60-615: The Illawarra Mercury is a daily newspaper serving the Illawarra region of New South Wales , Australia . It has been published since 1855, making it one of Australia's oldest newspapers and the second oldest regional newspaper in New South Wales. It has been published daily since December 1949, and has had no local daily competition since the 1960s. It has strong links to the Illawarra community. Under editor Peter Cullen,
120-458: A crowdfunding campaign. Also crowdfunded, the Australian feminist magazine The Dawn was included on International Women's Day 2012. As of 10 May 2020 , 23,498,368 newspaper pages and 2,026,782 government gazette pages were available to view. On 25 July 2008 the "Australian Newspapers Beta" service was released to the public as a standalone website and a year later became
180-681: A daily paper; this led to the newspaper changing its name to the Illawarra Daily Mercury , which lasted until 1954. In 1979 and after having dropped the "Daily" from its title the Illawarra Mercury officially became a metropolitan daily newspaper. One of the significant events of the newspaper includes the amalgamation with the Bulli Times and Port Kembla Pilot in February 1949. The paper also later merged with
240-451: A few vines and a uninterrupted herbaceous groundcover . The Illawarra-Shoalhaven subtropical rainforest lies in the region. For the purposes of Australian federal elections for the House of Representatives , the Illawarra region is contained within the electoral Divisions of Cunningham , Whitlam and the northern tip of Gilmore . For the purposes of New South Wales elections for
300-566: A fully integrated part of the newly launched Trove. The service contains millions of articles from 1803 onwards, with more content being added regularly. The website was the public face of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Project, a coordination of major libraries in Australia to convert historic newspapers to text-searchable digital files. The Australian Newspapers website allowed users to search
360-608: A major feature, allowing the public to change the searchable text. Many users have contributed tens of thousands of corrected lines, and some have contributed millions. As of January 2022 5.82% of articles have at least one correction. This collaborative participation allows users to give back to the service and over time improves the database's searchability. The text-correcting community and other Trove users have been referred to as "Trovites". The Australian Web Archive , created in March 2019, includes websites archived from 1996 until
420-721: A men's match between the Wollongong and Kiama Swim Clubs at Brighton Beach. The Kiama Swim Club prevailed, winning 3-0. Water polo is currently played at UOW Pool through the Illawarra Water Polo Club. Each year, Illawarra also compete at the NSW Country Club Championships, whereby the Illawarra U14's boys won in 2021. Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program Trove is an Australian online library database owned by
480-692: A mode of interaction to analyse, extract, visualise and play". The subsequent development of the GLAM Workbench aims to utilise such machine readable data. Since 2018 the Australian Academic and Research Network ( AARNet ) has provided a dedicated Jupyter Notebooks environment that enables researchers "easily explore and analyse data held in the National Library of Australia (and Cloudstor) using Jupyter Notebooks created and openly shared by Associate Professor Tim Sherratt via
540-604: A period of twelve years into a new single discovery interface that was released as a prototype in May 2009 for public comment before launching in November 2009 as Trove. It is continually updated to expand its reach. With the notable exception of the newspaper "zone", none of the material that appears in Trove search results is hosted by Trove itself. Instead, it indexes the content of its content partners' collection metadata and displays
600-617: A shallow lake formed when sediment built up at the entrance to a bay. The district extends from the southern hills of the Royal National Park in the north to the Shoalhaven River in the south, and contains the city of Wollongong , the fourth largest urban area in New South Wales. North of Wollongong the plain narrows to a small strip of land between the coast and the escarpment. At Coalcliff and Stanwell Park small valleys are formed allowing further settlement. To
660-505: Is also available. Several citation styles are automatically produced by the software, giving a stable URL to the edition, page or article-level for any newspaper. Misplaced Pages was closely integrated from the beginning of the project, making Trove the first GLAM website in the world to integrate the Misplaced Pages API into its product. Trove has continued to evolve and take on new services and collections. In 2012, Music Australia
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#1732772297096720-721: Is being built". It is now a collaboration between the National Library, Australia's State and Territory libraries and hundreds of other cultural and research institutions around Australia. It is an Australian online library database aggregator; a free faceted-search engine hosted by the National Library of Australia, in partnership with content providers, including members of the National and State Libraries Australia (NSLA). Trove "brings together content from libraries, museums, archives, repositories and other research and collecting organisations big and small" in order to help users find and use resources relating to Australia and therefore
