Taking Picture Queensland to the World
The State Library of Queensland's Picture Queensland website is part of Queensland Heritage Online and consists of a collection of images about Queensland, its people and places, past and present. Picture Queensland was launched initially in 2003 and as at the end of February 2007 there are over 34,000 images on the site. This initiative is funded by the Queensland Government’s Online Public Access in Libraries service that supports innovative projects designed to improve Queenslanders’ access to information.
Picture Queensland is a statewide portal – a central gathering place that gives users a convenient one-stop-shop for Queensland-related images, and provides cultural organisations with a location for storing and displaying their digital images. Twelve organisations display their images on Picture Queensland, with new contributors being added regularly. Library technicians are responsible for the indexing of all records added to the Picture Queensland website.
This talk would outline the following topics and include a tour of the website:
• Picture Queensland for everyone via the World Wide Web
• The leading role of Heritage Collections library technicians
in coordinating new additions to the Picture Queensland site and indexing its content
• How we achieve it : Indexing standards and procedures for images created for Picture Queensland eg. Metadata and subject headings
• Contributors and how we work together
• Highlights from the website