Here's another in MBC's great parade of new shows Ladies and gentlemen the story you're about to hear is true Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent MBC brings you dragnet You're a detective sergeant You're assigned to homicide There's a mad killer at large in your city a Woman has been brutally slain the body mutilated The picture is clear The killer has a thirst for blood Your job Get him dragnet the documented drama of an actual crime Investigated and solved by the men who unrelentingly stand watch on the security of your home your family and your life For the next 30 minutes transcribed in cooperation with the Los Angeles police department You will travel step-by-step on the side of the law through an actual case from official police files From beginning to end from crime to punishment Dragnet is the story of your police force in action It was Wednesday January 12th. It was raining in Los Angeles. We were working the night watch out of homicide My partner's been Romero the boss is Ed Backstrand chief of detectives. My name's Friday I was on the way back from the morgue and it was 11 23 p.m. When I got to room 42 Homicide chief wants to see you. He's in there with Romero. Thanks, Chandler. How's the wife fine? How about your mother better? Thanks? Hi, Joe. Hi, honey. Sit down. Did they post the body in in the morning? Pretty messy strangled and mutilated the guys a maniac skipper the body shows it and murder like this Anybody's a suspect the coroner looked at the body. He says the weapon was a long sharp instrument Found her in a hotel down on East 3rd Street Manager son discovered her about 730. You talked to him. It's too much for him. He passed out Manager wasn't home. We'll check with him before midnight close to it now, Joe We better get going all right the boys from the crime lab check the room They're still down there Ed. The place is a mess and get back as soon as you can we're working straight through on this thing That's a hot shot. I'll get it Lux hotel room 219 corner of South Grandin Cordova dead body possible homicide The Lux hotel room 219 corner of South Grandin Cordova dead What is it Friday? Lux hotel possible homicide busy night. Yeah, you coming in right? Let's go Six minutes later Ed back strand Ben and I pulled up in front of the Lux hotel Manager met us at the door and led the way up a narrow stairway to the second floor the room number was 219 We were prepared for the worst we got it You're right room error The guy must be a maniac Two hotels two murders the same MO Three of us made a brief inspection of the room of the Lux hotel We took a few notes in the appearance of the girls body in a brief description Apparently she'd been strangled to death first and then her body brutally mangled Ben and I went back down to the lobby The manager of mr. Ford showed us the house book the girl was registered together with a man Mr. And Mrs. Philip Grant We took the hotel register to have it checked for fingerprints and to photo stat the handwriting Ben notified the crime lab then we went back to the Roman question the manager mr. And Mrs. Philip Grant That's all I know. I never saw either one of them before tonight. When did they check in mr. Ford about three hours ago? That's right about nine maybe a little before did they register together? Yeah a little before nine They came in together. Did you let them in the room? Yes, sir. Like I always do It's a small place here. Maybe not first-class, but I treat people right What did the man look like you remember I think so kind of tall Young maybe 30 or so husky fella had a mustache. How tall would you say mr. Ford? Oh? About your height Wade must have been at least 180 seemed like a nice fella Would you know him if you saw him again? I think so People sure don't act like they look you think it was him and you think of anybody else. Well, no I never saw him before tonight either one of them. I don't know anything about it Did you notice anything in particular about them when they came in? Well, he didn't show it, but it looked like she'd been drinking a little giggling, you know And you didn't see this man grant leave the hotel. No, I didn't I must have been checking the account books back at the desk Guess he got by me. He's a back entrance to the hotel mr. Ford. No, he had to come out this way All right, how about the fire escape? I never thought of that Say I bet you cops think I'm trying to hide something. How did you happen to find the body? I don't know anything about it honest I've been running the hotel for ten years now. Everybody knows me around here. You can ask at the bank. All right, mr. Ford Now would you mind telling us how you happen to find the body? I don't want a lot of lousy newspaper publicity give the place a bad name Can you blame me the newspapers won't get your name from us All we want to know is how you happen to find the body. Well, I told you it's a small place here But I like to treat people right a couple hours after they checked in I remembered I forgot to fill the ice water pitcher in the room, so I got some and took it up The door was opened a little ways It's got a bad catch on it and the lights were on I peaked in and there she was She was Well, the guy must have been crazy You remember what time it was when you found her well just before I called the cops about half past 11 I guess all right for that's all for now When the other officers get here show them up William. Yes, sir. I sure will remember. Yes, give her Get on the phone downstairs and call the Metropolitan Division Have them send us every available man from the reserve unit We're going to patrol the area for the