VALA2010 Proceedings

The VALA2010 15th Biennial Conference and Exhibition was held at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Australia from 9 – 11 February 2010. The theme for this conference was Connections.Content.Conversations.

Recognising that information technology is ultimately there for the end user, the conference was opened with a short and humorous video clip of a young digital native library user called Abbey.

The following papers were presented at VALA2010. See also the VALA2010 Programme or the archived VALA2010 conference web site.

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VALA2010 Plenary 3 Breeding

VALA20120Blending evolution with revolution: a new cycle of library automation spins on.

VALA 2010 PLENARY 3: Marshall Breeding
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 08:45 – 09:55
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-3-breeding

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerMarshall Breeding

Director for Innovative Technologies and Research, Vanderbilt University Libraries, Nashville, USA
http://staffweb.library.vanderbilt.edu/breeding and http://www.librarytechnology.org

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Based on his ongoing research and analysis of the product, technology, and business trends of the library automation industry, Marshall Breeding will give his perspective on the current state of the field and what libraries can expect over the next few years. While some companies will continue a stable and evolutionary path, others articulate more dramatic changes in their strategies. Open source ILS options have already repainted the landscape, with new community source projects underway that promise additional change. The industry drives forward on two fronts, one focusing on automating internal library processes and the other providing new ways for users to discovery and access library collections. Major tech trends such as the rapid rise in smart mobile devices, the shift from local computing to platform-as-a-service cloud computing bring new mandates of change that demand new directions of innovation. These cycles all turn within an economic climate that presents great challenges in the levels of resources that libraries can bring to the table.

VALA2010 Session 7 Cathro

VALA20120Developing Trove: the policy and technical challenges

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 – Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-7-cathro

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperWarwick Cathro

Assistant Director-General, Resource Sharing and Innovation, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

Susan Collier

Project Manager, Trove Project, National Library of Australia
http://trove.nla.gov.au

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In September 2008 the National Library of Australia embarked on a project to develop a powerful new discovery service to expose the wealth of information in Australian collections. The new service, branded “Trove”, was released in December 2009 after six months as a beta service. Trove is not only replacing eight legacy services, but is improving the discovery experience for the Australian public and researchers by including more content and by allowing users to engage with the content. This paper will describe the policy and technical challenges which were faced by the Library during this project, and will outline the Library’s plans for the further development of Trove.

VALA2010 Session 7 Hagon

VALA20120Everything I know about cataloguing I learned from watching James Bond

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 7 – Innovation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-7-hagon

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPaul Hagon

Senior Web Designer, National Library of Australia
http://www.nla.gov.au

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Is it enough to rely on human interpretation for cataloguing our collections, or like James Bond, will we require high tech gadgets to get the job done? Image searches now analyse the pixel-by-pixel colour values of an image, allowing searching by colour. Consumer-grade photo management software incorporates facial recognition, allowing us to identify individuals. When researching, will we be querying the content to get the metadata or will we still be relying on querying the metadata to deliver the content? Will these technologies filter down into the way we catalogue items within our collections, or will this be a layer that enhances our traditional cataloguing methodologies or provides an additional service for our users?

VALA2010 Session 8 Hudson

VALA20120Fair use, fair dealing and Section 200AB: what overseas experience teaches us about Australian copyright law

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 8 – Intellectual Property
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-8-hudson

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperEmily Hudson

Lecturer, TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland
http://law.uq.edu.au

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In December 2009, the Australian Copyright Act was amended to introduce a new exception for cultural institutions: Section 200AB. This Section adopts a far more open-ended drafting style than the existing libraries and archives provisions, and was introduced with the intention of capturing some of the benefits of a flexible exception. However, the operation of Section 200AB has been a matter of debate, because of uncertainties in its application. The aim of this paper is to explore how Section 200AB can become a meaningful part of copyright management. The paper includes discussions of fieldwork with US institutions about fair-use practice, which may provide guidance to Australian counterparts.

VALA2010 Session 8 Dyk

VALA20120Digital preservation: the problems and issues involved in publishing private records online: lessons learnt from the web publishing of the notebooks and diaries of C.E.W. Bean

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 8 – Intellectual Property
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-8-dyk

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperRobyn Van Dyk

Senior Curator Published and Digitised Records, Australian War Memorial
http://www.awm.gov.au

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In 2003, the Australian War Memorial commenced a project to digitise the notebooks and diaries of C.E.W. Bean for preservation and with the intent to make the images publicly available via the website. The digitisation of the records was completed in 2004, but the project ground to a halt when the copyright of this material was examined more closely and the records were found be a complex mixture of copyright rather than Commonwealth copyright. For the Memorial, this project represents our first venture into publishing a large complex collection of private records online and also our pilot for publishing orphan works using s200AB of the Copyright Act.

