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Contributing to Trove
Sharing your records with Trove is a great way to increase the discoverability of your collection and enhance its potential as an educational resource. Trove - https://trove.nla.gov.au/ - is maintained by the National Library of Australia and brings ...
Significance in a nutshell
Significance is a way of investigating and communicating the meaning and importance of individual collection items and entire collections. An item’s significance is made up of its history, uses, and the aesthetic, scientific social and spiritual ...
Making your collection accessible
You may already take measures to ensure that your physical collection is accessible to those with vision impairment or other disabilities, but digital accessibility is just as important. We want to ensure that our collections can be enjoyed by ...
Online collections copyright traffic light
When digitising collections and making those digital copies available to the public, it is important to respect the rights of creators and abide by the conditions of the Copyright Act 1968. BEFORE YOU BEGIN This information sheet provides general ...
Cataloguing and preserving born-digital items
Born-digital content is becoming increasingly common in galleries, libraries, archives and museums. Put simply, born-digital items are digital works which are not copies of analogue documents. Whilst digitised files are digital copies of physical ...
Assessing risk in your collection
A risk assessment is a process which helps place an organisation in a better position to care for and safeguard collection material. Conducting a risk assessment can help you to: Identify potential threats to your collection and the possible damage ...