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Monash Public Library Service | Monash Public Library Service | ||
Mornington Peninsula Shire | [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shire_of_Mornington_Peninsula Mornington Peninsula Shire] | ||
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Yarrawonga Mulwala Historical Society | Yarrawonga Mulwala Historical Society | ||
== What we want to learn == | == What we want to learn == | ||
Revision as of 05:26, 27 November 2017
Wikimedia Australia is a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop held at the Albury Library Museum, Monday 27 and Tuesday 27 November 2017. 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 #digaccess_nsw
Who attended
8/13 VMR Regimental Collection
Australian Golf Heritage Society Museum
Berry and District Historical Society
Chiltern Athenaeum
Flying Fruit Fly Circus Foundation
Greens Gunyah Museum
Headlie Taylor Header Museum
Heritage Preservation Services
Jindera Pioneer Museum
Lavington Family History
Monash Public Library Service
Pioneer Womens Hut Tumbarumba and Tumbarumba High School
Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library
Riverina Regional Library
Rutherglen Historical Society
Stanley Athenaeum and Public Room
Woolpack Inn Museum
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