rest of the night. Right. She least we can do is make it hard for them Two murders in seven hours Both of them in a three-block radius same pattern. It's got to be the same guy All right, we got a description What do you think? When the reserve unit shows up have them cover this whole section of town pick up everybody who even comes close to that guy's description All right, Ed. It's got to go fast. We can't lose a minute one hour either way it might mean another body like this one Nine minutes later at four minutes past midnight the men from the crime lab showed up it started to drizzle They went over the room in detail They dusted everything in the room for fingerprints the walls the doors the fixtures in the bathroom lamps chairs everything It took samples of the girls blood and her lipstick Small pieces of flesh and human hair were found under the girls fingernails the nails were scraped carefully and the contents put An envelope marked and sealed Ed backstrand ordered pictures taken of the room and the girls body from different angles Every object in the room that could have any possible tie-in with a murder was photographed It was raining The rear of the hotel where the fire escape was overlooked a vacant lot Ben had a hunch while the lab men were at work We left the hotel and circled around into the lot for a look at the ground directly underneath the fire escape ladder Was raining hard now Must be a easier way to make 11 Mud's almost up to my knee line to watch your step See any prints. No Way to my wife sees these new shoes put it on your expense account. Oh real fun Ben get that light over here look Yeah Good set of prints Lucky that rain didn't start turning to wash them out by now. Yeah, hand me that cover from the trash can over there I'll cover them Wait a minute what? Here on the edge of the fire escape ladder Small hunk of cloth man suit. Oh looks like it might have caught himself in that sharp corner. I Got it. All right. Come on. Let's get back.  We gave the bloodstained knife and the piece of cloth We found on the fire escape to Lieutenant Lee Jones head of the crime lab We told him about the footprints just below the fire escape ladder the knife will help us sew the cloth I don't know about the footprints. You say you covered them. That's right Lee They still look from pretty good shade. Maybe we can do something if the rain hasn't broken them down too bad Bracken. Yeah, lieutenant you and Sloan get downstairs and take a look at those prints They're good enough get a torch dry them out and make a cast right? Okay, Lieutenant. Come on That's about all I can do for you now. Yeah, I think we got everything there is to get all right Jones I'll follow you back to the lab in a couple of minutes. Okay, Ed. Good luck fellas. Thanks Lee We're gonna need it. All right Friday Romero. It's your baby for the rest of the night They get anything few prints a woman's purse under the bed. I don't know if it's hers or not no identification You're gonna be at the crime lab, Ed. All night as soon as we find anything. I'll let you know Yeah Gang of cops just came in the lobby. They asked for you must be the reserve men from metropolitan Tell them we'll be right down for it. Okay You want us to handle it Ed? That's right Do just as I told you It's better mount over the whole area cover the streets the alleys the flop houses restaurants bars everything You got a description to go on find the man that fits it. Right skipper. Don't forget the guys that kill her twice over I don't think he'd hesitate on you Be careful We went down to the lobby and it back strand gave the reserve men their orders Then back strand left and Ben and I took over we picked up another half dozen men in addition to the men in the reserve unit They were deployed over an area of a dozen square blocks It was one of the toughest sections of the city with a general description of the suspect Some of them were to travel on foot summon cruiser cars a few minutes before 1 a.m. There was a steady downpour Visibility was bad at three minutes past one. The manhunt was on For the first 30 minutes Ben and I cruise the general area between East 3rd and College streets and Alameda and Figueroa No sign The rain kept on Saddles with the calls come in All units recovered license plate to the sixth column for young seven six nine. Oh 41r 788 standard Avenue at 373 41r Unit 71 at two eight one six West Las Vegas 507 what do you think Joe any hunt you I think he's still around Somewhere inside these 12 blocks I'd bet on it five All right, you're on Want to check out a couple of these bars along here getting on a closing time. It's a good idea pull over All right, let's check them for the next couple blocks, sir, right For the next six blocks until closing time Ben and I checked every bar and every informant We met along the way the questions got to be automatic Have you seen a man answering this description? tall dark about five feet 11 180 pounds well built mustache About 30 years old The answers got to be automatic too. Sorry officer. I haven't seen him. Oh can't remember him Try the place down the street. We kept on checking the bars until they closed for the night Then we started on the all-night restaurants and coffee counters We did plenty of legwork for the next hour not a trace About 2 30 the rain let up a little and then it started in heavy all over again That finishes that block. Yeah, I better get the radio on yeah Beautiful weather by the bucket full Not a smoke. Hmm. Thank you Control for unit 80k 80k your location KMA 367 that's us Joe. You want to take it? Yeah, I got it 80k to control for 80k to control for our location corner of Alameda and commercial KMA 367 Something doing maybe no, hold on a minute Control for 80k go to the crime lab 80k to control for KMA 367 crime lab. Maybe those prints paid off. Well, I hope so. Let's go And killer sure big fine weather to work in feels like I just been swimming in these clothes Yeah, I hope those guys in the crime lab have the heater on hot bath in a warm bed. Lead me on I double around Ben hit the siren. I'll get the light right hold on Yeah, watch out for those contracts are wet You're right, huh? All right, what happened? Let's have it Rita she was coming home up the street a man. He tried to grab it. He slashed her coat Look at that. I saw him as you've been under the street light.  