1. Stories to Tell: The Making of Our Digital Nation – Resource List
A new type of digital volunteer is quietly adding to the sum of knowledge of our history and
heritage on the web.
‘Ordinary Australians’ have helped correct millions of lines of text in the National Library of Australia’s
Newspaper Digitisation Program. They have contributed thousands of photographs to our national
digital picture collection and helped museums like the Powerhouse identify and locate the subjects of
their historical images. They have transcribed birth, death and marriage records so that they are
searchable on sites like the Ryerson Index and Family Search Index. They have made thousands of out
of copyright books electronically available. They have told their own stories through local websites like
Mosman Memories of your Street.
At this session, you will discover some of the most interesting projects in Australia. You may like to get
involved or just learn about the resources available for your own research.
Speaker: Rose Holley, Manager – Trove, National Library of Australia rholley@nla.gov.au
Presentation at Mosman Library, 22 April 2010, National Trust Heritage Festival.
Sites that need your help:
1. National Library of Australia Sites
Australian Historic Newspapers (help correct text):
http://newspapers.nla.gov.au/
Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program:
http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/
Picture Australia:
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/index.html
Contribute Your Photos:
http://www.pictureaustralia.org/contribute/individual.html
Trove (comment, tag, rate and newspapers):
http://trove.nla.gov.au
2. Other Library sites
Flickr Commons (help identify and describe public domain images from Australian institutions)
http://www.flickr.com/commons/
WikiNorthia (articles on north Melbourne suburbs)
http://www.wikinorthia.net.au/
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2. WikiShepp (articles onGoulburn)
http://www.gvrlc.vic.gov.au/wikishepp/index.php/Main_Page
Mosman Memories (street memories of Mosman)
http://www.mosmanmemories.net/
3. Archive sites
AustraliaGenWeb (part of WorldGenWeb) Transcribe archives/maintain genie web hubs
http://www.australiagenweb.org/
Shipping in Australian Waters (transcribe shipping lists)
http://mariners.records.nsw.gov.au
4. Non-profit making organisations
Wikipedia (write articles on people, places, events, topics)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosman,_New_South_Wales
Distributed Proofreaders (create e-books)
http://www.pgdp.net/c
FamilySearchIndex (transcribe indexes)
http://www.familysearch.org
Ryerson Index to Contemporary death notices (transcribe current day newspaper obituaries)
http://www.ryersonindex.org/
ABC Pool (create images, video, music, poetry and share)
http://pool.org.au/
5. New sites to watch out for developments:
Founders and Survivors – new project April 2010 (give your information on convicts)
http://www.foundersandsurvivors.org/plans
ABC Open new project to start April 2010 (contribute to regional news stories)
http://www.abc.net.au/open/
6. Interesting book to read
Clay Shirky. Here comes everybody. http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/8124584
7. Youtube videos
The machine is Us/ing us
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLlGopyXT_g&feature=channel
Times are changing: the medieval helpdesk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX-SjgQvQ
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