The Collection Online platform launched in November 2021 after extensive development and beta-testing by the Gallery community, has also been realised to make artworks, images and content more easily discoverable and accessible to audiences everywhere. QAGOMA’s Collection Online now consists of over 100 000 pages, including more than 20 000 object pages, with weekly releases of new content and monthly releases of additional features, including digital stories, behind-the-scenes content, artist videos and high-resolution imagery. 

Since its launch, visitor access to the Collection has increased fivefold.  This project continues to be a project we are involved in and we continue to support the QAGOMA team, helping them to develop their expertise in this area.

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After the program concluded there were a number of iterations, design improvements, and customer testing rounds which led to the development of Q-Album, which went live with a soft launch in late 2019. Q-Album hosts over 500 historic collection items from the collection, and has now been opened to community groups across Queensland to contribute their historic items to build a community resource. The platform includes comparisons between historic photos and modern street views; digitised archival materials; publishing workflows between community groups and QSA; mapping tools; tag-based taxonomies of content; organisational profiles; and cross-referencing to TROVE and other historic data sources.

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The 12 week project involved setting up a Drupal website, and then undertaking a range of work to enable us to present modern Google Street View photographs to be juxtaposed with the archival photos to show a “now and then” of the photos and give some historical context.  This was done to a high degree of spatial accuracy, and the mapping interface becomes an entry point into the archival collection – viewing the photo acts as an anchor to related links in archives and series.  Further work on this project is scheduled for late 2017.

You can also read about this project via the blogs below.

• Announcing the project
• Showcasing the project (and how the TWiG project supports businesses)
• Reflections on the project

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Using an Agile methodology, development occurred rapidly and was tested by the collection institutions around Tasmania.  The submission process for these institutions was based on a relatively simple Microsoft Excel spreadsheet, that is able to be ingested through an Amazon Web Services serverless build, minimising operational costs.  Through this approach, there are no major technology requirements acting as a barrier to participation for the collecting institutions.

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In 2018, we worked with the University of Tasmania to implement a Digital Preservation System, based on the Archivematica software.  This involved setting up Archivematica on the University’s NECTAR Infrastructure and configuring the system in conjunction with training for the staff at the University.  This then was added to the support arrangements for the University and we continue to support both their Digital Preservation and Archival Management systems.

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The workshop ran in a similar fashion to the University of Melbourne project, where the current and future states for the Heritage Centre were mapped out, along with a discussion around the potential roadmap.  As a result of this one-day workshop, a four-phase plan was created and delivered to the Geelong Heritage Centre that will be used, in conjunction with other material, to move them forward with this important project.

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The workshop involved determining the current state, the future state and the roadmap for the Archives unit to move into Digital Archives. A range of preparation work was done prior to the workshop, which was run in one day.  The workshop itself covered a range of topics, and included interactive exercises designed to build understanding and collaboration between the stakeholders as well as with the project team.

A formal plan was developed after the workshop and was delivered to the Archives unit and forms the basis for their ongoing Digital Archives roadmap.

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Our initial brief was to travel to Adelaide to provide a short on-site support project for the team at Flinders.  This was an intense three day session where a range of issues were investigated and where possible completed.  This resulted in a range of different issues being solved during his initial period, which has then flowed on into other projects.

As part of this project all potential issues were discussed and outlined in detail so that further work could be planned out in a staged approach.  This was then set aside for further work in the future (as well as their Pawtucket instance) including the provision of additional, ongoing support.

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WANMA is an interactive web portal presenting a collection of content related to the history of new music in Western Australia. It includes audio and video recordings, images, and a range of documents, drawn from a wide range of different sources, including Tura New Music and the ABC Classic FM archives.  The portal also allows for bands and individuals to submit their own works to WANMA.

We took on this project as part of our Collections stream and have build a custom solution for WANMA to cater for their requirements, as our other open source collection platforms didn’t meet the brief.  This has resulted in the development of a highly responsive application (consisting of a storage engine, an API, data importers and a Single Page Application) that takes advantage of cloud computing (through Amazon Web Services) to ensure that this video, audio and other media content is replicated across the world, at a minimal cost to the project.

Gaia Resources continues to host, maintain and support WANMA over the next few years.

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You can directly connect to the sites here:

• Website – https://www.histwest.org.au/
• Research portal (accessing their Collection) – https://research.histwest.org.au/
• Online shop – https://shop.histwest.org.au/

Our blogs on this project include:

• Commencement blog
• Launch blog

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