All right, Ben go with Davis circle behind the alley see what you can find I'll call in all right.   What's wrong with her severe state of shock? It looks like get her in the house, huh? I'll call an ambulance 80k to control for 80k to control for Direct all units in the vicinity to converge on area around st John's place from Jackson to Banning Street a woman attacked by large man with knife Suspect left scene on foot possibly still an area request ambulance KMA 367 Converge on area around st. John's place Jackson to Banning Street 80k reports woman attacked by large man with knife In three minutes the area around st John's place was surrounded for the next hour the men home the neighborhood back and forth every building every storehouse in the Two-square blocks was searched from basement to attic no trace The girl Rita was hysterical. She could give us only a bare description of her attacker At 345 a.m. A detail was assigned to patrol the area and the rest of the cars and men were deployed again in the General area from Figueroa to Alameda Street and East 3rd to College Street The manhunt went on so did the rain At 3.54 Ben and I checked in at the old city jail building second floor the crime lab Chief had back strand and Lee Jones were waiting for us heard about the call. How'd he get away? I'm not sure it was him skipper. How do you mean? Well, the girl wasn't hurt bad for one thing no attempted strangling for another thing the guy stole her purse That doesn't sound like a man were after did you get a description from the girl didn't jive too well Which she gave us he's pretty hysterical and you rake the neighborhood good every corner not a sign you find anything Yeah, Jones.  They didn't help too much really do not enough to go on gonna have a fair size bit of flesh to run with the papal ridges All we found under the girl's fingernails are small bits of skin Yeah, she probably scratched the guy up some might have drawn blood We had more luck with the footprints and get an impression right out the ground with torches and cast them about size 10 Be that's finally but how about the prince only good one was a thumb real good Got her off the wall near the light switch in the bathroom you classified you yep founded And are a single fingerprint file the print belongs to a man by the name of long Robert long. You got a record ed Yeah, mr. Meener to arrest for drunkenness last October petty theft in December The mama she chose a dishonorable discharge from the United States Coast Guard in 1946 age 29 192 pounds 5 feet 10 inches dark hair dark eyes. That's close enough. We got even closer Joe Long works as a counterman at the cottage cafe down on south flower started there last week on the early morning shift But he didn't show up for work last night. Good. Where'd you get the tip the knife? You boys found didn't have any prints, but it had a brand on it We ran it down was taken from the cottage cafe Any address on this Robert long ed yeah got it from his boss rooming house in East first Landlady says he hasn't been home in two nights Now we wait Roaming house is staked out and so is the cottage cafe just in case long decides to show up for work this morning What time you got room error? Six minutes past four all right We've got every indication that Robert longs the man we're after his description fingerprints the knife footprint his size Maybe we're wrong. I don't think so. How about a motive Ed? I think Robert long likes to kill. He's thirsty for it None of the victims were criminally attacked. They were strangled bodies mutilated How about robbery? No two of the women he killed had money in their purses. He didn't touch it Well, what's next keeper back on the street figure out Alameda. He's third to College Street Keeping that around that area and work it back and forth until we're positive. He's not inside. I Think he is At ten minutes past 4 a.m. Ed Backstrand Ben and I left the crime lab and drove to the surrounded area It was still raining We passed several patrolmen from the reserve unit making the rounds They didn't look any more comfortable than we felt At Broadway and Alpine Street Ben and I got out and started patrolling on foot again Backstrand followed in the car to maintain a radio check I must have covered two dozen blocks and a half a dozen coffee counters before we got to the criterion restaurant and donut shop Few blocks up the street from the cottage cafe Hey skipper You want to take a minute for some hot coffee? I'll keep an ear on radio You two go ahead. You look drenched.  