Community-created Content
This project encourages community members to contribute to library collections by creating films, writing, stories, pictures and other web content that draw upon library resources as well as their own.
Common tools available across libraries will allow community members to contribute their knowledge and expertise to library material and share it with others, or to create mash-ups of online content. Examples can be seen in the 2011 Libraryhack competition.
Achievements
- Project report under preparation for NSLA, recommending future work that uses community created content and open linked data
- Preliminary work undertaken on business case for Libraryhack 2012/13.
- Community-created Content research report by Paul Reynolds, 2009.
- Libraryhack competition run across all NSLA libraries and hosted by State Library of Queensland, attracting 117 entries in 2011.
- Participation in NeCTAR bid, alongside a selection of universities and libraries nationwide, for funding to develop virtual laboratories and online tools for researchers in the arts and humanities.
Working group members
- Anna Raunik, State Library of Queensland (project manager)
- Margaret Warren, State Library of Queensland
- Mark Corbould, National Library of Australia
- Paul Hagon, National Library of Australia
- Carmel Denholm, State Library of Tasmania
- Greg Gerrand, State Library of Victoria
- Richard Hayward, State Library of Victoria
- Marilyn Hawthorne, Northern Territory Library
- Sarah McQuade, State Library of Western Australia
- Molly Tebo, State Library of Western Australia
- Andrew Piper, State Library of South Australia
- Louise Prichard, State Library of New South Wales
- Vanessa Bond, State Library of New South Wales
- Fiona Fieldsend, National Library of New Zealand
- Sarah Steed, Libraries ACT
Project updates
GovHack 2013 to include Trove prize
NSLA will offer a prize in this year's GovHack competition for the use of Trove data.
SLSA unleashes data for state competition
The State Library of South Australia is a key participant in Unleashed, the South Australian Government's local open data competition.
Digitised sheet music is new app’s forte
The Forte iPad app provides access to over 13,000 items from the National Library of Australia's collection of digitised sheet music.
Publications
Libraryhack: end project report
Final report and attachments. (October 2011)
Project scope: Community-created Content
The Community-created Content project encourages community members to contribute to their libraries' collections by creating content using their resources and ours. (2010)
Project brief: Libraryhack
July 2010