Category: Digital Collections
Exploring Trove Images
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.
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Looking for a Data Repository
Digging into Data is a useful online resource listing repositories.
It includes:
- Digital libraries
- Data archives
- Data repositories
For each repository, you'll find a description of their contents, contact information, and other details.
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Europeana's huge cultural dataset opens for re-use
Europeana is an online library endorsed by the European Commission, for millions of books, paintings, films, museum objects and archival records that have been digitised throughout Europe. Europeana has recently opened its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose - creative, educational, commercial - with no restrictions.
Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the European Commission with responsibility for the Digital Agenda for Europe, said: "Open data is such a powerful idea, and Europeana is such a cultural asset, that only good things can result from the marriage of the two. People often speak about closing the digital divide and opening up culture to new audiences but very few can claim such a big contribution to those efforts as Europeana's shift to creative commons." Europeana's huge cultural dataset opens for re-use , Press Release - The Hague, 12 September 2012
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New online catalogue for UQ Anthropology Museum
The University of Queensland Anthropology Museum has launched a new online catalogue, which includes records of over 26 000 items from the Museum's ethnographic, photographic and lithic collections.
The catalogue is available to the public via a new website: www.anthropologymuseum.uq.edu.au/ .
In 1949, L P Winterbotham's personal collection was donated to the University forming the basis of the Anthropology Museum. The catalogue includes descriptions and images of items from the Winterbotham foundation collection.
The Fryer Library holds some examples of L .P Winterbotham's anthropological work as well as photographs of the opening of the anthropological museum, which are available on eSpace.
Sir Fred Schonell unveiling the plaque at the opening of the Winterbotham Anthropology Museum, University of Queensland St Lucia Campus, Fryer Library University of Queensland Photograph Collection, image UQFL466 AH_P_63, Fryer Library, University of Queensland Library.
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