Thanks cream no sugar All right Ed. Come on Ben Place is empty. Yeah. Yes, gentlemen. What'll it be hot coffee? Yeah, there's two of us here Can you fix up one to go sure thing? Say on that one to go cream no sugar, right? Say you fellas cops. Yeah, why no offense just wondering Here you are Thank you Copping uniform was around a couple hours ago wanted to know if I'd seen some guy who was looking for tall about a hundred ninety pounds Mistakes about 30 years old. Yeah, that's a description. He gave me he was looking for the guy So are we say that's good that other cop came in right at my busiest time a little after two when the bars closed You know, it gets pretty rushed and I didn't have much time to think so it just said no then after the cop left I remembered you saw a man answering that description tonight. Yeah, I would have told the cop But I was rushed. You know how it is no time to think and then I remembered are you sure well I'm sure all right Whoever he is. He's a lady killer. What do you mean?  Do you remember what she looked like? Oh, nice looking dame not beautiful. You know more on the on the cute side Ben you got that morgue shot. Oh, yeah, you're here to you. Thanks Here's a picture. That's the girl. Let's see Yeah, that's her who is she? I don't know mister down at the morgue. They call her Jane Doe number seven Just by accident we'd come across a concrete lead on the killer's method of operation The picture we showed the man on the donut shop was a shot of the strangler's first victim the night before Evidently the killer would enter a bar coffee shop or restaurant Strike up a conversation with a woman make friends with her either buy or drinks or invite her to a bar in the neighborhood and then The rest of the puzzle was still unsolved We went back to the cottage cafe and checked with the men on stakeout not a sign of them chief How are you men covering the place back stir up in front in the booth across in the cash register? Limans back with the dishwashers. I'm at the counter when's long due to report for work Dave at five about 20 minutes to go you're lucky you're inside it's wet out there you look at all right Davis We'll be around about five right chief Let's get back in the car Work to skiver who's the next two blocks, but don't go too far if long shows up for work this morning We want to be around The next 10 minutes dragged by the rain kept on Backstrand chewed nervously on a cigar At South Flower on 1st Street the sewers were clogged with street refuse the rain backed up and filled the intersection a Group of aircraft workers huddled together in a doorway on one corner waiting for the bus It's cold and damp. I Opened one of the back windows in the car to get some fresh air in Off in the distance and close by you could hear the sounds of a big city waking up slow to a rainy January morning It was eight minutes to fire attention all units Attention all units at 780 East Main a restaurant man answering description of murder suspect About 10 blocks away and who's gonna cover the men at the cottage cafe This is a blind lead it won't take as long to find out they can handle it alone if they have to hang on Look out we're skidding That was a close one Ben. Yeah This is the guy. I owe you five bucks, right? Yeah Step on it Romero, you're more blocks keeper watch this man next one to the left got it That's the joint up ahead there. I'd watch your step and don't take chances. Don't play with it right here.  Look out. It's not that good. Come on Joe. All right All right goes between the buildings stop or I'll shoot the next house. He ducked into the basement Right cover me. All right. Come on. He broke through the garage doors There's Davis Dave Dave he slipped through get down to the next corner ring the block Ben Ben did you follow him? All right on his tail that warehouse couple of lots over you went through the back There it is Joe. All right. Don't go in blind. Watch out All right, you haven't got a chance come on with your hands up. He's not stopping Joe. All right, let's fan out All right, Ben cover me. I'm going for the door. All right, Ben. Come on. You're clear. You spot him. He's in a good spot. Let's move He's up in the loft. Come on. Let's head for the stairs. Would you? Easy not a sign then look out that packing chance. Let's get that punk now. We got Joe All right, then we'll blast y'all they're waiting for you with Tommy guns out there. They'll cut you down Joe just got the door open. He's making a break for it. It's crazy. He's trying to shoot his way out. He asked for it Yeah, let's take a look Maybe he just didn't like women. Maybe this is him, huh? Even the scratches that go made on his face description match five feet ten 192 pounds dark hair dark eyes age 29 Robert long killer you have just heard is true Only the names were changed to protect the innocent You have just heard the 10th in a new series of authentic cases transcribed from official files Technical advice for dragnet is furnished by the Los Angeles Police Department Tonight's program is dedicated to Detective Louis A. Abbott of the Chicago Police Department Who on the afternoon of March 3rd? 1947 gave his life so that yours might be more secure Dragnet came to you from Los Angeles If you enjoyed tonight's production of dragnet you'll probably want to listen this Saturday evening to a pair of adventure shows Featuring two well-known Hollywood personalities. 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You know what? I want to be known in the market. I want to be a celebrity in my space. Whatever the case is, everybody's always like, okay, Cody, how do I get more well-known? How do I get people to come and buy from me, inbound leads, et cetera?  