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Latest revision as of 12:30, 28 June 2019
Wikimedia Australia was a technology partner for the GLAM Peak Digital Access to Collections workshop held at the Geelong Library and Heritage Centre on Tuesday 27 and Wednesday 28 February 2018.
The workshop included welcomes from:
- Mark Beasley, Manager of the Geelong Heritage Centre Collection & Heritage Centre Services, Geelong Regional Library Corporation
- Robin Hurst, Co-chair of GLAM Peak.
Day 2 commenced with a tour of the Heritage Centre reading room and repository.
Pru Mitchell and Leigh Blackall attended on behalf of Wikimedia Australia. We were joined by a student intern from RMIT's Bachelor of Design (Communication Design).
Twitter hashtag #digaccess_vic
Who attended?
- Albert Park South Melbourne Rowing Club
- Anglesea & District Historical Society
- Ballan Shire Historical Society Inc.
- Ballarat Tramway Museum
- Barwon Rowing Club
- Bellarine Historical Society
- Bush Church Aid Society of Australia
- City of Ballarat Library
- Colac & District Family History Group
- Deakin University Library
- Encompass Community Services
- Erica and District Historical Society
- Geelong & District Historical Association
- Geelong Family History Group
- Geelong Museum Association
- Geelong Regional Libraries
- Goldfields Library Corporation
- Hobsons Bay City Council
- Hume Libraries
- Linton and District Historical Society
- Melbourne Cricket Club
- Melbourne Polytechnic
- Meredith History Interest Group
- Mitchell Shire Council
- Nillumbik Historical Society
- Queenscliffe Historical Museum
- Royal Historical Society of Victoria
- Surf Coast Family History Group
- Terang & District Historical Society
- Torquay and District Historical Society
- Torquay Museum Without Walls
- University of Melbourne
- Wimmera Regional Library Corporation
- Yarra Plenty Regional Library
What we want to learn
Participants in the workshop identified the following aspects of digital access of interest.
- funding opportunities
- taking the skills we learn back and train others
- building enthusiasm
- managing both physical and digital versions- and linking the two formats on site
- levels of resourcing and appropriate
- cataloguing and metadata
- longevity of digitisation
- what is best practice for putting content online
- a code of conduct for putting content online
- prioritising digitisation tasks
- copyright
- identifying copyright and ownership
- where to start with digitisation
- the differences between different technical platforms
- choosing the right technology partners - ensuring they will be there for the longterm
- pros and cons of outsourcing digitisation
- how do we host our collection
- how do we share our collection
- Search engine optimisation
What worries participants
- urgency of digitisation
- budget: paying for equipment and training
- cultural impact of licensing
- accessibility - to our community, keeping access simple
- amount of time spent
- making mistakes in our work
- archiving and backup
- long term viability of the entities hosting technology and content
- technology changes so quickly - what is the exit strategy
- how to migrate data between management systems
- succession planning and sharing this corporate knowledge
- copyright and licensing
- how to give permission for re-use
- fear of losing control of content
- resources: time, money, skills
- format obsolesence
- choosing what to digitise
- enough people trained to do the job
Editing activity
- Grenville Standard photographs
- Linton article
- Torquay Museum Without Walls citations
- Point Henry citations, including naming
- Photograph of the view from Point Henry 2003
- Bush Church Aid