GLAM Peak Albury

Wikimedia Australia is a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop held at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albury_Library_Museum Albury Library Museum], Monday 27 and Tuesday 27 November 2017.
[[File:Albury railway station sign.jpg|thumb|Welcome to Albury]]
This free two-day workshop focussed on digitisation and the provision of digital access to collections, and provided Wikimedia Australia committee members, Pru Mitchell and Robert Myers the chance to network with regional GLAM organisations.

Twitter hashtag [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23digaccess_nsw&src=typd #digaccess_nsw]

[[File:Wikimedia Australia stand GLAM Peak.jpg|thumb|Wikimedia Australia stand GLAM Peak]]


== Who attended ==
[[File:Albury_Library_Museum_from_upstairs.jpg|thumb|Albury Library Museum]]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th/13th_Victorian_Mounted_Rifles 8/13 VMR Regimental Collection]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albury_Library_Museum Albury Library Museum]

Australian Golf Heritage Society Museum

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry,_New_South_Wales Berry and District Historical Society]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chiltern,_Victoria Chiltern] Athenaeum

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flying_Fruit_Fly_Circus Flying Fruit Fly Circus Foundation]

Greens Gunyah Museum

[https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Headlie_Taylor_Header_Museum.jpg Headlie Taylor Header Museum]
[[File:Headlie_Taylor_Header_Museum.jpg|thumb|Headlie Taylor Header Museum]]

Heritage Preservation Services

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jindera Jindera Pioneer Museum]

Lavington Family History

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeton_Shire Leeton Shire Council]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_Monash Monash Public Library Service]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Mornington_Peninsula Mornington Peninsula Shire]

Pioneer Womens Hut [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumbarumba Tumbarumba] and Tumbarumba High School

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prahran_Mechanics%27_Institute Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Automobile_Club_of_Victoria RACV]

Riverina Regional Library

Rutherglen Historical Society

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley,_Victoria Stanley Athenaeum and Public Room]

Woolpack Inn Museum

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarra_Plenty_Regional_Library Yarra Plenty Regional Library]

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yarrawonga,_Victoria Yarrawonga] Mulwala Historical Society

== What we want to learn ==

* future proofing
* what to do with the original after digitisation
* database management and maintenance
* how to plan for digitisation
* how to choose a system
* how to promote collections
* how to engage with users of the online collection - make it a two-way conversation
* digitisation technology
* cross reference items across different categories
* how to get agreement on prioritising
* where to get funding, particularly for recurrent costs, or to update technology
* what everyone else is doing
* what is the best way to proceed


== What worries us? ==
* resourcing of volunteers and staff
* how to maintain access - for general public
* physical access to collections
* obsolesence
* copyright
* how to access grants and funding
* overwhelming size of the digitisation task
* how to protect items during the digitisation process
* how to educate volunteers on importance of digitisation
* how to educate volunteers in use of technology, and spread the load
* succession planning, getting younger people engaged in volunteering
* how to get techsavvy volunteers
* how to coordinate
* lack of cataloguing
* process for small collections is too complex
* control of sensitive digitised material on the web

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