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{{Short description|Australian online library database aggregator}}
{{About|the Australian online service|other uses of the word "trove"|Trove (disambiguation)}}
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| commercial = no
| type = Australian library database aggregator
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| owner = [[National Library of Australia]]
| launch_date = {{start date and age|2009}}
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'''Trove''' is an Australian online library database owned by the [[National Library of Australia]] in which it holds partnerships with source providers [[National and State Libraries Australia]], an aggregator and service which includes [[full-text database|full text documents]], [[digital image]]s, [[Library catalog|bibliographic and holdings data]] of items which are not available digitally, and a free [[faceted search|faceted-search]] engine as a discovery tool.
==Content==
The database includes [[archives]], images, newspapers, official documents, [[web archiving|archived websites]], [[manuscripts]] and other types of data. it is one of the most well-respected and accessed [[GLAM (industry sector)|GLAM]] services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users.
Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, [[archives]], repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. It allows searching of [[library catalogue|catalogue entries]] of books in Australian libraries (some fully available online), academic and other journals, full-text searching of digitised archived newspapers, [[government gazette]]s and archived websites. It provides access to [[digitization|digitised]] images, maps, aggregated information about people and organisations, archived diaries and letters, and all [[born-digital]] content which has been deposited via [[National edeposit]] (NED). Searchable content also includes music, sound and [[video]]s, and transcripts of radio programs. With the exception of the digitised newspapers, none of the contents is hosted by Trove itself, which indexes the content of its partners' collection [[metadata]], formats and manages it, and displays the aggregated information in a relevance-ranked search result.
In the wake of government funding cuts since 2015, the National Library and other organisations have been struggling to keep up with ensuring that content on Trove is kept flowing through and up to date.
==History==
Trove's origins can be seen in the development of earlier services such as the [[Australian Bibliographic Network]] (ABN),<ref>{{Citation | author1=National Library of Australia | author2=Australian Bibliographic Network | title=Draft proposal for the development of an Australian Bibliographic Network | date=1981 | publisher=National Library of Australia | isbn=978-0-642-99217-8 }}</ref> a shared cataloguing service launched in 1981.
The "Single Business Discovery Project" was launched in August 2008.<ref name="Cathro">{{cite web|last1=Cathro|first1=Warwick|title=Single Business Discovery Project|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/content/single-business-discovery-project|website=National Library of Australia|access-date=5 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141209070732/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/single-business-discovery-project|archive-date=9 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>  The intention was to create a single point of entry for the public to the various online discovery services developed by the library between 1997 and 2008, including:<ref name="Cathro" /><ref name="Ayres">{{cite journal |last1=Ayres |first1=Marie-Louise |author-link1=Marie-Louise Ayres |title=Singing for their supper: Trove, Australian newspapers, and the crowd |journal=[[IFLA World Library and Information Congress]] |date=July 31, 2013 |url=http://library.ifla.org/245/1/153-ayres-en.pdf |access-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123111430/http://library.ifla.org/245/1/153-ayres-en.pdf |archive-date=23 November 2015}}</ref><ref name=briefhist>{{cite web | title=Trove – A Brief History: Trove is now 5 years old. Here's how we came to be | first=Catriona | last=Bryce | website=National Library of Australia | date=5 November 2014 | url=https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/trove/2014/11/05/trove-a-brief-history | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=15 May 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200515055408/https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/trove/2014/11/05/trove-a-brief-history | url-status=dead }}</ref>
* [[PANDORA archive]] (1996)
*the Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts (RAAM, launched 1997)
* PictureAustralia (2000)<ref>{{Citation | author1=Goldrick, Chrissie | title=PictureAustralia. | journal=Australian Geographic | date=2006-10-01 | publisher=Athena Information Solutions Pvt. Ltd | issue=84 | pages=19 | issn=0816-1658 | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/76614966?q&versionId=89832711 | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=27 June 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230627233430/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/76614966?q&versionId=89832711 | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://creativecommons.org.au/materials/AATC/AATC-13-click-and-flick.pdf|title=Asia and the Commons: NLA PictureAustralia Click & Flick|access-date=10 May 2020|archive-date=22 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220322103706/https://creativecommons.org.au/materials/AATC/AATC-13-click-and-flick.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[Libraries Australia]] (the service that developed out of the ABN in 2006);
* Australia Dancing, a joint venture with [[Ausdance]] (2003)
* [[Music Australia (online resource)|Music Australia]] (2005)
* ARROW Discovery Service (first Australian Research Repositories Online, then Australian Research Online, launched 2005)
* People Australia (late 2006)
* Australian Newspapers Beta service (July 2008)
The service developed by the project was called '''Single Business Discovery Service''', and also briefly known by the staff as '''Girt'''. The name Trove was suggested by a staff member, with the associations of a [[treasure trove]] and the [[French language|French]] verb ''trouver'' (to find or discover).<ref name=briefhist/>
The key features of the service were designed to create a [[faceted search]] system specifically for Australian content. Tight integration with the provider databases has allowed "Find and Get" functions (e.g. viewing digitally, borrowing, buying, copying). Important extra features include the provision of a "check copyright" tool and [[persistent identifiers]] (which enables stable URLs).<ref name="Holley1" />
