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'Trove was never one thing. When version 1.0 of Trove was released by the National Library of Australia in November 2009, it brought together a range of existing discovery services. Some of these had their own long histories. Libraries Australia, for example, contributed millions of catalogue and holdings records from libraries around the country to Trove. But Libraries Australia itself was only the latest incarnation of the Australian Bibliographic Network, established in the early 1980s. Picture Australia was one of a series of specialised portals absorbed into Trove. Launched in September 2000, Picture Australia was an early example of how metadata could be aggregated from multiple collections to provide a single search interface. Similarly, Australian Research Online built on collaboration between universities, research agencies, and the National Library to enable users to search across research repositories and collections of digital theses. And then there was Pandora, established in 1996 as one of the earliest efforts to archive the web itself. Pandora was uncomfortably bolted on to Trove, as the National Library sought to provide users with a single point of discovery for Australia’s cultural collections.' (Publication abstract)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 18 no. 4 2021 23761646 2021 periodical issue

    'On 1 September 2021, Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough’s work ‘Breathing Space’ was unveiled in Hobart. This artwork is part of the City of Hobart’s ‘Crowther Reinterpretation Project’, for which four artists have been invited to create works responding to the statue of William Crowther. The project aims to ‘acknowledge, question, provoke discussion or increase awareness’ about Crowther, especially his treatment of the body of well-known Aboriginal leader William Lanne after his death in the 1860s. In Gough’s work, the statue of Crowther has been removed from public view, boxed up in a black timber crate. Visitors can scan a QR code nearby and be directed to a webpage that provides a printable amended wording for the plinth. Gough told ABC Hobart that she had avoided walking past the statue for 20 years, but now the statue was covered, ‘I can sit here, knowing he's not looking down on us…when he was crated you could feel Hobart breathe. It was amazing.' (Editorial introduction)

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