Presentation at ARLIS conference Darwin, September 2010 by Rose Holley. Demonstrates how Trove aggregrates information for Art resources and is a useful tool for researchers, artists and librarians.
12. Picture Australia vs Trove Picture Australia Trove Format : Images only Images, sound, video, books, archives, maps, websites, biographies, journals, newspapers, research outputs. Content type : Digital only Digital and non-digital Size: 2 million 90 million User engagement: Add own images Add own images AND forum, comments, tags, rating, lists, corrections. Subject Focus: Australian pictures Anything Australian Contributors: 60 1300 Metadata display : ‘old catalogue style’ FRBR (works and grouped versions)
50. Trove activity in an average day August 2010: Searching peaks at 11,000 per hour, text correction at 9,000 lines per hour, average number of unique users per day is 10,000.