The first version of Trove was released to the public in late 2009.<ref name="Holley1" />
===Implementation===
The National Library of Australia combined eight different online discovery tools that had been developed over a period of twelve years into a new single discovery interface that was released as a prototype in May 2009 for public comment before launching in November 2009 as Trove.<ref name=Weight>{{cite journal |url=https://search.lib.uts.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay/alma991000808749705671/61UTS_INST:61UTS |title=Trove – One Search, a Wealth of Information |journal=Incite |publisher=National Library of Australia |date=2009 |access-date=4 June 2022 |archive-date=28 September 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220928135419/https://search.lib.uts.edu.au/discovery/fulldisplay/alma991000808749705671/61UTS_INST:61UTS |url-status=live }}</ref> It is continually updated to expand its reach.<ref name="Thorpe">{{cite news|last1=Thorpe|first1=Clarissa|title=National Library of Australia's Trove website celebrates five years of uncovering the past|url=http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-08/trove-website-celebrates-fifth-birthday/5876936|access-date=5 September 2015|work=ABC News|date=8 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123063012/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-08/trove-website-celebrates-fifth-birthday/5876936|archive-date=23 November 2015|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="AyresML">{{cite web|last1=Ayres|first1=Marie-Louise|title=Digging deep in Trove: Success, challenge and uncertainty|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/digging-deep-in-trove-success-challenge-and-uncertainty|publisher=National Library of Australia|date=4 September 2012|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205113116/http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/digging-deep-in-trove-success-challenge-and-uncertainty|archive-date=5 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> With the notable exception of the newspaper "zone", none of the material that appears in Trove search results is hosted by Trove itself. Instead, it indexes the content of its content partners' collection metadata and displays the aggregated information in a relevance-ranked search result.<ref>{{Citation | author1=Warwick Cathro | author2=Susan Collier | title=Developing Trove: the policy and technical challenges | date=2010-06-08 | publisher=National Library of Australia | url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38965548 | access-date=17 December 2014 | archive-date=27 November 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181127003021/https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/38965548 | url-status=live }}</ref>
The service is built using a variety of [[Open-source software|open source]] software.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/344638/australian_national_library_uses_open_source_treasure_trove/|title = Australian National Library uses open source for treasure Trove|date = 28 April 2010|access-date = 7 December 2014|website = ComputerWorld|last = Clarke|first = Trevor|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141209130810/http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/344638/australian_national_library_uses_open_source_treasure_trove/|archive-date = 9 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://apcmag.com/trove-mapping-australias-culture-where-google-fears-to-tread.htm|title = Trove: mapping Australia's culture where Google fears to tread|date = 29 April 2010|access-date = 7 December 2014|website = [[APC (magazine)|APC]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141209131317/http://apcmag.com/trove-mapping-australias-culture-where-google-fears-to-tread.htm|archive-date = 9 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref> Trove provides a free, public [[Application Programming Interface]] (API).<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.nsla.org.au/news/trove-api-lets-developers-delve-deeper|title = Trove API lets developers delve deeper|date = 19 April 2012|access-date = 16 December 2014|website = [[National State Libraries Australasia]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141217004803/http://www.nsla.org.au/news/trove-api-lets-developers-delve-deeper|archive-date = 17 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref> This allows developers to search across the records for books, images, maps, video, archives, music, sound, journal articles, newspaper articles and lists and to retrieve the associated metadata using XML and [[JSON]] encoding.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/an-introduction-to-the-trove-api/|title = An Introduction to the Trove API|date = 11 March 2014|access-date = 16 December 2014|last = perkinsy|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141208145052/http://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/an-introduction-to-the-trove-api/|archive-date = 8 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove|title = Building with Trove|access-date = 16 December 2014|website = Trove Help|publisher = National Library of Australia|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141217004656/http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove|archive-date = 17 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref> The full text of digitised newspaper articles is also available.<ref>{{cite web|title=Building with Trove|url=http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217004656/http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove|archive-date=17 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
Several [[citation styles]] are automatically produced by the software, giving a stable URL to the edition, page or article-level for any newspaper.  [[Wikipedia]] was closely integrated from the beginning of the project, making Trove the first [[GLAM (industry sector)|GLAM]] website in the world to integrate the Wikipedia API into its product.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Holley|first1=Rose|title=Perspectives on National Library of Australia Developments Part 1 Rose Holley – Presentation slides from GLAM-Wiki conference, Canberra|url=http://www.slideshare.net/RHmarvellous/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley|website=Slideshare|access-date=2 December 2014|date=6 August 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141219071235/http://www.slideshare.net/RHmarvellous/perspectives-on-national-library-of-australia-developments-part-1-rose-holley|archive-date=19 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
===2010s===
Trove has continued to evolve and take on new services and collections.
