Trove: search all things Australian

[kaffles]

I'm unreasonably excited about Trove (aka the National Library's 'Single Business Discovery Service') - this is the cross-search platform which allows you to do a keyword search and get results from Picture Australia, historic  newspapers, People Australia (bios and identities - under development), Libraries Australia (books held throughout

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[murasaki_1966]

We are looking forward to this. Not sure if it will be much help in the medical line at present, but we often have to do research outside the strictly clinical areas. You'll be amazed at what people need to know, or maybe not.

[curufea]

It's an aggregator of the various databases we have, so it's basically a sum of its parts. Which generally means the lowest common denominator of metadata provided by the various cataloguing areas around Australia :)

Within their areas (ie books, pictures, archives) relevance of search results is pretty good. It's across the various media it isn't so relevant currently.

But it is a most excellent start of research.

[kaffles]

I think I'll be using it more for my own interests than for work. The old newspapers are very viral - I learned what 'flash in the pan' actually meant this morning when reading an article about one of Curufea's distant rellies (while confronting a bunch of louts who'd jumped ship, his pistol didn't go off but only flashed in the pan).

[exp_err]

Still to come #1 sounds like it could be similar to qhat CSIROlink does for us.