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Trove master class

Trove Support Team. Trove master class. Five things you didn’t know about Trove…. 1. Trove isn’t just newspapers. A wedding portrait of John Turnbull McLaren and Mary McDougall McLean, 1887. Pictures. Flinders Shire Historical Photograph Project.

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Trove master class

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  1. Trove Support Team Trove masterclass

  2. Five things you didn’t know about Trove…

  3. 1.Trove isn’t just newspapers

  4. A wedding portrait of John Turnbull McLaren and Mary McDougall McLean, 1887 Pictures Flinders Shire Historical Photograph Project Barrier Miner, (Broken Hill, NSW: 1888-1954), 14 October 1915 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180873929 Portrait of John T McLaren, 1935 http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/180873882

  5. Maritime Museum of Tasmania Brass sextant …acquired by Captain DS Bull in 1877 as 3rd. mate of "Kosciusco" http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177270809 Photograph of Captain Bentley &​ Captain Rex http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177268915 Pictures and objects JAMES CRAIG (1874) Australian Register of Historic Vessels http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/177270824

  6. Objects Queensland Police Museum http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/178528777 The Courier-Mail (Brisbane, Qld. : 1933 - 1954), Tuesday 3 March 1953, page 1

  7. 2. Text correcting

  8. Why correct text? • Text created through OCR is searched by Trove • OCR is not always accurate • Correcting the text improves accuracy of the text • Every correction improves search results for all users

  9. Community involvement • Text correction is free • No need to register • Registered users can: • See their correction history • Appear in the Hall of Fame

  10. Community involvement • 106 million lines corrected • 100,000 users • Range from 1 correction to 2 million+ corrections

  11. What to do • Fix the OCR text so it matches what was published • Match the line of text to the same line on the image • Use tags and comments to provide corrections to what was originally published

  12. What not to do • Add text not in the original newspaper • Change the text from what was originally published • Move text so that it does not match the line it was originally in

  13. 3. Lists

  14. http://trove.nla.gov.au/list?id=43805

  15. http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn6216779

  16. List making • 5,796 Trove users • 27,911 public lists • 449,624 items

  17. 4. The Trove Forum

  18. What are the forums for? • Your space as Trove users • Collaborate and communicate with other Trove users • Community help resource • News resource • Create your account by logging in to Trove, then clicking on the ‘forum’ link

  19. Tips for using the forums • Search first if you have a question, someone may have already asked it • Use the ‘contact us’ form if you need input from a Trove team member • Remember, the forums are a user space.

  20. 5. Keeping up with new content

  21. ABC Radio National

  22. The Canberra Times

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