(6 Feb 2025) Trove’s newspaper collection continues to grow every day. Trove Partners collaborate with Trove to digitise their collections and make them available online to all Australians. We spoke with 2 of our Trove Partners about their experience working with Trove to digitize some of their local newspapers. The partners are Merri-bek Libraries…
(8 Jan 2024) The National Library of Australia is breaking new ground, having successfully implemented a technology that turns handwritten documents into machine-readable text. This innovation, dubbed Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR), will unlock the words of both famous and everyday Australians, making them readily accessible on Trove, the library’s online database. Approximately 10,000 digitized…
(3 Apr 2023) Funding for the country’s largest digitized archive has been announced, after months of the National Library of Australia (NLA) calling for more financial support. In its upcoming May budget, the federal government has promised $33 million over four years to the NLA. The NLA, which runs digital archive database Trove, will…
(21 Dec 2022) Federal funding for the National Library of Australia’s digital resource, Trove, runs out in six months and without additional government support the popular archive could cease operations from next July. The beloved platform receives more than 22 million visits each year and has been caught in the same financial crunch impacting the National…
(27 Jun 2020) From the Canberran Times: Canberrans will now have access to a new and improved treasure trove of information as the National Library launched its new program on Friday. More than 3000 Australians contributed to a new and improved Trove system, which was unveiled after four years of work. The federal government announced a…
(26 October 2018) Australians have a truly unique resource in the National Library’s Trove, and it needs to be protected The National Library of Australia’s Trove brings together freely available content from libraries, museums and archives, supporting online discovery of the country’s documentary heritage. Trove is also that rare beast: a digital heritage platform with…
Discovering serialised fiction in Trove’s digitised newspapers (28 February 2018) Literary historian Katherine Bode describes how she and bibliographer Carol Hetherington used Trove to create a database of over 21,000 novels, novellas and short stories published in early Australian newspapers. This database enables anyone to read, explore, correct, add and export the fiction early Australians…
(31 May 2016) It’s been one year since Trove started working with ORCID. The ORCID site enables researchers to create a more complete overview of their work. You may remember from our previous blog, Spot the Blue Square that ORCID helps researchers claim the work they’ve written, the data sets they’ve created, the funding grants they’ve…
(12 February 2016) Over the past three years the National Library of Australia has been working through replacement of its digital systems. In January this year the new delivery system for maps and other pictorial formats was launched, and added to people’s ability to use the materials. Nearly 40,000 maps from over 18,0000 catalogue records…
(26 September 2015) Under an innovative digital library program, the National Library of Australia (NLA) is redeveloping infrastructure to manage its huge digital collections and provide access to collections from hundreds of libraries across its network, reports Shahida Sweeney on the CIO website. The library is expanding its online and mobile services for Australian and…