GLAM Peak Albury

Revision as of 01:04, 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

Albury Library Museum

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

Leeton Family and Local History Society

Leeton Shire Council

Monash Public Library Service

Mornington Peninsula Shire

Pioneer Womens Hut Tumbarumba and Tumbarumba High School

Prahran Mechanics' Institute Victorian History Library

RACV

Riverina Regional Library

Rutherglen Historical Society

Stanley Athenaeum and Public Room

Woolpack Inn Museum

Yarra Plenty Regional Library

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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-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.
+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.
 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
+Twitter hashtag [https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=%23digaccess_nsw&src=typd #digaccess_nsw]
 == Who attended ==
-/13 VMR Regimental Collection
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th/13th_Victorian_Mounted_Rifles 8/13 VMR Regimental Collection]
 Albury Library Museum
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 Australian Golf Heritage Society Museum
-Berry & District Historical Society
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry,_New_South_Wales Berry and District Historical Society]
 Chiltern Athenaeum
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 Lavington Family History
-Leeton Family & Local History Society Inc
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeton,_New_South_Wales Leeton Family and Local History Society]
 Leeton Shire Council
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 Rutherglen Historical Society
-Stanley Athenaeum & Public Room
+[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley,_Victoria Stanley Athenaeum and Public Room]
 Woolpack Inn Museum