Service updates: People Australia ARROW Discovery Service Picture Australia

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Service updatesPeople AustraliaARROW Discovery
ServicePicture Australia

• Basil Dewhurst
• Manager, Resource Discovery Services
• bdewhurst_at_nla.gov.au

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Overview

• People Australia
• ARROW Discovery Service
• Picture Australia

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People Australia

• People Australia will be an online service that
• Takes a topic based approach to resource
  discovery
• Provides access to records about people and
  organisations
• Allows users to find and get resources, by/about
  a person or organisation
• Interoperates with contributing services

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People Australia

• Project progress 2006-07
• Analysis and design
• Search prototype
• Future work 2007-08
• Harvester
• Data administration
• Web services

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ARROW Discovery Service

• http//search.arrow.edu.au

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ARROW DS
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ARROW DS 2006-07
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ARROW DS 2007-08

• ARROW Redevelopment
• Increase access to Australian research
• Streamline metadata harvesting
• Improve statistics and reporting
• Explore making online journals available

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Picture Australia 2006-07

• New image records 178,642 (13 increase)
• 4 New Contributors
• ANU Canberra School of Art
• Monash University Centre for Gippsland Studies
• Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
• Curtin University Library
• 49 Contributors / 106 Collections

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Picture Australia Redesign
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Picture Australia Redesign
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Picture Australia Redesign
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Picture Australia Flickr Contributors

• People, Places and Events
• Established January 2006
• 21,148 image records
• 714 members
• Ourtown
• Established March 2007
• 873 images
• 119 members

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Picture Australia 2007-08

• Implementation of the new design
• Flickr
• Trail blazing
• National Photography Festival
• Google seeding

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Service updatesPeople AustraliaARROW Discovery
ServicePicture Australia

• Basil Dewhurst
• Manager, Resource Discovery Services
• bdewhurst_at_nla.gov.au