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Service updates:People Australia
ARROW Discovery ServicePicture Australia
Basil DewhurstManager, Resource Discovery [email protected]
Overview
• People Australia• ARROW Discovery Service• Picture Australia
People Australia
People Australia will be an online service that:• Takes a topic based approach to resource
discovery• Provides access to records about people and
organisations• Allows users to find and get resources, by/about
a person or organisation• Interoperates with contributing services
People Australia
• Project progress 2006-07– Analysis and design– Search prototype
• Future work 2007-08– Harvester– Data administration– Web services
ARROW Discovery Service
http://search.arrow.edu.au
ARROW DS
ARROW DS 2007-08
• ARROW Redevelopment– Increase access to Australian research– Streamline metadata harvesting– Improve statistics and reporting– Explore making online journals available
Picture Australia 2006-07
• New image records 178,642 (13% increase)• 4 New Contributors:
– ANU Canberra School of Art – Monash University Centre for Gippsland Studies – Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales– Curtin University Library
• 49 Contributors / 106 Collections
Picture Australia Redesign
Picture Australia Redesign
Picture Australia Redesign
Picture Australia Flickr Contributors
• People, Places and Events• Established January 2006• 21,148 image records• 714 members
• Ourtown • Established March 2007• 873 images• 119 members
Picture Australia 2007-08
• Implementation of the new design
• Flickr
• Trail blazing
• National Photography Festival
• Google seeding
Service updates:People Australia
ARROW Discovery ServicePicture Australia
Basil DewhurstManager, Resource Discovery [email protected]