In 2012, Music Australia was integrated with Trove, and ceased to exist as a separate entity.<ref>{{cite web| url= http://www.musicaustralia.org/|title=Music Australia - Australia's Music: Online, in Time|website=Music Australia| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120606052310/http://www.musicaustralia.org/| archive-date=6 June 2012}}</ref>
In 2016, in collaboration with the [[State Library of New South Wales]], Trove launched the [[Government Gazette]]s zone, and continues to collect the official gazettes of all levels of government ([[Australian Government|Commonwealth]] and [[States and territories of Australia|State and Territory]]) where possible.<ref>{{cite web | title=About digitised newspapers and gazettes | website=Trove help centre | url=https://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/digitised-newspapers/background | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=17 June 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617173723/https://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/digitised-newspapers/background | url-status=dead }}</ref>
In March 2019 PANDORA became part of the larger [[Australian Web Archive]], which comprises the PANDORA archive, the Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) and the National Library's ".au" [[web domain|domain]] collections, using a single interface in Trove which is publicly available.<ref>{{cite web | title=Preserving and Accessing Networked DOcumentary Resources of Australia | website=Pandora Archive | date=May 1999 | url=https://pandora.nla.gov.au/ | access-date=30 April 2020 | archive-date=12 October 2009 | archive-url=http://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20091012002538/http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/23790/20091005-0000/issue1018.pdf | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Australian web archive | website=Trove | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/website?q= | access-date=30 April 2020 | archive-date=1 May 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200501100121/https://trove.nla.gov.au/website?q= | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Archived websites | website=National Library of Australia | date=23 March 2020 | url=https://www.nla.gov.au/what-we-collect/archived-websites | access-date=30 April 2020 | archive-date=22 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200422011045/https://www.nla.gov.au/what-we-collect/archived-websites | url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=The Australian Government Web Archive | website=National Library of Australia | date=11 February 2015 | first=Paul | last=Koerbin | url=https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/web-archiving/2015/02/11/the-australian-government-web-archive | access-date=30 April 2020 | archive-date=30 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200430104945/https://www.nla.gov.au/stories/blog/web-archiving/2015/02/11/the-australian-government-web-archive | url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Content and services (extended)==
===Description===
Trove has grown beyond its original aims, and has become "a community, a set of services, an aggregation of [[metadata]], and a growing repository of full text digital resources" and "a platform on which new knowledge is being built". It is now a collaboration between the National Library, Australia's [[states and territories of Australia|State and Territory]] libraries and hundreds of other cultural and research institutions around Australia.<ref name=about/>
It is an Australian online [[library]] database aggregator; a free faceted-search engine hosted by the National Library of Australia,<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Baich|first1=Tina|title=The global research landscape: resources for locating international publications|journal=College & Research Libraries News|date=May 2013|volume=74|issue=5|pages=243–248|doi=10.5860/crln.74.5.8945|url=http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/5/243.short|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624165823/http://crln.acrl.org/content/74/5/243.short|archive-date=24 June 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all|doi-access=free|hdl=1805/3297|hdl-access=free}}</ref> in partnership with content providers, including members of the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA).<ref name="Holley1">{{cite web|last1=Holley|first1=Rose|title=Trove: Innovation in Access to Information in Australia|url=http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/holley|publisher=Ariadne|access-date=3 December 2014|date=29 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141113172338/http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue64/holley|archive-date=13 November 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
===Content and delivery===
Trove "brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small" in order to help users find and use resources relating to Australia and therefore the content is Australian-focused.<ref name=about>{{Cite web|url = https://trove.nla.gov.au/general/about|title = About Trove|access-date = 8 May 2020|website = Trove|publisher = National Library of Australia|archive-date = 17 May 2020|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200517065917/https://trove.nla.gov.au/general/about|url-status = live}}</ref> Much of the material may be difficult to retrieve with other search tools, for example in cases where it is part of the [[Deep Web (search indexing)|deep web]], including records held in collection databases,<ref name="Holley1" /> or in projects such as the [[PANDORA Archive|PANDORA web archive]], Australian Research Online, Australian National Bibliographic Database and others mentioned above.<ref name="Ayres" />
Since 2019, Trove has included access to all [[electronic document]]s deposited by Australian publishers under the [[legal deposit]] provisions of the ''[[Copyright Act 1968]]'', as amended in 2017 to included such publications.<ref name=what>{{cite web | title=What is legal deposit? | website=National Library of Australia | date=17 February 2016 | url=https://www.nla.gov.au/legal-deposit/what-is-legal-deposit | access-date=6 May 2020 | archive-date=5 March 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190305174816/https://www.nla.gov.au/legal-deposit/what-is-legal-deposit | url-status=dead }}</ref> These resources are identifiable by a display in the top right-hand corner in both the ebook and pdf viewers, saying "National edeposit collection". Many of these are readable and some are [[download]]able, depending on the access conditions.<ref name=nedhelp>{{cite web | title=Legal Deposit and Trove | website=Trove: Help centre | url=https://help.nla.gov.au/trove/getting-using-resources/legal-deposit-and-trove | access-date=6 May 2020 | archive-date=7 March 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200307232243/https://help.nla.gov.au/trove/getting-using-resources/legal-deposit-and-trove | url-status=dead }}</ref>
The site's content is split into "zones" designating different forms of content which can be searched all together, or separately.<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/finding-things|title = Using Trove – Finding things|access-date = 16 December 2014|website = Trove|publisher = National Library of Australia|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141224090647/http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/finding-things|archive-date = 24 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref>
====Books====
The book zone allows searching of the collective catalogues of institutions findable in [[Libraries Australia]] using the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD). It provides access to books, [[audio book]]s, [[e-book]]s, [[theses]], [[conference proceeding]]s and [[pamphlet]]s listed in ANBD, which is a [[union catalogue]] of items held in Australian libraries and a national bibliographic database of resources including Australian online publications.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rajapatirana|first1=Bemal|last2=Missingham|first2=Roxanne|title=The Australian National Bibliographic Database and the Functional Requirements for the Bibliographic Database (FRBR)|journal=The Australian Library Journal|date=February 2005|volume=54|issue=1|pages=31–42|doi=10.1080/00049670.2005.10721711|s2cid=61124103|doi-access=free}}</ref>  Bibliographic records from the ANBD are also uploaded into the [[WorldCat]] global union catalogue.<ref>{{cite web|title=OCLC Agreement|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/about/oclc-agreement/|website=Libraries Australia|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=6 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210062758/http://www.nla.gov.au/librariesaustralia/about/oclc-agreement/|archive-date=10 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The results can be filtered by format if searching for [[braille]], audio books, theses or conference proceedings and also by decade and language of publication.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Rathi|first1=Dinesh|last2=Shiri|first2=Ali|last3=Lucky|first3=Shannon|title=Evolving and Emerging Trends in Digital Libraries User Interfaces |journal=Proceedings of the Annual Conference of CAIS |date=2013|doi=10.29173/cais660|url=http://www.cais-acsi.ca/ojs/index.php/cais/article/view/653|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217000757/http://www.cais-acsi.ca/ojs/index.php/cais/article/view/653|archive-date=17 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> A filter for Australian content is also provided.<ref name=Weight/><ref>{{Cite web|url = http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/finding-things/refining-your-results|title = Refining your results|access-date = 16 December 2014|website = Trove help|publisher = National Library of Australia|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141217012218/http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/using-trove/finding-things/refining-your-results|archive-date = 17 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref>
==== Newspapers ====
[[File:The Leader 1915.pdf|thumbnail|right|Front page of ''[[The Leader (Orange, NSW)|The Leader]]'' ([[Orange, New South Wales]]) 31 July 1915, the 10 millionth newspaper page to be made available through Trove.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nla.gov.au/behind-the-scenes/2013/06/21/10-million-newspaper-pages-in-trove|title = 10 Million newspaper pages in Trove |date = 21 June 2013 |access-date = 5 December 2014 |website = Trove Blog|publisher = National Library of Australia |last = Wyatt |first = Liam |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141209232029/http://www.nla.gov.au/behind-the-scenes/2013/06/21/10-million-newspaper-pages-in-trove |archive-date = 9 December 2014 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref>]]
[[File:Front cover of the Dawn issue 1.jpg|thumb|Front cover of [[The Dawn (feminist magazine)|''The Dawn'']]  Issue 1, 15 May 1888. The first feminist magazine in Australia.]]
