In comparing the #FundTrove campaigns of 2022-23 and original 2016, I consider a question of ethics. Does it matter whether the public is well informed?

ICYMI, see my article “Trove - Funding, Campaign and Performance”: https://coombe.id.au/blog/TroveFundingAndMore.htm#CampaignEthics

#TroveAU #NationalLibraryAU #TroveFunding #FundTrove

Yet another article on Trove relying on anecdote to tug on your heart-strings and avoiding accountability for poor performance revealed by the numbers. (#Canberra Times today p.10)

For measures and analysis of what’s going on, ICYMI, see my article “Trove - Funding, Campaign and Performance”: https://coombe.id.au/blog/TroveFundingAndMore.htm

#TroveAU #NationalLibraryAU #TroveFunding #FundTrove

Trove - Funding, Campaign and Performance

- #FundTrove 2022-23 campaign reviewed with timeline (plus original 2016)

- #TroveFunding untangled

- “Love” & ethics

- Where NLA went wrong.

My new (longish but with pictures) article ICYMI: https://coombe.id.au/blog/TroveFundingAndMore.htm

#NationalLibraryAU #TroveAu

Trove - Funding, Campaign and Performance

A review of the #FundTrove campaign 2022-23 as it happened and glance back to original 2016.

#TroveFunding untangled.

Where Trove went wrong.

Plus: ethics & “love”!

And a summary and detailed timelines!



#NationalLibraryAU #TroveAU

My new (longish but with pictures) article: https://coombe.id.au/blog/TroveFundingAndMore.htm

I think next week I’ll have enough to post a brief history of Trove funding.

#NationalLibraryAU #NLAgovAU #TroveFunding #TroveAU

Still looking at NLA-Trove funding numbers …

NLA injected with $16.4 million from Public Service Modernisation Fund over 4 years to 2020.

To “invest further in its digital infrastructure, recommence digitising its collections, resume adding … library, research, museum and archive collections to Trove and enhance access to its own collections … [and support] longer lead times and more gradual transition to new business models, which require Commonwealth, state and local agencies to invest in the Trove infrastructure they use to enhance access to their own collections.

“[NLA] Council is mindful that this funding is both FINITE and for SPECIFIC purposes ... Council’s focus is on maximising the business benefits of the funding while simultaneously planning to maintain the Library’s CAPABILITY when the FUNDING CONCLUDES.”

#NationalLibraryAU #NLAgovAU #TroveFunding #TroveAU

My CAPS. Source (2016-17) https://www.nla.gov.au/corporate-documents/annual-reports

For those interested in detail, Commonwealth funding for National Library of Australia comes under one grab bag "Outcome 1: Enhanced learning, knowledge creation, enjoyment and understanding of Australian life and society by providing access to a national collection of library material". This is a single budget amount and includes Trove. There is no separate #TroveFunding.

Budget documents: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/about-us/corporate-reporting/budgets

#TroveAU #NLAgovAU #FundTrove

Blocked on Twitter by PHAVicTas who have chosen to ignore evidence inconvenient to their #FundTrove #SaveTrove campaign. Ideological historians or just an organisational social media account wanting to disseminate with no debate?
#TroveFunding #TroveAU #histodons

Blocked on Twitter by PHAVicTas who have chosen to ignore evidence inconvenient to their #FundTrove #SaveTrove campaign. Ideological historians or just an organisational social media account wanting to disseminate with no debate?
#TroveFunding #TroveAU

WHO FUNDS TROVE?
I checked the numbers. You may be surprised at what I did & didn't find.

1. gov.au budgets lump sum for National Library (NLA) - no mention of Trove.
2. NLA reports Trove Collaborative Services (TCS) income from partners such as State Libraries; stated goal "full cost-recovery program over time." i.e., NLA intends to fully fund Trove.
3. NLA doesn't report Trove spend, e.g. whether improving platform for all or digitising own material.
Q. Who funds Trove? A: NLA (from its budget and charges on its partners).

So, question the library and history industries' emotive and misleading #FundTrove #SaveTrove campaign and NLA's silence.

#TroveFunding #NationalLibraryAU #TroveAU #NLAgovAU

Budget: https://www.infrastructure.gov.au/about-us/corporate-reporting/budgets
NLA: https://www.nla.gov.au/corporate-documents/annual-reports