Public Knowledge Spaces

What lies behind a statistic? The rise and fall of Trove visitor numbers

National Library of Australia with projection of colourful cartoon-like images on the facade

A few days before Christmas, Deb Verhoeven and I published an article in the Conversation on the latest funding crisis facing the National Library of Australia’s Trove service which included a visitor statistic: Trove boasts more than 22 million visits per year. Here we look at that number, and other usage stats, in more detail.

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Archives, KM and Capability

This post was co-written by Richard Vines, Knowledge Management Specialist, Agriculture Research Division, Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources.

For the past six years, the University of Melbourne’s eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) has collaborated with the Victorian Government’s Department of Economic Development, Jobs, Transport and Resources (DEDJTR) and its predecessors on the socio-technical challenge of developing organisational knowledge about records and their context. Last month some of that work was recognised with a Mander Jones Award for the article ‘Cultivating Capability: The Socio-Technical Challenges of Integrating Approaches to Records and Knowledge Management’ by Michael Jones and Richard Vines.

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Ubiquitous Archives

Our session on Ubiquitous Archives from the Australian Society of Archivists (ASA) Conference in Parramatta, Sydney, Australia, 20 October 2016.

2016/11/17 1

Citation needed

“I know, for I told me so” – Spinal Tap, ‘The Majesty of Rock’ As part of some recent research I had reason to visit the British Museum’s website, including the pages they provide about the history of their collection and… Continue Reading →

2015/08/12 0

Rotters

Yesterday I was reading an article in The New Yorker which contained a statistic that shocked me. But first, a tangent. Citing things on the web is a challenge. The New Yorker article I want to refer to here is… Continue Reading →

2015/01/21 4

Sex and the wiki

I spent my walk home thinking about an article I read just before leaving the office: How can Wikipedia woo women editors? Unlike some of the comments (yes, I read them) I don’t think the problem has arisen because women… Continue Reading →

2014/04/08 0

My Year in Review

Traditionally around this time people start looking back, trying to sum up what happened over the past twelve months in politics, culture, society, or their own lives. I also find people I know outside work still regularly ask me what… Continue Reading →

2012/12/19 0

Submission in response to consultation paper on the Royal Commission

On 26 November 2012, some of my colleagues and I submitted a response to the Australian Government’s consultation paper on the Establishment of the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. My involvement came about through my position… Continue Reading →

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