of Science, Australian Institute of Marine Science, Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation, CSIRO, and the Defence Science and Technology Organisation.