South Australia’s Riverland adopted a Swedish system to control the dissemination of alcohol, even as it began the journey to becoming Australia’s biggest wine producer.
While a large amount of our resources are books and journal articles, reflecting Trove’s bibliographic roots, most of our collecting effort goes to unique Australian content. That’s the stuff that gets us excited. That’s the stuff that we want to help make as accessible as possible.
I’ll admit that aggregation in itself doesn’t seem particularly exciting – we’ve been doing this stuff for many years, generations of portals have come and gone. But what does get me excited are some of the things that aggregation makes possible or easier – possibilities beyond the search box, beyond simple discovery.