VALA2010 Session 9 Gregory

VALA20120It’s reference, Jim, but not as we know it: using the Vocera communications system to support mobile customer service at the State Library of Victoria

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 9 – Automation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-9-gregory

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperPatrick Gregory

Information Services Manager, State Library of Victoria
http://www.slv.vic.gov.au

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In January 2009 the State Library of Victoria implemented a new model for delivering reference and customer services, based on the principles of mobility, communication and teamwork. To support this new model, it became the first library in Australia to implement the Vocera wireless communications system. This paper outlines the impetus for change, describes the use of the Vocera system and provides an analysis of the pros and cons of this implementation.

VALA2010 Session 9 Hunter

VALA20120The Aus-e-Lit project: advanced e research services for scholars of Australian literature

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 9 – Automation
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-9-hunter

VALA Peer Reviewed PaperJane Hunter

eResearch Centre, School of ITEE, University of Queensland
http://itee.uq.edu.au

Anna Gerber

eResearch Centre, School of ITEE, University of Queensland
http://itee.uq.edu.au

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For the past eighteen months, the eResearch Lab at the University of Queensland has been working with the Australian Literature community on the Aus-e-Lit project. Aus-e-Lit is a cross-disciplinary collaboration that is developing eResearch tools for scholars of Australian literature who are members of the AustLit consortium. The AustLit Web portal provides access to a comprehensive bibliographic and full-text collection that is considered the peak resource for scholars of Australian literary heritage. The portal also provides a mechanism for the dissemination and deployment of the eResearch services that we have developed and that are described in this paper. These include: text processing services, federated search services, annotation services, compound object authoring tools and advanced visualisation services.

VALA2010 Session 10 Bonnington

VALA20120The changing landscape of research: tools and methods for 21st century discovery

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 13:45 – 14:15
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-bonnington

VALA2010 Invited PaperPaul Bonnington

Director, e-Research Centre, Monash University
http://www.monash.edu.au/eresearch/index.html

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The US National Science Foundation noted in recent reports on 21st Century Discovery and Virtual Research Organisations that increasingly researchers (from all domains) are working in virtual teams across institutions. Furthermore, they are creating, compiling, accessing, analysing, linking and storing terabytes of digital research data through joint experimentation, observation and simulation. They note that the dynamic linking of data generated through this joint observation and simulation is enabling the development of new research methods that adapt intelligently to evolving conditions to reveal new understanding. In this talk, we highlight this phenomenon in the Australian context, and demonstrate how technologists, information specialists and domain specialists can work together in partnership to create local services and infrastructure to support 21st century discovery.

VALA2010 Session 10 Tennant

VALA20120Libraries at the network level: APIs, linked data, and cloud computing

VALA 2010 CONCURRENT SESSION 10 – Looking Forward
Wednesday 10 February 2010 14:20 – 14:50
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-session-10-tennant

VALA2010 Invited PaperRoy Tennant

Senior Program Officer, OCLC, USA
http://www.oclc.org

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Large Internet hubs like Google and Amazon have long used server farms and machine-to-machine services to reach massive scale and computational flexibility. Libraries are now beginning to take advantage of these same technologies by moving services to the “cloud”, where robust and secure infrastructure services can reduce the total cost of ownership of library systems. Libraries are also leveraging the network to expose library data and services to support powerful new ways to interact with library data to provide new kinds of services. This session will tell (and show) you how.

VALA2010 Plenary 4 Orlic

VALA20120The Louvre – DNP Museum Lab, a Multimedia Mediation Laboratory

VALA 2010 PLENARY 4: Stephanie Orlic
Wednesday 10 February 2010, 14:55 – 16:05
Persistent URL: http://www.vala.org.au/vala2010-proceedings/vala2010-plenary-4-orlic

VALA2010 Keynote SpeakerStephanie Orlic

Chef de projet multimédia – Museum Lab, Service Multimédia, Direction de la production culturelle, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
http://www.louvre.fr and http://www.museumlab.jp/english

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Based in Tokyo, the Louvre – DNP Museum Lab is an experimental project exploring new approaches to artworks in the Musée du Louvre’s collections, based on Dai Nippon Printing’s expertise in information technology and state-of-the-art digital imaging, and public outreach know-how developed at the Louvre. The project aims at determining how new technology can benefit institutions like the Musée du Louvre by implementing solutions, improving the public’s understanding of the artworks and promoting access to art in general.