It's educating the general public. It's putting up content on Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, even LinkedIn nowadays, right? So one of the things we did is we put out 13 posts on Facebook last week, okay? Eight were videos, three were live videos, and two were graphics, 13, almost two every single day. Also on YouTube, we released 13 videos. If we kept up that pace over the course of an entire year, that is 650 videos freaking and dropped on YouTube.com on our channel. If you think about that, think about that and pause for a quick second. There's a lot of people in our space that want to help agents with marketing and training and leads, et cetera, right? Or come to events. But who else in my space, our space, is dropping 650 videos onto YouTube in one calendar year? No one. Maybe that's why, and maybe there's a lot of behind the scenes stuff that we know what we're doing on thumbnails, solid tags, right? Knowing what to do, putting out content, having a six studio that we've probably spent 100 K building out. Like, yeah, there's a lot of other things that we're doing. Yeah, we have a marketing team of 10 people that are just constantly pumping out content all the time, blogs, videos, posts, emails, et cetera. Most people aren't doing enough to get well known. Like, you throwing up a tweet once a week ain't going to do it, right?  Is anyone going to notice? But maybe when you drop 650 videos in it, this massive freaking pond, maybe they'll have some ripple effect from that, right?  Influencer, right? We talk about this on insurance influencers every Friday. At the end of the day, if you want to be more well known, you need to be branding yourself. You need to be using video, you need to be hiring our video team on retainer by project, right? We're building out a media company to help insurance companies because most people's YouTube and their videos and their thumbnails and their branding and their content and their posts and everything else is not good enough to get attention from the whole market. I've been doing this over the last three and a half years. We've been doing it hard for the last 18 months and we believe that, yeah, we haven't mastered it. We're continuing to get better. But we believe that it's the best way for you to own a market and a space.


So thank you. I'll have another start. Just one thing I'd like to say right at the beginning isn't the DXLAB project, it's the DXLAB. We're here for the long haul, not for the short term. This talk is about building the DXLAB from scratch and what this was and why we do it and then Paula will speak about what's been happening in the last six months and what we've produced. We'd love you to tweet about us and this is our handle and please join in the conversation. The State Library of New South Wales is the oldest library in Australia. The library's collections document the heritage of Australia and Oceania from discovery through settlement from the 15th to the 21st centuries. The collection is currently valued at $3.15 billion which makes it one of the most valuable collections in the country. Over the past 10 years the State Library of New South Wales has created a substantial amount of digital content through a major digitisation program focusing on manuscripts, artworks, photographic collections, oral histories, maps and published works. In 2013 the library receives substantial funding to ramp up this digitisation project which will result in around 20 million digitised images being made available progressively over the next decade. Substantially increasing global access to the library's collections and providing important benefits to regional areas and creative industries in particular. Some of the highlights from the digitisation program for 2014-15 include 53,000 World War I Dari pages which brings our total up to 168,000 digital pages. The scanning of the 2,800 digital slides from the Mars Dunphy Glass-Latin collection which are a collection mainly to do with establishing the national parks and bushwalking associations in New South Wales and Australia so they're beautiful. 13,073 digital digitised subdivision plans out of a collection of 40,000 of these subdivision plans which are the original sales material for the opening up of a large number of Sydney suburbs. We've digitised Shakespeare's First Folio, The Gould's Birds, a whole lot of manuscripts, subdivision plans as I said, Sydney Rock's area albums and the Mars Dunphy bushwalking maps and in conjunction with external partners we have digitised millions of newspaper pages, The Building Magazine, the New South Wales Government Gazette, six and a half thousand hours of oral history, four and a half thousand David Scott Mitchell books, 48,000 Tribune negatives and some Dixon pamphlets and I'm sorry I don't have a number for that one but we're working both internally and externally in mass digitisation progress. To add to this process in 2014 the library went through a major organisational restructure as if we didn't have enough to do. All the divisions and branches in the library were reviewed and realigned to better focus the library's workforce with the new strategic priorities of the organisation. As a result of this restructure the existing Digital Library Services Division which covered the areas of ICT service delivery, digitisation services and library systems and websites was recreated as the Digital Experience Division also known as DXD. This new division has four branches, client services and support which is a realignment of traditional ICT services delivery to include library systems and website support. Digitisation and imaging services which continues digitisation as before but with an expanded project management focus for the outsourced mass digitisation project. Digital project management to better manage the increased number of technology related projects and the new branch of digital strategy and innovation which I manage. This branch