Trove allows text-searching of digitised historic newspapers, with the Newspapers zone replacing the previous "Australian Newspapers" website.{{citation needed|date=May 2020}} It provides text-searchable access to over 700 historic Australian newspapers from each State and Territory.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about |title = About Digitised Newspapers and more |access-date = 22 May 2017 |website = Trove |publisher = National Library of Australia |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160229052042/http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about |archive-date = 29 February 2016 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref> By 2014, over 13.5 million digitised newspaper pages had been made available through Trove as part of the Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan),<ref name="ANDP" /> a "collaborative program to collect and preserve every newspaper published in Australia, guaranteeing public access" to these important historical records.<ref>[http://www.nsla.org.au/projects/anplan Australian Newspaper Plan] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141207140758/http://www.nsla.org.au/projects/anplan# |date=7 December 2014 }}.</ref>
The extent of [[Newspaper digitization|digitised newspaper archives]] is wide reaching and includes now defunct publications, such as the ''[[Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal]]'' and ''[[The Barrier Miner]]'' in New South Wales and [[The Argus (Melbourne)|''The Argus'']] in Victoria.{{NoteTag|Published in [[Melbourne]] between 1846 and 1947}}<ref>{{cite web |title = Newspaper Titles |url = http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about |website=Trove |publisher = National Library of Australia |access-date=3 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20160229052042/http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/about |archive-date=29 February 2016|url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> It includes the earliest published Australian newspaper, the ''[[Sydney Gazette]]'' (which dates to 1803), and some [[community language]] newspapers.<ref name="ANDP">{{cite web |title = Australian Newspaper Digitisation Program |url = http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program |publisher = National Library of Australia |access-date=3 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150702090621/http://www.nla.gov.au/content/newspaper-digitisation-program |archive-date=2 July 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Also included is ''[[The Australian Women's Weekly]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/368821/national_library_puts_iconic_aussie_magazine_web/ |title = National Library puts iconic Aussie magazine on Web |date = 22 November 2010 |access-date = 7 December 2014 |website = [[PCWorld]] |last = Rohan |first = Pearce |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141209115344/http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/368821/national_library_puts_iconic_aussie_magazine_web/ |archive-date = 9 December 2014 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref>{{NoteTag|Digitised between 1933 and 1982 – where the National Library acknowledges the use of newspapers and microfilm owned by the [[State Library of New South Wales]] and [[Australian Consolidated Press]] for the digitisation of the title.<ref>Acknowledgements – [https://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/112 Trove: The Australian Women's Weekly (1933–1982)] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141125210641/http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/title/112# |date=25 November 2014 }}</ref>}}
''[[The Canberra Times]]'' is the only major newspaper available beyond 1957. It allowed publication of its in-copyright archive up to 1995 as part of the "centenary of Canberra" in 2013,<ref>{{cite news |last=Boland-Rudder |first=Hamish |title = Yesterday's Canberra news gets an update for digital age at National Library |url = http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/yesterdays-canberra-news-gets-an-update-for-digital-age-at-national-library-20131225-2zwq8.html |access-date=5 December 2014 |newspaper=[[The Canberra Times]] |date=26 December 2013 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140220012844/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/yesterdays-canberra-news-gets-an-update-for-digital-age-at-national-library-20131225-2zwq8.html |archive-date=20 February 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> and the digitisation costs were raised with a [[crowdfunding]] campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/four-more-decades-of-print-now-in-digital-20130607-2nvx4.html |title = Four more decades of print now in digital |date = 18 June 2013 |access-date = 7 December 2014 |website = The Canberra Times |last = Warden |first = Ian |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150112172039/http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/four-more-decades-of-print-now-in-digital-20130607-2nvx4.html |archive-date = 12 January 2015 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref> Also crowdfunded, the Australian feminist magazine ''[[The Dawn (feminist magazine)|The Dawn]] ''was included on [[International Women's Day]] 2012.<ref>{{cite web |title = The Dawn rises again |date=8 March 2012 |publisher=National Library of Australia |url = https://www.nla.gov.au/media-releases/2012/03/08/the-dawn-rises-again |access-date=19 May 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140519062340/https://www.nla.gov.au/media-releases/2012/03/08/the-dawn-rises-again |archive-date=19 May 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last = Ross |first = Monique |title = New dawn for historic suffragette journal |newspaper=ABC News |date=8 March 2012 |url = http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-08/new-dawn-for-historic-suffragette-journal/3876066 |access-date=7 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150105055805/http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-03-08/new-dawn-for-historic-suffragette-journal/3876066 |archive-date=5 January 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
{{as of|2020|5|10}}, 23,498,368 newspaper pages and 2,026,782 government gazette pages were available to view.
;Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project
On 25 July 2008 the "Australian Newspapers Beta" service was released to the public as a standalone website and a year later became a fully integrated part of the newly launched Trove. The service contains millions of articles from 1803 onwards, with more content being added regularly.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/index.html |title = NLA.gov.au |website = NLA.gov.au |date=2012-02-17 |access-date=2012-05-30 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120825080221/http://www.nla.gov.au/ndp/index.html |archive-date=25 August 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> The website was the public face of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project, a coordination of major libraries in Australia to convert historic newspapers to text-searchable digital files. The Australian Newspapers website allowed users to search the database of digitised newspapers from 1803 to 1954 which are now in the [[public domain]].
The newspapers (frequently [[microfiche]] or other photographic facsimiles) were scanned and the text from the articles has been captured by [[optical character recognition]] (OCR) to facilitate easy searching, but it contains many OCR errors, often due to poor quality facsimiles.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.theaustralian.com.au/technology/devil-in-the-detail-for-landmark-national-library-of-australia-project/story-e6frgakx-1226141152015 |title = Devil in the detail for landmark National Library of Australia project |last = Foreshew |first = Jennifer |date = 20 September 2011 |newspaper = [[The Australian]] |access-date = 16 December 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url = http://heritagegenealogy.com.au/australian-newspapers-digitisation-project/ |title = Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project |last = Riley |first = Carole |date = 6 August 2008 |website = Heritage Genealogy |access-date = 16 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141217021033/http://heritagegenealogy.com.au/australian-newspapers-digitisation-project/ |archive-date = 17 December 2014 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref>
;Public text correctors
Since August 2008 the system has incorporated [[crowdsourced]] text-correction as a major feature, allowing the public to change the searchable text. Many users have contributed tens of thousands of corrected lines, and some have contributed millions.<ref>{{cite web |url = http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/05/15/troves-volunteers |title = Trove's Volunteers |date = 15 May 2014 |access-date = 7 December 2014 |website = Trove Blog |publisher = National Library of Australia |last = Drake |first = Jess |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210204337/http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/05/15/troves-volunteers |archive-date = 10 December 2014 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all}}</ref> As of January 2022 5.82% of articles have at least one correction.<ref>{{cite journal |url=https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/#analyse-rates-of-ocr-correction |title=GLAM Workbench: Trove newspapers |website=GLAM Workbench |year=2022 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.5910192 |last=Sherratt |first=Tim |access-date=June 3, 2022 |archive-date=18 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518070634/https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/#analyse-rates-of-ocr-correction |url-status=live }}</ref> This collaborative participation allows users to give back to the service and over time improves the database's searchability.<ref>{{cite news |url = http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/volunteers-with-an-eagleeye-on-the-news-20110206-1aifk.html |title = Volunteers with an eagle-eye on the news |last = Walters |first = Conrad |date = 7 February 2011 |newspaper = [[Sydney Morning Herald]] |access-date = 7 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150925014102/http://www.smh.com.au/technology/technology-news/volunteers-with-an-eagleeye-on-the-news-20110206-1aifk.html |archive-date = 25 September 2015 |url-status = live |df = dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last = Ridge |first = Mia |title = Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage |year = 2014 |location = Farnham, Surrey, England |publisher = [[Ashgate Publishing]] |isbn =978-1-4724-1022-1 }}</ref> The text-correcting community and other Trove users have been referred to as "Trovites".<ref>{{cite web |last=Tester |first=Alona |title = Trove Celebrates with TROVEmber |url = http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2014/11/trove-celebrates-with-trovember/ |website = Genealogy and History News |date=10 November 2014 |access-date=5 December 2014 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141210040515/http://www.gouldgenealogy.com/2014/11/trove-celebrates-with-trovember/ |archive-date=10 December 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
====Websites====
The [[Australian Web Archive]], created in March 2019,<ref name=bruns>{{cite web | last=Bruns | first=Axel | title=The Australian Web Archive is a momentous achievement – but things will get harder from here | website=The Conversation | date=14 March 2019 | url=http://theconversation.com/the-australian-web-archive-is-a-momentous-achievement-but-things-will-get-harder-from-here-113542 | access-date=6 May 2020 | archive-date=9 August 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809165833/https://theconversation.com/the-australian-web-archive-is-a-momentous-achievement-but-things-will-get-harder-from-here-113542 | url-status=live }}</ref> includes websites archived from 1996 until the present. This is the primary search portal of the [[PANDORA]] web-archiving service, and also includes the [[Australian Government Web Archive]] (AGWA) as well as websites from the ".au" [[web domain|domain]], which are collected annually through large [[web crawler|crawl harvests]].<ref name=awa>{{cite web| title=Archived websites (1996 – now)| website=Trove| url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/website| access-date=6 May 2020| archive-date=15 April 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200415003602/https://trove.nla.gov.au/website| url-status=live}}</ref>
====Other zones====
(In order of presentation along the top tab.)
*'''Pictures, photos, objects:''' Including digitised photographs, drawings, posters, postcards etc. Considerable numbers of images on [[Flickr]] with the appropriate licensing are donated as well.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture |title=Picture query page |access-date=6 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141203145610/http://trove.nla.gov.au/picture |archive-date=3 December 2014 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref> Replacing the previous "Pictures Australia" website.
