Ms Amy Walduck1
1State Library Of Queensland, South Brisbane, Australia
State Library of Queensland preserves and shares knowledge of Queensland’s history, collecting materials that chronicle events, people, places and the ideas shaping Queensland. By supporting developers and creatives to use our digital collections and collections data in highly creative and experimental ways we can interact more meaningfully, because what we search for reveals something about ourselves: about what we don’t know, what we have forgotten, or what we want to know more about. In a similar vein, what a group of people search for reveals something about the group. As part State Library’s Digital and Open Data Strategies, a variety of datasets are freely available via the Queensland Government Open Data Portal including text strings searched in State Library’s online library catalogue. The Digital Collections Catalyst 2021 transformed more than ten years of library catalogue data and created an interactive landscape based on the language, themes, subjects, and terms involved. The result is a dynamic tool that helps us to understand what, when and how our users are searching the library catalogue.
Biography:
Amy Walduck is a librarian, an extrovert, a creative and has embraced a colourful career across state, academic, special, and public libraries. As a creative problem-solver, she thrives in busy, collaborative environments working with passionate people. At State Library of Queensland, Amy is currently working on digital, open data and collections as data initiatives such as the Digital Collections Catalyst and Making Meaning: Collections as Data Symposium.