includes a strategy and a policy team, a business engagement team and the new DX Lab. The DX Lab is the first dedicated digital innovation lab in an Australian cultural heritage organisation. We are very proud to lead in this area and excited by the possibilities that this lab offers the library and its clients. We take our inspiration from the British Library and the New York Public Library labs but we are determined to put our own stamp on what we do and build our own relationships and partnerships with a wide variety of collaborators. The GLAM report of 2014 identified the need for organisations such as libraries to place innovation and digital services at the core of our business. The establishment of the lab as a permanent part of the digital experience division is a recognition by the library of the importance of this role of digital services and innovation in memory institutions. An important part of the success in the planning of the implementation of this lab has been the fabulous support it has received from the top down. We've had constant and total support from both Alex Byrne, the State Librarian and Robin Poir, the Director of DXD and the CIO and from all members of the Executive as well as enthusiastic reception from the idea for the idea from the Library Council which is the main governing board of the library and the Foundation more importantly who is the main fundraising body for the library. This combined with a wide-ranging program of staff engagement in the implementation process has meant we have been able to hit the ground running. It's absolutely been adopted by the library as a whole. The values and mission of the library are to of the lab, sorry, represent a new way of thinking for libraries. We aim to be proactive rather than reactive, inclusive and collaborative. The DX lab is also the next logical step in the library's digital excellence program. Three years into the mass digitisation project and on the eve of a deployment of a completely new collection management infrastructure and a totally rebuilt website the time is ripe for us to be focusing on finding new ways to deliver and interpret this massive amount of digital content. We want to work with both educators and students, writers, researchers, creatives and other interested glam sector partners. We aim to develop ideas and experiment with new technologies and platforms and find new ways of unlocking the treasures and secrets held within the library's vast collections and then revealing the gaps and strengths in our collections. We're also developing our tools for internal as well as external users so we're looking at projects and processes that show us ways of interpreting our collections and identifying the gaps and the strengths and then making decisions based on those processes. Our brief is about relationships and developing staff skills as well as our peers and to the public to connect and create using the fabulous content that is available in the library's vast collections. We believe that our role is to work with others to explore and stretch our boundaries in design and delivery of new interpretations of the collections to ensure that all our work is done in an open way as far as possible our code will be made from and in open source and most importantly will be surprising. On our hand over to Paula who will speak about the work we've been doing in the first six months of the DX lab. Thanks Kate. You can see why I took this job. It's amazing to be able to work with so much data that's being produced at the state library it's just it's a dream come true really and they pay me which is great. So we decided that we should probably kick off this you know thing this lab with some values because values are kind of good to work with and we came up with a few that we've started with and they are collaborate experiment create engage be open but also to surprise we're here to kind of find new ways into our collections into our data to experiment to learn to fail and to grow with our audiences in this space but also researchers and developers. We thought we should have some design principles and and these are ours at the moment. I think it's easy when you kind of start a lab to think about doing stuff just because it's kind of shiny new tech which is important but also I really feel that we're here to do stuff because it matters and because we have audiences we're here to design creatively and to design differently we've got all this data to work with and we've got people and collaborators to work with. We're not always going to finish things we're not going to take too long to make some stuff we're not always going to over bake we're kind of just in that kind of deep research and sometimes we may not even finish products. Obviously we're here to innovate but we're also here to iterate so if someone's built something that's pretty amazing we might use that code and apply it to our data and our services and maybe improve upon that and share that back and likewise people can do that with our stuff as well so everything we make we will put our code into our github account and I've heard a lot about this in the last couple of weeks here in another conference is this constant prototyping kind of space that we work in and I think it's really important in a lab space to to have this as a main aim and also perhaps leave room for others to finish things. So that's where we live all our stories on our site our little stories we're going to post as much as we can about our learnings our findings our tech what we found worked what we did what didn't so if you're looking for a little bit of the making of and the