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This lecture examines opportunities for better collaboration between museums, archives and libraries. It will cover: How improved collaboration (especially in discovery services and data exchange) can deliver significant benefits to collecting institutions' users; Some of the models and standards that support collaboration; and The National Library's new discovery service, Trove, and how it will help improve collaboration. Introduction Today I will discuss the opportunities for collaboration among the different sectors that constitute Australia’s collecting institutions: in other words, col...

1 July 2008 - 12:00 This paper explains some of the work done during the Rights Management project at the National Library of Australia, looking at the background to the project, the expected benefits, the process of design and development and user engagement, and explains how some of the many challenges encountered to date have been met. Background Rights, including copyright, are not the main thing people using the National Library are interested in, and many users struggle to understand why so many obstacles are placed in their way when they want a copy of an old manuscript, or want to per...

1 January 2009 - 12:00 In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections.  The new service, branded “Trove”, was released in December 2009 after six months as a beta service.  Trove is not only replacing eight legacy services, but is improving the discovery experience for the Australian public and researchers by including more content and by allowing users to engage with the content. This paper will describe the policy and technical challenges which were face...