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GLAM Innovation Study Australian Chris Winter’s presentation on the Society of Archivists GLAM Innovation Study NSW Branch Newsletter Report by Chris Winter & Barbara Hoffman OCTOBER 2015 16 September 2015 THIS ISSUE CONTAINS: David Roberts (Newington College Archivist) welcomed Chris Winter to the Branch • Chris Winter – GLAM Study meeting. David described how as a 15 year • A&D Workshop old in 1971, he was listening to Chris Winter’s ABC Radio music program ‘Room to Move’ • Recordkeeping Roundtable event and was introduced to Prog Rock, in particular • 2016 Parramatta Conference King Crimson. A lifelong passion was born. The NSW Branch was delighted to have a • Visit to UNSW Archives ‘fan’ introduce our speaker for the evening. • DOCAM Conference Chris Winter began his presentation by giving • Open Palace Program us the background of his interest in the world of collections. • Queen Mary Building In 2008 while he was still at the ABC, he was approached by the National Library of public space naming project Australia who were seeking access to the ABC’s archival metadata that they were • Digital Preservation Meetup keen to add to the datasets already searchable through TROVE. The outcome is that the NLA is now able to automatically harvest and index a large number of • Creativity in Wartime – GCS Gallery weekly Radio National programs with current programs being available for search • Public Service / War Service through Trove within 24 hours of broadcast. • NSW Branch Information Continues on page 2… NOTICE OF THE NEXT ASA NSW BRANCH MEETING OCTOBER 2015 Date Wednesday 21 October 2015 Time 5.30pm refreshments for 6.00pm start Donation $5 to cover drinks and nibbles. Venue Macleay Museum, University of Sydney Located on the top floor of the Macleay Building in Science Road, adjacent to the Quadrangle. The Museum entrance is in Gosper Lane at the western end of the Macleay Building. (Click here for map.) Lift access is available if anyone needs it. Please let us know in advance as you will need to be swiped up. Event Our host Jan Brazier, Curator, History Collections at the Macleay Museum will take us through the various historically rich cultural and scientific collections held at the Museum, in particular the current exhibition ‘Written in Stone’. (http://sydney.edu.au/museums/collections/macleay.shtml) NSW Branch Meeting A business meeting will not be held this month. Minutes of previous business meetings: http://www.archivists.org.au/community/branches/new-south-wales Continues from page 1 About the same time he was approached by urban historian Dr Sarah Barns (now a Research Fellow based at the Institute for Culture and Society at Western Sydney University) who was wanting access to the ABC’s Radio archives in order to create an online, map-based opportunity to associate archival sounds with points of historic interest in Sydney’s CBD. This led to the development of a mobile and web based application called Sydney Sidetracks which delivers archival sound, vision, and images connected to 60 points of interest in Sydney’s CBD supported David Roberts introduces our guest speaker Chris Winter and shares his musical passions. by a narrative written by Sarah. Almost all the Sydney Sidetracks audio and video came from the ABC and the still The GLAM acronym really only works in Innovation/best practice images came mostly from the Museum Australia – most other jurisdictions refer They were also keen to identify of Applied Arts and Sciences and the to galleries as art museums. In North examples of best practice and State Library of NSW both of whom America for example, galleries are innovation, such as: were very eager to assist. places where you buy paintings. (Most More adventures in digital public space galleries in Australia are members of • Open access to collections – better, innovation followed but last year Chris Museums Australia.) although still fairly uneven • Federated discovery – eg Trove was very successfully distracted by an Chris and his team consulted informally invitation to work on a study of the GLAM with leaders from the sector in the first • Location based discovery for sector in Australia, commissioned and quarter of last year, held a two day maps and apps – eg Atlas of Living funded by the CSIRO and conducted futures workshop in May, and then in Australia by Smart Services CRC. June/July took the results for comment • Interpretive information – the use to local and international leaders in the of Wikipedia, and sites such as the GLAM Study sector who were unable to attend the Dictionary of Sydney workshop. In brief, the commission was prompted • Public contributions – eg by an interest in the opportunities and newspapers online in Trove; challenges for the Galleries, Libraries, Major Trends Museum Victoria’s Bowerbird; Atlas of Living Australia; Historypin at the Archives and Museums (GLAM) sector What began the discussions was a Australian Museum, and Historypin created by new broadband and digital consideration of several major trends generally. services. The study was based on directly affecting the sector: a series of consultations with key • Digital libraries – Google Books stakeholders and leading practitioners. • Changing consumer expectations (about Google Books), Internet The acronym GLAM was chosen • New forms of public interaction Archive, Digital Public Library of tactically “in order to focus attention enabled by digital services America, National Library of Norway on the ongoing shift in identity of these • Changes in the level and sources of • Digital Artworks – Google Art institutions as they face greater financial funding Project; the Rijks Museum; State pressure, higher expectations around • Environmental change and resource Library of NSW Digital Excellence their use of technology, diminishing depletion – affecting some collection Program; the UK Public Catalogue government support, and slow but agencies Foundation steady shifts in audience attention as • Ageing population and changing • Digital A-V collections – BBC the demographic profile of the nation demographics Creative Archive (project ended in shifts.” • Globalisation and the rise of Asia. 2006) Continues over… ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – October 2015 2 Continues from page 2 • Virtual access to physical exhibitions and collections – the CSIRO and NMA Museum Robot (and AARNet involvement) The Executive Director of the • Reinventing Physical Spaces – great examples discussed in the presentation by Santa Cruz Museum of Art & Erik Boekestijn at the ALIA conference History, Nina Simon (known in the GLAM world as the author • Shared technical and legal platforms – the BBC’s Digital Public Space project. of The Participatory Museum) There was also discussion with academics working at a number of institutions about writes very persuasively research into relevant technologies covering digitisation, discovery and new ways about the wisdom of using of providing interactive experiences. Worth mentioning in particular are Mitchell Wikipedia to draw attention Whitelaw (who spoke at NDF in 2011) and the remarkable Sarah Kenderdine (you to special content held in a can see her speak here). There is more detail on all this in the GLAM Report. collection. Nina’s blog is well worth following – it details In preparation for the workshop, participants were asked to rate nine issues her view that museums need in importance to their institution. to recognise the importance of audience interaction Issues in the sector (one of the reasons why the • Digitising collections Smithsonian has called her a “museum visionary”). You • Engaging new audiences and staying relevant can see Nina speak here. • Limited public access to collections (0.5– 4%) (Note, when she speaks of • Growth and storage of collections ‘museums’ she is including • Rights management of digitised assets art galleries.) • More diverse investment • Handling, connecting, transporting metadata • Transforming copyright to serve new needs • Facing global competition (especially via online content). These have been listed here in critical order, with the first two well ahead of the rest. It is understandably difficult to choose strategic focus, especially in these times of rapid change. The President of Museums Australia, Frank Howarth, agreed to open the workshop In acknowledging the timeliness of and write the foreword to the Report. In it he expressed his belief that the digital the study, Frank concluded with his revolution had “the capacity to turn the GLAM sector on its head, to change the own summary: sector in ways we never imagined, and to demolish the boundaries between • First, we need to be talking across galleries, libraries, archives and museums, whether we in the industry want this or the sector – as exemplified by the not.” He felt that the study was “a key step in enabling the sector to embrace digital, NZ’s National Digital Forum rather than being engulfed by it.” • Second, we need to be exploring He asked us to think first about our collections – currently managed by a range of and discussing opportunities and technologies old and new – and remarked that there is little collection management issues in the digital realm and access discussion across the broader GLAM sector. If we are to meet our • Third, we need to acknowledge that stakeholder needs, that has to change he said. the GLAM sector in Australia ranges from the very large to the very small. And what about the stakeholders and their digital expectations of us? Equity of opportunity and access “Our visitors” Frank argues, “through-the-door and virtual, have no need of the to the potential of the digital world increasingly artificial distinction between galleries, libraries, archives and museums, needs to be addressed if we are to indeed such distinctions are a hindrance for many. They are a 19thC artefact and meet the needs of Australians for make increasingly less sense to our stakeholders when what they want extends access to their cultural heritage. across the sector.” Continues over… ASA NSW Branch Newsletter – October 2015 3 Continues from page 3 Workshop questions In the workshop itself, there was discussion around all these issues and what was Victorian Collections, driven referred to as the ‘elephants in the room’.
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