learnings from any kind of lab projects then please go here. So a bit about the team we're a very small team I have two developers and myself along with Kate the manager of our branch but we've managed to get a digital volunteer as well pretty quickly someone who knows the library and that's been really valuable but we're also a library wide team so all all the projects that we do involve a whole bunch of people across the organisation. We're just over six months old and we really wanted to make sure that we're bringing the library and the stuff with us on this kind of journey and I feel that that's really important from working in a bunch of different cultural organizations in in the digital space I know at times digital can be kind of like this shiny thing that happens on the side people can't penetrate always into the methodology the beginnings the findings of projects so we've spent a lot of time in our first six months engaging with staff who have great ideas who have deep research awesome spreadsheets and just really great stuff that they've been working on for years that they haven't had developers to kind of take to the next level so we've done a whole bunch of prototyping in the lab sessions we've done sneak peeks at products or tools actually in the interfaces that we're building to get their feedback on and we also do a whole bunch of brainstorming sessions so we've and it's an opt-in so we've had over 50 staff already attend brainstorming sessions and we kind of you know we value that and we we get our staff to give us values to give us ideas and we're mapping them against our new strategic plan which is collect connecting community and we're doing that in graph commons so it's a it's a living the internal gauging is a living kind of petri dish for us and it's really important also the importance of building relationships with other organizations and also our future researchers developers creatives so we we pretty quickly hosted a meet the data owners event with code for Australia a fabulous non-pro-profit organization who are doing great things in in really building up the capacity of developers and we hosted a very small event and we got our curators to come and talk about the deeper stories within the collections we got items out of the collection and we sat them down with a bunch of developers and we all kind of talked and ate pizza and it was pretty good fun sold out pretty quickly which was really interesting and really I guess the takeaway the takeaway for us was that they want face-to-face contact with us they want to talk to us about stories and about our data so they do interesting things people brought some VR stuff and was working with our collections and we invited them to speak so we found that really valuable we're also really interested in the services within the library and the kind of backer house stuff that you just don't get to see and you don't get to kind of hear about and you know this was just a quick kind of prototype of taking just the search results out of Google Analytics across many of our systems and kind of just saying you know you know it's strangely compelling we find we sit there on a Friday afternoon looking at this but you know can we turn this into something meaningful that's you know not personalized but just kind of gives gives our audiences perhaps on site the kind of that petri dish the living research that's happening in the library and project this in unusual places in our library and there's a lot of different services within the library that we're also looking at ways of visualizing within the six months we really wanted to kind of demo some projects that kind of would show when we launch where we were heading and this is our first data visualization actually it's called loom and we worked pretty rapidly to take an idea it was about six to seven weeks of from design to build and this is a I'm just going to run this it's we started off with 300 images from our collection around the city of Sydney so we had the Botanic Gardens Circular Key and Darling Harbour and what we wanted to do was take the data that is existing in our what we call our ACMS collection search online and just work with that and take it into a new tool a completely different non-search way of experiencing our collection and you do this through time it's in a WebGL environment the sort of 3D nature of it here you can see we've got I say this the library-ness I'm not allowed to say that back at the library that will kill me but we've got the nod to the library so you flip the library card and you kind of just you're searching we're not searching you're experiencing the collection via topics and tags you can jump out at any point to our ACMS you can favourite your stuff so you can come back to it later and really it's just basically taking that data and putting it into a new lens we thought oh that's kind of interesting you know this could be quite useful and we presented it to a room full of teachers who clapped like so loudly during the presentation we're like well it's that's interesting maybe we can make this better in some ways for teachers so yeah this is just you can see down the bottom we've got the topics and the tags there and you can certainly you can kind of get that sort of flow of content records via each relationship with the tags and topics so after kind of making this first lens we call it we decided that we wanted to demonstrate another lens with the same data so we've done this second phase which is an Atlas phase and it's obviously it's a map it's still in WebGL but what we tried to do was look at the same data but from a bird's eye view of