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In 1851 George French Angas went from Sydney to the NSW gold diggings via the Blue Mountains. This map shows his sketches along the way and corrects the dating on these drawings in #NationalLibraryAU collection. (This map was a side activity in the #S_T_Gill project.) #historyAU #historyNSW #historicalMapping

Online map: https://umap.openstreetmap.fr/en/map/angas-1851-nsw-diggings_802983

Trouble again at #NationalLibraryAU / #TroveAU for display of NLA's images, although newspapers are fine.
HTTP504 Unable to load TileSource. AESST 13:30

EDIT: Working again at 14:30.

Trouble at #NationalLibraryAU / #TroveAU for display of NLA's images, although newspapers are fine.

EDIT 13:30 - back up again!

https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/online_availability_check.htm

Early Photography in Colonial Australia

An interesting blend that I wasn't quite expecting, with reflection on photography, First Nations people, the colonial project and modern artistic use of historical photographic methods. James Tylor had some fascinating comments about #Kaurna and other #SouthAustralia place names. Panel at #NationalLibraryAU last week. #historyOfPhotography

Watch, 68 minutes via https://www.library.gov.au/whats-on/events/early-photography-colonial-australia

Head of the #NationalLibraryAU Dr M-L Ayres is to retire in April 2026 - about a year before her second 5-year term expires. #ausGLAM

NLA media (4 August): https://www.library.gov.au/news-media/dr-ayres-to-retire-as-director-general

Australian National and State Libraries have been quitting / archiving Twitter/X recently. #ausGLAM

#StateLibraryNSW - 5 May
#TroveAU - 10 July
#NationalLibraryAU - 10 July
NSLA National & State Libraries Australasia - 30 July
VIC - last tweeted in February
WA - archive date not specified

QLD - still active
#StateLibrarySA - still active

UPDATE: this is working again now.

ORIGINAL: #NationalLibraryAU catalogue links aren't working (including onward links from #TroveAU). e.g. https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/461228 and click View Online - page not found. Haven't seen an NLA outage notice.

@wragge Now that they also make *ongoing* Trove Collaborative Services payments to #NationalLibraryAU how well does their business case still stack up?

At the start the Australian newspapers project made good sense.

Artworks not so ubiquitous with art galleries not broadly participating.

I used to think #TroveAU lists would be good integrators but non-persistent links and constant tinkering has left them weak.

@wragge @histodons This is #NationalLibraryAU petty mindedness scoring reputation management own goal. #TroveAU

@wragge “The NLA was contacted for comment.”

I imagine the advice to NLA, as after the launch of Trove 2020, will be to stay quiet and wait for the controversy to blow over.

#NationalLibraryAU #TroveAU

Sounds like #NationalLibraryAU planned a controlled burn and - now that it’s a bushfire coming back at them - they want to put it out. #TroveAU undertaking reputation management.

https://hcommons.social/@wragge/114068162650994733

NLA cancelling @wragge’s #Trove API key is mean and stupid. This is NLA’s “not invented here” chip on their shoulder.

Over many years I’ve been a big fan of Trove and then (maybe?) its regular critic. Not being part of the Trove-GLAM industry meant I had more freedom to criticise. Not because I enjoy criticising but because after Tim left it cared more about its reputation than about its users. Spin won out over diligence. Quantity over quality.

I wrote about #FundTrove presented as grassroots but really being a masked industry campaign. Recently I mentioned Trove budget’s double-dipping.

But people can’t keep “loving” Trove that takes them for granted. They can’t care forever.

See also #TroveAU #NationalLibraryAU and elsewhere and elsewhen at @coombeidau

Eukodko - #MurrayRiver crayfish - being caught by #Aboriginal women in floodwaters. Painted c. 1844 by #S_T_Gill from George Hamilton's sketch. #SouthAustralia

(See also today's article in The Conversation.) #StateLibraryNSW image only linking indirectly at present but you can see same in #NationalLibraryAU https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-134369231/view

Read more in my 2021 article: https://coombe.id.au/S_T_Gill/S_T_Gill,_E_J_Eyre,_Symmetry_1844.htm#45

@wragge How frustrating! One wonders if Trove even has in-house ability to update its own API? But this is SNAFU at NLA and has been for some years. (I know this is not news to you of course.) I think millions in funding doesn’t fix Trove in the absence of cultural change at NLA. NLA needs to stop seeing Trove as their love machine and start seeing themselves as a diligent service provider to the Australian public.

P.S. The latest annual report shows NLA double dipped by taking extra Commonwealth funding while hanging onto Trove Collaborative Services income. #fundTrove #TroveAU #NationalLibraryAU