Trove Tuesday

Trove was launched in December 2009, making this month Trove’s 15th anniversary. From humble beginnings as an aggregator for a range of library services, Trove has grown "into a home for freely accessible cultural content that reflects our vibrant contemporary and historical cultures". Trove's vision is for Australians to have their culture at their fingertips – now and decades into the future. 

Today, Trove is one of Australia’s most popular websites with an enormous and diverse community of users. Significant to the development of the website are the Trove Partners, who contribute to the vast collections in Trove, and the 'Voluntroves', who help make the collections more searchable and accessible.

Trove evolved from a number of websites and databases, including the Australian Bibliographic Network, the web archive Pandora, Picture Australia and more.  The Australian Newspapers Beta service was released in July 2008, starting with 11 newspapers, including The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser, The Argus and The South Australian Advertiser. There are now over 700 newspapers with no plans to stop.

Text correcting has been a part of Trove since its first days, and in Trove’s 15-year history, Voluntrove text correctors has corrected over 513 million lines of text – and this number increases every single day.

If you think the text correcting numbers are huge, wait until you learn the size of the collections in Trove. There are over 6 billion records in Trove, contributed by around 900 Trove Partners across Australia. To learn more about Trove, you can visit the news page or subscribe to the monthly Trove Treasures newsletter to find out about what’s new in Trove.