780-471: Is historically semi-rural, but now defined by increasing urbanisation. The word " illawarra " is derived from the Aboriginal Tharawal word " allowrie ," also sometimes spelled as " elouera " or " eloura ." According to A. W. Reed , the word is variously translated as "pleasant place near the sea" or "high place near the sea." The prefix of " illa " is also known to mean "white clay;" with
840-544: Is kept flowing through and up to date. Trove's origins can be seen in the development of earlier services such as the Australian Bibliographic Network (ABN), a shared cataloguing service launched in 1981. The "Single Business Discovery Project" was launched in August 2008. The intention was to create a single point of entry for the public to the various online discovery services developed by
900-682: Is linked to Sydney in the north by several passes, a motorway ( Southern Freeway ) and an electric railway (see Illawarra railway line ); to the west by the Illawarra Highway and Picton Road; and to the south by the Princes Highway . At Albion Park Rail the Illawarra Regional Airport serves the region. The Illawarra Steelers Rugby league Football Club played in the NSWRL rugby league competition, then
960-577: Is one example. O'Farrell is a six-time winner of the Rotary cartoons award. The Illawarra Mercury in 1972 won two of the State’s leading newspaper awards – a W. A. Richard award for technical excellence in newspaper production and a "certificate of merit in journalism". The newspaper is available on microfilm at Wollongong City Library and the State Library of New South Wales. It has been digitised by
1020-895: Is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users. Based on antecedents dating back to 1996, the first version of Trove was released for public use in late 2009. It includes content from libraries, museums, archives , repositories and other organisations with a focus on Australia. It allows searching of catalogue entries of books in Australian libraries (some fully available online), academic and other journals, full-text searching of digitised archived newspapers, government gazettes and archived websites. It provides access to digitised images, maps, aggregated information about people and organisations, archived diaries and letters, and all born-digital content which has been deposited via National edeposit (NED). Searchable content also includes music, sound and videos , and transcripts of radio programs. With
1080-725: The Australian Academy of the Humanities and the National Trust (NSW) . Tim Sherratt, a former manager of Trove, warned in early 2016 that fewer collections would be added and that less digitised content would be available – "not quite a content freeze, but certainly a slowdown". Following extensive campaigning, including a public campaign on Twitter , Trove received a commitment of A$ 16.4 million in December 2016, spread over four years. By early 2020, with
1140-701: The British Library described Trove as "exemplary" – a "both-end choice" of deep rich interconnected archive. Digital humanities researcher and Trove manager Tim Sherratt noted that in relation to the Trove Application Programming Interface (API) "delivery of cultural heritage resources in a machine-readable form, whether through a custom API or as Linked Open Data , provides more than just improved access or possibilities for aggregation. It opens those resources to transformation. It empowers us to move beyond 'discovery' as
1200-474: The GLAM sector ) signed a statement of support for Trove, in which they warned that the budgetary cuts would "hamper the development of our world leading portal and will be a major obstacle to exposing the collections of smaller and regional institutions" and that "without additional funding, Trove will not fulfil its promise as the discovery site for all Australian cultural content". Similar statements were issued by
1260-549: The Liberal Party for the 2011 New South Wales state election . It has links to neither party. Alistair Langford-Wilson became editor in April 2012. The Illawarra Mercury is owned by Australian Community Media , though the newspaper is editorially independent. Fairfax Media became a major shareholder in 1962 only to later acquire the paper in 1969. Fairfax merged with Nine Entertainment in 2018. The Illawarra Mercury
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#17327722970961320-787: The Mercury was jocularly known as The Mockery among Illawarra residents for its poor copy editing, resulting in frequent typographical errors . As a result, it became a running gag on the ABC's Media Watch in the period when Stuart Littlemore hosted the programme. The Mercury is published in the standard Australian tabloid format, with each page having an approximate size of A3 . The Mercury has had several Walkley Award winners on staff, most recently journalists Mario Christodoulou (2008), Nicole Hasham and Laurel-Lee Roderick (2010), and photographer Sylvia Liber (2014). The paper has often supported Labor at state and federal elections, but backed
1380-587: The NRL , from 1982 to 1998, and currently forms one half of the St George Illawarra Dragons joint venture, who play six of their twelve home games at WIN Stadium in Wollongong. The Illawarra Steelers still field teams in the lower rugby league divisions. Many famous footballers, such as Bob Fulton , Graeme Langlands , Mick Cronin , Rod Wishart , Paul McGregor , Craig Fitzgibbon , Luke Bailey , Steve Roach , Garry Jack , Warren Ryan , and