the collection I'm just gonna see if we can do this which is never go live but instead of showing you a not so good screencast I'm going to actually go into the second phase of loom and we're working on a third phase as well okay so here we have just we call this the loosely phase the lens but up here on the second icon is actually the Atlas phase so again it's a WebGL environment but we think this is kind of cool because we we learn a whole bunch of stuff in making this about our collection and about data so really this is looking at again it's a timeline really from 1870 through to 2000 but what this is telling us and our audience is that it's location specific and time specific but it also is looking at what we have in data and in elevations so you can see that the elevations change over time according to what we have digitised and what is only available in the library so if I go to the rocks from 1950 these these are my results I've got 18 digitizer records out of a total of 24 so 75% digitised I can do all the same things that I can do in the first phase I can jump back out and go into the first phase of loom as well so really again you know for us I guess and what Ben was talking about yesterday is we weren't at we weren't anticipating finding the gaps or finding the spaces within our data but we have stumbled upon this kind of interesting birds-eye view and it looks at you know that whole of collection digitisation process so that's been a really interesting finding for us working with and producing this lens so I'm just going to go back so our third lens actually is looking at the metadata so the data that's associated with all these lenses and we're calling it index and I'm just going to quickly jump out here too so at the moment this is just a rough prototype that we've worked with Grumpy Sailor on all these projects great creative agency so these are all our subjects and topics for these decades in this prototype and you can actually see that we've linked every single subject and topic to Trove the awesome Trove so for each subject and topic we can jump out and go into Trove to all the related content that relates to our top subjects and topics so this is just a quick first pass for us at what how we introduce another data set into loom that has meaning that has value that's useful that takes our audience on a journey of research and then we kind of get into network just in the design phase of how we turn that into something meaningful so we're thinking about sort of this idea of particles so again you'll see at the top we'll have three lenses into the same data and then also we sort of got this capacity to blend with the onsite so we're looking at ways of actually turning loom into sort of a onsite physical experience particularly the loose leaf phase something that I'm really passionate about is working with people and collaborating with people who have really cool ideas and I think the labs in a position to really kind of support that in the sector being the only lab in a cultural heritage organization I feel we have a kind of duty to give back to our sector and to people working creatively in this field so we have a digital drop-in culture and we're kind of working that out as we go and we're really lucky that we had our first drop-in within the first six months with Erica Taylor from the Tweed Regional Museum she got a grant she came and spent two weeks in my lab with my developers we had this kind of crazy notion of a city regional comparison interface and this was just a rapid build we did make made some rough graphics at tip Chris McDowell that's our rough graphic literally and we wanted to use again the Trove API the E-Hive API and our API and just kind of see what we could do and so we made this Main Street it's very simple idea it's taking a slice of a hundred images out of E-Hive from the Tweed Regional Museum and displaying that next to the State Library's collection and in between that again we're pulling in the keywords from Trove newspapers that relate to Sydney and the Tweed and it's just a kind of a playful way of getting into the two data sets and it is literally just this comparison over time you can see the keywords pulling in each collection links out to the repository and there's some really lovely serendipitous things happening when you marry up the two collections and I guess what we learned from this was that yes we can build things quickly and we can smash things out and make them live and that's okay we can kind of change them work with them but also that we might be able to build this into a broader public library network Main Streets across New South Wales so maybe we can redesign this make it super easy for people to give us a hundred images of their collections so we've documented all of this and it's all on GitHub for people to use one really cool thing that happened out of this was very quickly after Main Street went live the mayor of the Tweed Shire Council in Wilhelmbar actually used Main Street because Erica had madly tagged all of the content from her museum in E Hive and they found this image which they used when they were building digging up the road in Wilhelmbar because they'd found an old bridge outside the police station so that was pretty cool and I guess I'm just going to close on this again giving back to the sector giving back to people is really important we're going to be we've just launched a fellowship and we really hope that we can do this yearly so that we can support people working in the digital humanities working creatively with data to come spend time in the lab next year so look out for that and that's us thank you