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SUMMARY:(note: Of Maps and Metadata)
DESCRIPTION:The New York Semantic Web Meetup\n\nhttp://www.nypl.org/researc
 h/calendar/class/hssl/talkdesc.cfm?id=5351\n\nOf maps and metadata:\nExplor
 ations in online access at the National Archives of Australia\nDr. Tim Sher
 ratt\, National Archives of Australia\n\nMonday\, April 6\, 2009 ? 12 PM-2 
 PM\n\nSouth Court Auditorium\nStephen A. Schwartzman Building\nThe New York
  Public Library\nFifth Avenue and 42nd Street\, New York\, NY\n\nThis progr
 am is free and open to the public.\nNo registration is necessary.\n\nThe Na
 tional Archives of Australia provides online access to 1.6 million fully-di
 gitized files\, totaling more than 20 million digital images. Another 6 mil
 lion are described in its online database. This represents only about ten p
 er cent of of the Archives' total holdings\, but it's more than enough to c
 hallenge the skills of even the most experienced researcher. As these numbe
 rs continue to grow\, issues of access\, findability and visualization will
  become increasingly pressing. How will we orient researchers within this m
 ass of data? How will we help them find what they want? How will we help th
 em use what they've found?\n\nIn November 2008\, the National Archives of A
 ustralia launched Mapping our Anzacs <http://mappingouranzacs.naa.gov.au/>\
 , a Google Maps based interface to the 376\,000 World War I service records
  in its care. Through this site\, users can browse places around the world 
 where service people were born or enlisted\, following links to digitized c
 opies of their records. They can also contribute notes and photos through a
 n online scrapbook. Mapping our Anzacs provides a wholly new way of accessi
 ng and interacting with the collection and has proved very popular\, but ho
 w can the ideas underpinning its development be applied more broadly?\n\nTh
 is talk will discuss the past and future of Mapping our Anzacs and introduc
 e some of the other online initiatives being explored by the National Archi
 ves of Australia.\n\nDr. Tim Sherratt works as a web content developer at t
 he National Archives of Australia. He is a historian of Australian science 
 and culture who has been developing online resources relating to archives a
 nd history since 1993. He has written on weather\, progress and the atomic 
 age\, and has developed resources including Bright Sparcs and Mapping our A
 nzacs.\n\n--\nMark A. Matienzo\nApplications Developer\, Digital Experience
  Group\nThe New York Public Library\n\nNew York\, NY  10010 - USA\n\nMonday
 \, April 6 at 12:00 PM\n\nPhoto: http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/eve
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