1440-706: The NSW Legislative Assembly , the Illawarra region is contained within the electoral districts of Wollongong , Keira , Shellharbour , Heathcote , and Kiama . For the purposes of local government administration , the Illawarra region is contained within the cities of Wollongong , Shellharbour and the Municipality of Kiama . The main industries in the area have traditionally been farming, coal mining and steel making . Australia's largest steel-works, BlueScope , operates at Port Kembla . The area, especially around Port Kembla and Wollongong ,
1500-552: The National Library of Australia in which it holds partnerships with source providers National and State Libraries Australia , an aggregator and service which includes full text documents , digital images , bibliographic and holdings data of items which are not available digitally, and a free faceted-search engine as a discovery tool. The database includes archives , images, newspapers, official documents, archived websites , manuscripts and other types of data. it
1560-494: The South Coast region. It encompasses the two cities of Wollongong , Shellharbour and the coastal town of Kiama . Wollongong is the largest city of the Illawarra with a population of 240,000, then Shellharbour with a population of 70,000 and Kiama with a population of 10,000. These three cities have their own suburbs . Wollongong stretches from Otford in the north to Windang in the south, with Maddens Plains and Cordeaux in
1620-490: The South Coast Times in 1968. In 1981 the Illawarra Mercury acquired a new offset press that allowed the newspaper to be brought to life in full colour. As technology emerged an order was placed in 1988 for a new electronic colour scanner which would enhance the newspaper's production and appearance. It was the first newspaper in Australia to use the state-of-the-art Itek 210S scanner. In 2012 Fairfax relocated
1680-627: The University of Leeds calls it "that rare beast: a digital heritage platform with popular appeal"; "of the most successful of its kind among aggregators such as Europeana , the Digital Public Library of America and... DigitalNZ ". What distinguishes it from the other three is that it also delivers content, and engages with the general public, which has created a form of virtual community amongst its text correctors. Users can log in and thus create their own lists, and also correct
1740-585: The legal deposit provisions of the Copyright Act 1968 , as amended in 2017 to included such publications. These resources are identifiable by a display in the top right-hand corner in both the ebook and pdf viewers, saying "National edeposit collection". Many of these are readable and some are downloadable , depending on the access conditions. The site's content is split into "zones" designating different forms of content which can be searched all together, or separately. The book zone allows searching of
1800-494: The 'GLAM Workbench'." The site has been described as "a model for collaborative digitization projects and serves to inform cultural heritage institutions building both large and small digital collections". The reach of the newspaper archives makes the service attractive to genealogists and knitters . It is one of the most well-respected and accessed GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) services in Australia, with over 70,000 daily users. Dr Liz Stainforth of
1860-807: The ANBD are also uploaded into the WorldCat global union catalogue. The results can be filtered by format if searching for braille , audio books, theses or conference proceedings and also by decade and language of publication. A filter for Australian content is also provided. Trove allows text-searching of digitised historic newspapers, with the Newspapers zone replacing the previous "Australian Newspapers" website. It provides text-searchable access to over 700 historic Australian newspapers from each State and Territory. By 2014, over 13.5 million digitised newspaper pages had been made available through Trove as part of
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1920-669: The Australian Newspaper Plan (ANPlan), a "collaborative program to collect and preserve every newspaper published in Australia, guaranteeing public access" to these important historical records. The extent of digitised newspaper archives is wide reaching and includes now defunct publications, such as the Australian Home Companion and Band of Hope Journal and The Barrier Miner in New South Wales and The Argus in Victoria. It includes
1980-566: The Australian climate. The Illawarra Central Co-operative Dairy Factory was used by the Illawarra Central Co-operative Dairy Co. Ltd. for the intake of milk and cream from dairy farmers in the local area. Coal mining has been a key part to the Illawarra's economy for over 200 years. The southern part of the region has been a source of crushed-stone construction aggregate and railway track ballast material for over 140 years. The Illawarra region
2040-707: The Hawks through the NBL's Next Star program. In April 2020, LaMelo Ball and his business manager, Jermaine Jackson announced they had bought the Hawks. The Wollongong Wolves participated in the now defunct NSL , winning back to back premierships in 2000 and 2001. The Wolves were not selected for the NSL's replacement, the A-League , and instead chose to compete in the New South Wales Premier League under
2100-529: The National Library of Australia under its Newspaper Digitisation Program. The issues of this paper from 1856 to 1954 have been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia . Illawarra The Illawarra is a coastal region in the southeast of the Australian state of New South Wales . It is situated immediately south of Sydney and north of
2160-549: The PANDORA archive, the Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) and the National Library's ".au" domain collections, using a single interface in Trove which is publicly available. Trove has grown beyond its original aims, and has become "a community, a set of services, an aggregation of metadata , and a growing repository of full text digital resources" and "a platform on which new knowledge
