VALA2010 Session 7 Cathro

VALA20120Developing Trove: the policy and technical challenges

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 – Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-7-cathro

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperWarwick Cathro

Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing and Innovation, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

Susan Collier

Project Manager, Trove Project, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

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Abstract

In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service, branded “Trove”, was released in December 2009 after six months as a beta service. Trove is not only replacing eight legacy services, but is improving the discovery experience for the Australian public and researchers by including more content and by allowing users to engage with the content. This paper will describe the policy and technical challenges which were faced by the Library during this project, and will outline the Library’s plans for the further development of Trove.

VALA2006 Session 1 Cathro

VALA2006

Improving information infrastructure: the recent activities of the National Library of Australia

VALA 2006 CONCURRENT SESSION 1: New Technology
Wednesday 8 February 2006, 10:45 – 11:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2006-proceedings/vala2006-session-1-cathro

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperWarwick Cathro

Assistant Director-General, Innovation, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Abstract

The National Library of Australia is undertaking a number of initiatives aimed at improving the infrastructure that provides access to information resources by Australian libraries and their users. It is giving priority to developing infrastructure services which will benefit the general public by providing them with online access to a greater range of content and providing them with easy-to-use services to discover and access information content, including the collections of Australian libraries. The paper describes some of these activities, including the recently completed Kinetica Redevelopment Project.