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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives: March 2012

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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives. Sunday, 25 March 2012. Crowdsourcing: the crowd ‘rations’ its experience to make it last. I know from experience that this is the case because online volunteers working on the Australian Newspapers text correction have told me this. Also after adding thousands of new pages to the service, surges in text correction would be observed. This was a regular pattern. The objectives are upside down, by Trevor Owens 10 March 2012. We don&#8217...

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Cultural Footnotes Australia: November 2011

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Sunday, 13 November 2011. Arts funding, Young Turks and old lexiconic straitjackets. Ironically, the euphemistic term “Young Turks”. Is used rather loosely currently to imply that these ‘youngsters’. 8211; new kids on the block. 8211; are change agents. Of a kind. Strangely the term is used in ways that seems to be ignorant of – careless of perhaps? 8211; the euphemism's historic context. You see, “the Young Turks were the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide”. As recently as 2006 this idea bobbed up in...

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Cultural Footnotes Australia: New National Cultural Policy

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Friday, 11 November 2011. New National Cultural Policy. Http:/ culture.arts.gov.au/. From the Minister for the Arts. After ten weeks of public consultation the Australian Government will be using your feedback in finalising the development of a new National Cultural Policy. 8211; the first in nearly 20 years. Have contributed valuable suggestions and feedback. This policy will reflect the many conversations. THE HON SIMON CREAN MP. Crean's chance to make a difference to nation's cultural landscape. Arts ...

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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives: February 2012

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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives. Sunday, 26 February 2012. Crowdsourcing Australian Climate Change. In my last blog post. I described how knitters and yarn enthusiasts were crowdsourcing knitting patterns from digitised Australian newspapers in Trove. For use in a crowdsourcing site called Ravelry http:/ www.ravelry.com. Australian newspapers hold unique content, for example convict records and climate records. In. The citizens and politicians of. With a $10,000 gran...

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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives: January 2012

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Rose Holley's Blog - views and news on digital libraries and archives. Sunday, 29 January 2012. Dealing with the Digital Deluge: 10 challenges for GLAM’s. On the proposed National Cultural Policy. To the National Cultural Policy. In this post I wanted to explain in more detail the 10 challenges for GLAM’s of ‘dealing with the digital deluge’. 1 The amount of material being generated in traditional non-digital formats has not decreased. Things needed to meet the challenge:. Top Ideas - Creative Australia ...

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For your Cold Hard Cash, accommodation, food, lifts and GEAR … THANK YOU! So…could your name go here? There’s a ‘ donate. 8216; button on the right if you wanna give it a go, or contact me. If you want to offer a sofa/spare room, meal or lift. In descending order…. Then during the campaign. I was with Anna. And back to my old place in Sydney couchsurfing on my own sofa thanks to Elliott. Here’s the crowdfunding thanks. Page, btw. Then I spent the longest time of all with the fabulous Steve Mayhew. Popped...

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susan.cairns - THATCamp Canberra

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Website: www.museumgeek.wordpress.com. I'm a museum geek and a vintage fashion tragic. I'm currently immersed deeply into the first year of my PhD, examining the emerging role of online museum collections in redefining what museums and their place in the twenty first century. I'm also the website coordinator at Newcastle Region Art Gallery and an ongoing intern with the Web Services team at the Powerhouse Museum - so although my research is theoretical and philosophical, my work isn't. And get a sense of...

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Music Health - Creative Communities

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Health Promotion and Music. Singing for good health. I'm interested to learn about how people can make a difference to their lives, through their music occupations. Some areas to consider:. People: Who is involved? What relationships connect in music-making? What are the politics? Environment: How does the environment support music-making? Occupation: What role do people take in music-making? How is it done? Ideas: Early Childhood Musical Development. It's creating things that appeal to listeners. Observ...

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Session proposal - THATCamp Canberra

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Archive for the ‘Session proposal’ Category. Click happy – creating image and multimedia collections. I am interested in how people are managing their digital image collections, including working with RAW images. What cataloging, metadata and annotation tools are people using, either offline or online? How do we analyse our image collections and what tools are there to help with this? Building a bootcamp sampler. UPDATE: Thanks Anna Gerber. For offering to hold our hands on this one. Where you can easily...