2220-733: The Pacific Area Newspaper Publisher's association PANPA. In 2004 the Illawarra Mercury won the Walkley Award for Investigative Journalism and the Pacific Area Newspapers Publishers’ Association Marketing prize. Its editorial cartoonist, Vince O'Farrell , has won international awards for his work - his cartoon immediately after the 11 September 2001 attacks depicting tears rolling down the Statue of Liberty 's cheeks
2280-762: The Stewart brothers Brett and Glenn , have come from the Illawarra region. The Illawarra Hawks have represented the region (previously known as The Hawks and the Wollongong Hawks) since the foundation year of the NBL , 1979. They won the NBL championship in 2001 defeating the Townsville Crocs 2-1 in the best of 3 finals. They also finished as runners-up in 2005 and 2010 seasons. The team caught global attention when American teen sensation LaMelo Ball announced on ESPN's show The Jump that he will be joining
2340-480: The aggregated information in a relevance-ranked search result. The service is built using a variety of open source software. Trove provides a free, public Application Programming Interface (API). This allows developers to search across the records for books, images, maps, video, archives, music, sound, journal articles, newspaper articles and lists and to retrieve the associated metadata using XML and JSON encoding. The full text of digitised newspaper articles
2400-604: The coast known generally by the name of the Five Islands, but called by the natives " Illawarra ". The region consists of a grassy coastal plain, narrow in the north and wider in the south, bounded by the Tasman Sea on the east and the mountainous, almost impassable Illawarra escarpment (forming the eastern edge of the Southern Highlands plateau) to the west. In the middle of the region is Lake Illawarra,
2460-618: The collective catalogues of institutions findable in Libraries Australia using the Australian National Bibliographic Database (ANBD). It provides access to books, audio books , e-books , theses , conference proceedings and pamphlets listed in ANBD, which is a union catalogue of items held in Australian libraries and a national bibliographic database of resources including Australian online publications. Bibliographic records from
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2520-531: The content is Australian-focused. Much of the material may be difficult to retrieve with other search tools, for example in cases where it is part of the deep web , including records held in collection databases, or in projects such as the PANDORA web archive , Australian Research Online, Australian National Bibliographic Database and others mentioned above. Since 2019, Trove has included access to all electronic documents deposited by Australian publishers under
2580-456: The database of digitised newspapers from 1803 to 1954 which are now in the public domain . The newspapers (frequently microfiche or other photographic facsimiles) were scanned and the text from the articles has been captured by optical character recognition (OCR) to facilitate easy searching, but it contains many OCR errors, often due to poor quality facsimiles. Since August 2008 the system has incorporated crowdsourced text-correction as
2640-480: The earliest published Australian newspaper, the Sydney Gazette (which dates to 1803), and some community language newspapers. Also included is The Australian Women's Weekly . The Canberra Times is the only major newspaper available beyond 1957. It allowed publication of its in-copyright archive up to 1995 as part of the "centenary of Canberra" in 2013, and the digitisation costs were raised with
2700-466: The editorial production, involving subeditors and page layout, of Illawarra Mercury to New Zealand. Despite being marketed towards residents of the Illawarra and surrounding regions, it can be purchased throughout the Sydney metropolitan region where it is popular due to the high quality of its horse-racing and sport coverage. In 2005 The Mercury was named Newspaper of the year 20,000-50,000 circ. by
2760-423: The exception of the digitised newspapers, none of the contents is hosted by Trove itself, which indexes the content of its partners' collection metadata , formats and manages it, and displays the aggregated information in a relevance-ranked search result. In the wake of government funding cuts since 2015, the National Library and other organisations have been struggling to keep up with ensuring that content on Trove
2820-526: The library between 1997 and 2008, including: The service developed by the project was called Single Business Discovery Service , and also briefly known by the staff as Girt . The name Trove was suggested by a staff member, with the associations of a treasure trove and the French verb trouver (to find or discover). The key features of the service were designed to create a faceted search system specifically for Australian content. Tight integration with
2880-570: The name Wollongong FC . The Wolves organisation collapsed in 2008, and was taken over by Wollongong Community Football Club . The Wolves have continued to play in the New South Wales Premier League. Cricket has also been played in the Illawarra for at least one hundred and fifty years with the Keira Cricket Club being founded in 1862. The first recorded match of water polo in the Illawarra came in 1894, in