*'''Journals, articles and datasets''' searching of academic and other periodicals, and various datasets.
*'''Government Gazettes:''' allows searching of official publications written for the purpose of notifying the public of government business.
*'''Music, sound and videos:''' allows searching of digitised historic [[sheet music]] and audio recordings. Replacing the previous "Music Australia" website. Also includes searchable transcripts from many [[Radio National]] programs.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sherratt|first1=Tim|title=Harvesting Radio National|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/04/17/harvesting-radio-national|website=Trove Blog|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=6 December 2014|date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141210105817/http://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/04/17/harvesting-radio-national|archive-date=10 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*'''Maps'''
*'''Diaries, letters, archives'''
*'''People and organisations:''' allows searching of biographical information and other resources about associated people and organisations, from resources including the [[Australian Dictionary of Biography]].
*'''Lists''' Users are able to create an account and log in to Trove. Once this is done, a type of "zone" called '''Lists''' allows logged-in users to make their own public compilations of items found in Trove searches. There is also a facility to join the Trove community and make contributions to the resources such as tags, comments and corrections.
==Reception and usage==
In a keynote address to the 14th National [[Australian Library and Information Association]] (ALIA) Conference in [[Melbourne]] in 2014, [[Roly Keating]], Chief Executive of the [[British Library]] described Trove as "exemplary" – a "both-end choice" of deep rich interconnected archive.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://nationalconference2014.alia.org.au/content/keynote-speakers |title=Keynote speakers at 2014 National ALIA conference |access-date=2 December 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150227062652/http://nationalconference2014.alia.org.au/content/keynote-speakers |archive-date=27 February 2015 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }}</ref>
[[Digital humanities]] researcher and Trove manager Tim Sherratt noted that in relation to the Trove Application Programming Interface (API) "delivery of cultural heritage resources in a machine-readable form, whether through a custom API or as [[Linked Open Data]], provides more than just improved access or possibilities for aggregation. It opens those resources to transformation. It empowers us to move beyond 'discovery' as a mode of interaction to analyse, extract, visualise and play".<ref>{{cite web|last1=Sherratt|first1=Tim|title='A map and some pins': open data and unlimited horizons|url=http://invisibleaustralians.org/blog/author/tim-sherratt/|website=Invisible Australians: living under the White Australia Policy|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140223000648/http://invisibleaustralians.org/blog/author/tim-sherratt/|archive-date=23 February 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> The subsequent development of the GLAM Workbench <ref>{{cite journal |url=https://glam-workbench.net/ |title=GLAM Workbench |year=2021 |doi=10.5281/zenodo.5603060 |last1=Sherratt |first1=Tim |journal=Zenodo |bibcode=2021zndo...5603060S |access-date=20 May 2022 |archive-date=18 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518152611/https://glam-workbench.net/ |url-status=live }}</ref> aims to utilise such machine readable data.<ref>{{cite journal | url = https://glam-workbench.net/trove/ | title = Trove API Introduction | year = 2019 | access-date = 20 May 2022 | doi = 10.5281/zenodo.3549551 | last1 = Sherratt | first1 = Tim | archive-date = 22 May 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220522224124/https://glam-workbench.net/trove/ | url-status = live }}</ref> Since 2018 the Australian Academic and Research Network ([[AARNet]]) has provided a dedicated [[Project Jupyter|Jupyter Notebooks environment]] that enables researchers "easily explore and analyse data held in the National Library of Australia (and Cloudstor) using Jupyter Notebooks created and openly shared by Associate Professor Tim Sherratt via the 'GLAM Workbench'."<ref>{{cite web | url = https://www.aarnet.edu.au/the-rise-and-rise-of-jupyter-notebooks/ | title = The rise and rise of Jupyter Notebooks | access-date = 20 May 2022 | archive-date = 16 May 2022 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20220516181313/https://www.aarnet.edu.au/the-rise-and-rise-of-jupyter-notebooks/ | url-status = live }}</ref>
The site has been described as "a model for collaborative digitization projects and serves to inform cultural heritage institutions building both large and small digital collections".<ref name="Thiel">{{cite journal|last1=Thiel, SG; Roberts, JR; Drost, CA.|title=Trove|journal=College & Research Libraries News|date=June 2013|volume=74|issue=6|pages=323–324|issn=0099-0086}}</ref>
