Rose Holley Innovative Ideas Forum 2009: National Library of Australia

I have been tardy in writing this post! Whilst getting ready to write I read Katie’s delightful write up of the Forum. I thought her post exemplified the energy the Forum created and drew upon. Just as I was writing this I received an #iif2009 tweet about the availability of the podcasts from the day.
Rose Holley, Manager of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program, National Library of Australia, presented the final talk of the morning at the Innovative Ideas Forum 2009. Her talk was entitled “Enhancement and Enrichment of Digital Content by user communities: The Australian Newspapers experience”
Katie and the podcasts will help me as I left the Forum after Rose Holley’s talk. I did follow up her talk in her Many Hands Make Light Work: Public Collaborative OCR Text Correction in Australian Historic Newspapers report available here.
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What I enjoyed about Rose’s presentation was her careful discussion and acknowledgement of the work of a small team (6 members) at the NLA responsible for delivering a remarkable project. My principal take home message from Rose’s talk was the power of community involvement in the enhancement process. A secondary one was her delightful discussion of the tag fog potential of tag clouds.
I thought Rose did an outstanding job at the end of a morning of illustrious speakers. Her humour and her profound knowledge made the time fly by. Her report provides all the detail included in her presentation and I recommend it to you.
I left the Forum highly impresed by the ideas shared and the possibilities that arise from social networks. I will follow up the iif2009 links on Slideshare too.

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