2940-620: The present. This is the primary search portal of the PANDORA web-archiving service, and also includes the Australian Government Web Archive (AGWA) as well as websites from the ".au" domain , which are collected annually through large crawl harvests . (In order of presentation along the top tab.) In a keynote address to the 14th National Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) Conference in Melbourne in 2014, Roly Keating , Chief Executive of
3000-431: The provider databases has allowed "Find and Get" functions (e.g. viewing digitally, borrowing, buying, copying). Important extra features include the provision of a "check copyright" tool and persistent identifiers (which enables stable URLs). The first version of Trove was released to the public in late 2009. The National Library of Australia combined eight different online discovery tools that had been developed over
3060-700: The region include Eucalyptus tereticornis , Eucalyptus eugenioides , Eucalyptus longifolia , Eucalyptus bosistoana and Melaleuca decora . Shrub species include Acacia mearnsii , Dodonaea viscosa and as well as the endangered orchard Pterostylis gibbosa . The wet elevated areas of the Illawarra, where rainfall exceeds 1300mm, are within the Southern Lowland Wet Sclerophyll Forests and Southern Escarpment Wet Sclerophyll Forests biomes which generally feature tall, compact eucalyptus forests 30m-60m tall and understorey that include moist shrubs, tree ferns ,
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#17327722970963120-678: The south it widens, and becomes increasingly hillier before reaching Stockyard Mountain, a long divide between the main plain and the Jamberoo Valley, which stretches until it reaches Kiama . South of Kiama is Saddleback Mountain and south of that the Shoalhaven plains and the outcrop of Coolangatta Mountain. Ecologically, the coastal grassy region of the Illawarra is within the Illawarra Lowlands Grassy Woodland biome. Characteristic tree species in
3180-457: The suffix " warra ," sometimes spelled as " wurra ," meaning "mountain" in the local indigenous language. George Bass and Matthew Flinders were the first Europeans to visit the area, with Flinders recording that it 'was called " Allowrie " by the natives'. For the period around 1806, the region was called "Five Islands"; referring to the group of five islands off Red Point. In 1817 Governor Macquarie , referring to region, wrote: 'part of
3240-435: The surge in demand for all types of digital services, the National Library was having to cope with increasingly dwindling staff resources to develop services on Trove and National edeposit, and undertook a restructure of its staffing and operations. The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald revealed in 2022 that the current funding arrangements for Trove would cease at the end of June 2023, leading to its closure. In April, it
3300-513: The text of newspapers scanned using Optical character recognition (OCR), with an honour board for the top correctors. International researchers also use Trove: a 2018 showed the site among the top 15 for external citations in the English-language version of Misplaced Pages. The width and breadth of its audience adds to its uniqueness. Trove received the 2011 Excellence in eGovernment Award and the 2011 Service Delivery Category Award. In
3360-824: The wake of the Australian Government 's 2015 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook Statement, Trove funding was cut with the result that the National Library of Australia would cease "aggregating content in Trove from museums and universities unless ... fully funded to do so". In addition, it was argued that the cuts would further "result in many smaller institutions across Australia being unable to afford to add their digital collections to this national knowledge infrastructure". Those smaller institutions would include local historical societies, clubs, schools, and commercial and public organisations, as well as private collections. In March 2016 ten major Australian galleries, libraries, archives and museums (commonly referred to as
3420-526: The west. The Illawarra region is characterised by three distinct districts: the north-central district, which is a contiguous urban sprawl centred on Lake Illawarra , the western district defined by the Illawarra escarpment , which leads up to the fringe of Greater Metropolitan Sydney including the Macarthur in the northwest, and to the Southern Highlands region in the southwest, which
3480-440: Was established by Thomas Garrett and W. F. Cahill in 1855. The first issue was printed as 8 large folio pages and was circulated on 8 October 1855. Initially the newspaper was published once a week then increased to twice weekly in 1929. During the 1930s the depression had a significant effect on the region and forced the newspaper to revert to a weekly publication. It wasn’t until 1950 that the newspaper increased its publication to
3540-416: Was integrated with Trove, and ceased to exist as a separate entity. In 2016, in collaboration with the State Library of New South Wales , Trove launched the Government Gazettes zone, and continues to collect the official gazettes of all levels of government ( Commonwealth and State and Territory ) where possible. In March 2019 PANDORA became part of the larger Australian Web Archive , which comprises
3600-410: Was once known for its mainly industrial jobs, but since the 1990s commerce has played an increasing role in the city, overtaking industry in many areas. Illawarra cattle were originally bred in Illawarra and are now Australia's 3rd largest breed in population. They are large dark red cows sometimes with white patches. They produce large amounts of high butter fat and high protein milk and are suited to
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