The reach of the newspaper archives makes the service attractive to [[genealogist]]s<ref name="Kidman">{{cite web|last1=Kidman|first1=Angus|title=Trove Lets You Locate Books In Any Australian Library|url=http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/07/trove-lets-you-locate-books-in-any-australian-library|access-date=3 December 2014|date=5 July 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205010224/http://www.lifehacker.com.au/2010/07/trove-lets-you-locate-books-in-any-australian-library/|archive-date=5 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Gould">{{cite web|title=Trove: Discover Genealogy Treasure in the National Library of Australia|website=Gould Genealogy and History|url=http://www.gould.com.au/Trove-Discover-Genealogy-Treasure-in-the-NLA-p/utp0007.htm|access-date=3 December 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205122317/http://www.gould.com.au/Trove-Discover-Genealogy-Treasure-in-the-NLA-p/utp0007.htm|archive-date=5 December 2014|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{Citation | author1=Hicks, Shauna | author2=Unlock the Past (Project) | title=Trove: discover genealogy treasure in the National Library of Australia | date=2012 | publisher=Unlock the Past | isbn=978-0-9808746-0-0 }}</ref> and [[Knitting clubs|knitters]].<ref name="Thorpe" /> It is one of the most well-respected<ref>{{Cite web|url = http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Australian-museums-risk-becoming-digital-dinosaurs.aspx|title = An Innovation Study: Challenges and Opportunities for Australia's Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums|date = 16 September 2014|access-date = 18 December 2014|website = Australian museums must innovate or risk becoming 'digital dinosaurs'|publisher = [[CSIRO]]|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141024042338/http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Australian-museums-risk-becoming-digital-dinosaurs.aspx|archive-date = 24 October 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref> and accessed GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url = http://www.cio.com.au/article/556019/national-library-australia-invests-digital-future/|title = National Library of Australia invests in digital future|last = Sweeney|first = Shahida|date = 26 September 2014|work = [[CIO Magazine]]|access-date = 3 December 2014|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20141211130247/http://www.cio.com.au/article/556019/national-library-australia-invests-digital-future/|archive-date = 11 December 2014|url-status = live|df = dmy-all}}</ref><ref name="Thorpe" />
Dr Liz Stainforth of the [[University of Leeds]] calls it "that rare beast: a digital heritage platform with popular appeal"; "of the most successful of its kind among aggregators such as [[Europeana]], the [[Digital Public Library of America]] and...[[DigitalNZ]]". What distinguishes it from the other three is that it also delivers content, and engages with the general public, which has created a form of [[virtual community]] amongst its text correctors. Users can log in and thus create their own lists, and also correct the text of newspapers scanned using [[Optical character recognition]] (OCR), with an honour board for the top correctors.  International researchers also use Trove: a 2018 showed the site among the top 15 for external citations in the English-language version of Wikipedia. The width and breadth of its audience adds to its uniqueness.<ref name=stainforth>{{cite web | last=Stainforth | first=Liz | publisher=University of Melbourne | title=Treasuring Trove: Why Australia's digital heritage platform is so special | website=Pursuit | date=26 October 2018 | url=https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/treasuring-trove-why-australia-s-digital-heritage-platform-is-so-special | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=3 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200403150006/https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/treasuring-trove-why-australia-s-digital-heritage-platform-is-so-special | url-status=live }}</ref>
=== Awards ===
Trove received the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment Award and the 2011 Service Delivery Category Award.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.techworld.com.au/article/388738/cebit_2011_trove_search_engine_wins_egovernment_award/|title=CeBIT 2011: Trove search engine wins eGovernment award: Content from more than 1000 libraries|last=Gedda|first=Rodney|date=2 June 2011|website=TechWorld|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204232104/https://www.techworld.com.au/article/388738/cebit_2011_trove_search_engine_wins_egovernment_award/|archive-date=4 December 2017|url-status=live|access-date=5 December 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | title=Trove takes top honours in Government awards | website=National Library of Australia | date=6 June 2011 | url=https://www.nla.gov.au/media-releases/trove-takes-top-honours-in-government-awards | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=9 July 2021 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210709182836/https://www.nla.gov.au/media-releases/trove-takes-top-honours-in-government-awards | url-status=dead }}</ref>
== Budget cuts ==
In the wake of the [[Government of Australia|Australian Government]]'s 2015 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook Statement, Trove funding was cut with the result that the National Library of Australia would cease "aggregating content in Trove from museums and universities unless ... fully funded to do so".<ref>Henry Belot, [https://www.smh.com.au/national/budget-cuts-will-have-a-grave-impact-on-the-national-library-staff-told-20160222-gn0co2.html "Budget cuts will have a 'grave impact' on the National Library, staff told"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412073149/https://www.smh.com.au/national/budget-cuts-will-have-a-grave-impact-on-the-national-library-staff-told-20160222-gn0co2.html |date=12 April 2020 }}, ''[[The Sydney Morning Herald]]'', 22 February 2016. Retrieved 12 April 2020.</ref> In addition, it was argued that the cuts would further "result in many smaller institutions across Australia being unable to afford to add their digital collections to this national knowledge infrastructure".<ref>{{cite web | title=Peak bodies advocate for Trove | website=Australian Library and Information Association | date=7 March 2016 | url=https://www.alia.org.au/advocacy-and-campaigns/peak-bodies-advocate-trove | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=12 April 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412073832/https://www.alia.org.au/advocacy-and-campaigns/peak-bodies-advocate-trove | url-status=live }}</ref> Those smaller institutions would include local historical societies, clubs, schools, and commercial and public organisations, as well as private collections.
