Capturing the history of Victoria’s Field Naturalists
VALA2024 CONCURRENT SESSION 03
Tuesday 9th July 2024, 3.05-3.35pm
Nicole Kearney
- Manager, Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia
- Museums Victoria
First presenter
- BHL Digitisation & Technical Support Officer
- Museums Victoria
Presentation: (coming soon)
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Abstract
In 2023, BHL Australia (the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library) received two grants to gather the history of Victoria’s field naturalist clubs and to share the invaluable contribution these community organisations have made to Victoria’s heritage. The first, a Public Record Office Victoria (PROV) Local History Grant, is funding the digitisation of the legacy publications of Victoria’s naturalists’ clubs and the creation of an online collection. The second, a Wikimedia Australia Partner Grant, will enable the creation of Wikipedia pages and Wikidata records for each organisation’s publications and people, and the uploading of archival images into Wikimedia Commons.
Biographies
Nicole Kearney manages the Australian branch of the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL) and leads the BHL’s global Persistent Identifier Working Group (Team #RetroPIDs). She is a zoologist and science communicator striving to link all biodiversity knowledge online and to make the world’s biodiversity literature freely accessible and discoverable for everyone.
Jack Eastaugh is a Digitisation and Technical Support Officer for Biodiversity Heritage Library Australia and a recent graduate of Curtin University’s Master of Information Science. He has previously interned in Monash University Library’s Special Collections and volunteered for Museums Victoria Records and Archives. Jack has a keen interest in Preservation Digitisation and making archival and unpublished material accessible in the library space.
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