SLV Digital Image Pool

State Library Victoria has launched the first stage of their new digital object management system (DOMS). In this first phase, more than 170,000 non-culturally sensitive, out-of-copyright images in their digital image pool will have new viewers, which will offer:
• a fresh and more intuitive user interface
• a better experience on mobile devices
• advanced zooming and panning
• persistent URLs for easier sharing
• support for IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework), to encourage creative re-use of images.
The new digital image pool will also include maps and architectural drawings. To promote sharing and re-use, it will be limited to include only images that are not culturally sensitive, and are out of copyright.
The Digital Image Pool is great for quick searches for out-of-copyright images that you can re-use. Just remember, to search *all* of the Library's digitised images, and descriptions for your research needs. Head to the SLV catalogue.

Eltham Pioneers Collection

Photo: SEPP_0049 Loading fruit for market, Kinglake (Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph collection)

Eltham District Historical Society kicks off its 2015 program of events on Wednesday 11 February highlighting photos from the Shire of Eltham Pioneers Photograph collection.  This collection of over 400 photos in total includes a large geographic area extending from Kinglake to Lower Plenty.

It is hoped that interested audience members will share their own memories, recollections and further insight about the photos that will be shown.  All welcome.

EDHS meets at the Eltham Senior Citizen’s Centre, Library Place, Eltham.  Wednesday 11 February at 7.30 pm.

Flickr

Flickr is one of the leading photo sharing and organising websites.  Once uploaded, via a collaborative process, people can comment and tag your photos. 

last week Flickr announced a free terabyte of space.  Just how big is a terabyte?  Flickr describe it as “you could take a photo every hour for forty years without filling one”.

In addition Flickr is now allowing video upload.

Libraries and local history organisationss are already curating their collections online and I predict that these current developments will certainly see more and more digitised content becoming available online via Flickr and other avenues.

View Yarra Plenty Local History on Flickr

Pictures, Photos, Objects in Trove

Pictures, Photos, Objects in Trove

Search and access over 3.5 million digitized photographs, artworks and artifacts that cover all aspects of Australiana. These images are drawn from cultural heritage collections held within libraries, museums, archives and galleries from across Australia and overseas, as well as photos contributed by individuals. Images portray people, places, events, paintings, drawings, prints, posters, sculpture, costumes, and weapons.

Picture Australia which was originally launched in September 2000, has been absorbed into Trove. Historical and contemporary images are also sourced from Flickr using the Trove: Australia in Pictures Group.

Use this website to:

• Search and view people and places in your family history
• Search and view images of Australia's military history
• Search and view artworks by and about Australian artists
• Search and view images about your town
• Search and view old cartoons

Historical Images

There are over 1, 300 photos available to view via our website.

Photos can be accessed by using the keyword “images” in the search box or by choosing the option “online images” as the format in advanced search. The individual image will load in a separate window, when the link is clicked.

Each image can be searched by title and subject as well as place subfield “picture” eg. Ivanhoe picture

For example if someone is looking for information on Montsalvat, the search will result in images and books.

I encourage users to tag and add comments as they would for other items including books in our catalogue.

These images are comprised from a number of collections.

We have digitised collections only from the Heidelberg Historical Society and the Nillumbik Historical Society, that is we do not hold the hard copies.

Hard copy collections are held at Diamond Valley, Eltham and Mill Park.

Diamond Valley

Some 10 albums were recently rehoused and digitised thanks to grant funding received in 2009. The photos focus on the former Shire of Diamond Valley with many photographs of Diamond Creek and Greensborough in the early 1980s.

Eltham

Eltham’s large collection of black and white historical photos were collected prior to the publication of “Pioneers & Painters” by the former Shire of Eltham. Not all of these have been digitised, nor are they all on the catalogue. There is a physical listing with subject list which can be consulted in the library.

Mill Park

The Whittlesea Historical Society initially donated a number of photographs arranged in albums by location when the local history collection was first set up at Lalor Library.

Known as the Bicentennial collection, the folders cover

Donnybrook/Kal Kallo, Epping, Kinglake/Glenvale/Humevale, Lalor, Mernda, Mill Park/Janefield / Bundoora, South Morang, Strathewen / Arthur’s Creek, Thomastown, Whittlesea (township), Wollert, Yan Yean.

Further images were collected for a project in 2001 celebrating the Centenary of Federation.

Other photos are gradually being added to the collections.