In March 2016 ten major Australian galleries, libraries, archives and museums (commonly referred to as the [[GLAM (industry sector)|GLAM sector]]) signed a statement of support for Trove, in which they warned that the budgetary cuts would "hamper the development of our world leading portal and will be a major obstacle to exposing the collections of smaller and regional institutions" and that "without additional funding, Trove will not fulfil its promise as the discovery site for all Australian cultural content".<ref>[https://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/Trove%20-%20GLAM%20statement%20-%2010%20March%202016.pdf GLAM PEAK BODIES STATEMENT OF SUPPORT FOR TROVE] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412073942/https://www.alia.org.au/sites/default/files/Trove%20-%20GLAM%20statement%20-%2010%20March%202016.pdf |date=12 April 2020 }}, [[Australian Library and Information Association]], alia.org.au. Retrieved 12 April 2020.</ref> Similar statements were issued by the [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]]<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160404221913/http://humanities.org.au/News/News/tabid/109/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/1998/Critical-research-infrastructure-at-risk.aspx Critical research infrastructure at risk], [[Australian Academy of the Humanities]], humanities.org.au. Retrieved 12 April 2020.</ref> and the [[National Trust of Australia|National Trust (NSW)]].<ref>[https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/initiatives/de-funding-of-trove/ De-funding of Trove] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412081202/https://www.nationaltrust.org.au/initiatives/de-funding-of-trove/ |date=12 April 2020 }}, nationaltrust.org.au. Retrieved 12 April 2020.</ref>
Tim Sherratt, a former manager of Trove, warned in early 2016 that fewer collections would be added and that less digitised content would be available – "not quite a content freeze, but certainly a slowdown".<ref>{{cite web|first=Tim|last=Sherratt|url=http://discontents.com.au/fundtrove/|title=#FundTrove|date=24 Feb 2016|website=Discontents|access-date=9 May 2020|archive-date=17 April 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417053631/http://discontents.com.au/fundtrove/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Following extensive campaigning, including a public campaign on [[Twitter]], Trove received a commitment of {{AUD|16.4}} million in December 2016, spread over four years.<ref name=stainforth/><ref>{{cite web | last=Villiers | first=Annelie de | title=#FundTROVE | website=Identity & Archives | date=23 February 2016 | url=https://anneliedevilliers.com/2016/02/23/fundtrove/ | access-date=10 May 2020 | archive-date=6 July 2019 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190706063214/http://anneliedevilliers.com/2016/02/23/fundtrove/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
By early 2020, with the surge in demand for all types of digital services, the National Library was having to cope with increasingly dwindling staff resources to develop services on Trove and National edeposit, and undertook a restructure of its staffing and operations.<ref>{{cite web | last=Rollins | first=Adrian | title=Job cuts a 'live possibility' in National Library of Australia restructure | website=The Canberra Times | date=28 February 2020 | url=https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6653043/job-cuts-a-live-possibility-in-national-library-restructure/ | access-date=9 May 2020 | archive-date=7 May 2020 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507041525/https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/6653043/job-cuts-a-live-possibility-in-national-library-restructure/ | url-status=live }}</ref>
''The Age'' and ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' revealed in 2022 that the current funding arrangements for Trove would cease at the end of June 2023, leading to its closure.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Kelly |date=2023-01-06 |title=National Library of Australia's free digital archives may be forced to close without funding |url=https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/06/national-library-of-australias-free-digital-archives-may-be-forced-to-close-without-funding |access-date=2023-01-13 |website=[[The Guardian]] |language=en |archive-date=13 January 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230113093653/https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/jan/06/national-library-of-australias-free-digital-archives-may-be-forced-to-close-without-funding |url-status=live }}</ref> In April, it was announced that the federal government pledged [[Emergency fund|emergency funding]] of $33 million over the next four years to the NLA.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roberts |first=Georgia |date=3 April 2023 |title=Trove secures funding as federal government comes to rescue of National Library of Australia's digitised archive |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/funding-for-trove-announced-by-federal-government/102177488 |access-date=18 July 2023 |website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]] |archive-date=17 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230717195415/https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-03/funding-for-trove-announced-by-federal-government/102177488 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Burke |first=Kelly |date=3 April 2023 |title=Trove: National Library of Australia's digital archives thrown $33m lifeline by federal government |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/03/trove-national-library-of-australias-digital-archives-thrown-33m-lifeline-by-federal-government |access-date=July 18, 2023 |website=[[The Guardian]] |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718101404/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/03/trove-national-library-of-australias-digital-archives-thrown-33m-lifeline-by-federal-government |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Knott |first1=Matthew |last2=Morris |first2=Linda |date=3 April 2023 |title=Funding pledge saves National Library's Trove from closure threat |url=https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/funding-pledge-saves-national-library-s-trove-from-closure-threat-20230402-p5cxdn.html |url-access=limited |access-date=July 18, 2023 |website=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |archive-date=18 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230718101404/https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/funding-pledge-saves-national-library-s-trove-from-closure-threat-20230402-p5cxdn.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
== Continuing development ==
In July–August 2020 a redesigned user interface was unrolled, with a more open display of search results and a new logo reminiscent of a [[keyhole]].
Pilot testing for handwritten text recognition using [[Optical character recognition|Optical Character Recognition]] (OCR) and [[Handwriting recognition|Handwritten Text Recognition]] (HTR) began in October 2023 with text correcting functionality appearing on some handwritten and unpublished material.<ref>{{Cite web |date=19 October 2023 |title=Handwritten text recognition: testing, testing, 1.2.3. |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/announcement/2023/10/19/handwritten-text-recognition-testing-testing-123 |access-date=2024-05-04 |website=Trove |language=en}}</ref>
== See also ==
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* [[Digital Public Library of America]]
* [[Europeana]]
* [[List of newspapers in Australia]]
** [[List of newspapers in New South Wales]]
*[[National Digital Library Program]] (NDLP), US digital library created by scanning the resources of the Library of Congress
*[[National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program]] (NDIIPP) - US digitisation project
* [[Warwick Cathro]]
== Notes ==
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==References==
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==Further reading==
* {{cite web|last1=Boston|first1=Tony|title=Exposing the deep web to increase access to library collections|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1224/1509|publisher=National Library of Australia|access-date=16 December 2014|archive-date=4 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304003926/http://www.nla.gov.au/openpublish/index.php/nlasp/article/view/1224/1509|url-status=dead}} In {{cite conference |url= http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/index.html |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170215002723/http://ausweb.scu.edu.au/aw05/index.html |url-status= dead |archive-date= 15 February 2017 |author1= Treloar, Andrew |author2= Ellis, Allan |author3= Southern Cross University |title= AusWeb05 : the eleventh Australasian World Wide Web Conference : AusWeb05 : making a difference with the web : proceedings of AusWeb05 |date= 2005 |publisher= Southern Cross University |isbn= 978-0-9751644-3-3 |df= dmy-all }}
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