55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
- Bonegilla name index cards (A2751 & A2752): +42,434
- CMF Personnel Dossiers (B884): +10,150
- Aust Women’s Land Army personnel cards (C610): +961
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
55,633 items digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week. Including:
Newspapers added to Trove last week
Noticed that QueryPic was having a problem with some date queries. Should be fixed in the latest release of the Trove Newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench: glam-workbench.net/trove-new… #maintenance #researchinfrastructure
The Trove Newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated! Voilá was causing a problem in QueryPic, stopping results from being downloaded. A package update did the trick! Everything now updated & tested. glam-workbench.net/trove-new…
Some more #GLAMWorkbench maintenance – this app to download a high-res page images from Trove newspapers now doesn’t require an API key if you have a url, & some display problems have been fixed. trove-newspaper-apps.herokuapp.com/voila/ren…
The Trove Newspaper and Gazette Harvester section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated! No major changes to notebooks, just lots of background maintenance stuff such as updating packages, testing, linting notebooks etc. glam-workbench.net/trove-har…
Main changes to individual Trove newspapers last week:
+19,862 articles in Daily News (WA)
+10,822 articles in Dalgety’s Review (WA)
+13,352 articles in Manning River News… (NSW)
Changes to Trove newspapers last week:
+86,761 articles
+16,367 articles with corrections
+5,355 articles with tags
+417 articles with comments
42,472 files were digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week.
36,238 of these were migrant registration cards from Bonegilla (A2571 & A2572).
Here’s a screenshot of the top twenty series. More info: github.com/wragge/na…
I wrote up something for the #GLAMWorkbook on ‘Empty searches and hacking urls’: glam-workbook.net/url-hacki…
I’ve created a Zotero translator for the Libraries Tasmania catalogue. Using it, you can save metadata and digital resources to your own research database with a single click. Libraries Tasmania actually has three catalogues rolled into one – the main library catalogue, the archives catalogue, and the names index. The translator works across all three. Features include:
I’ve submitted the translator for inclusion in the official repository, but you’re welcome to take it for a test run in the meantime. Just follow these steps:
Let me know if you strike any problems. #dhhacks
Ok, I’ve submitted my Libraries Tasmania translator to the Zotero repository for inclusion. No doubt a bit of additional tweaking will be required. github.com/zotero/tr…
Getting to work migrating the Real Face of White Australia transcription site from scribeAPI (no longer maintained) to Zooniverse Panoptes. First the workflows and config, then the subjects, then the current transcription data…
It’s getting there – new Real Face of White Australia site using Datasette, IIIF, and Universal Viewer…
After much faffing about today I’ve got the latest version of the UniversalViewer building locally, and I also know how to listen for changes in the canvas index. Next, I have to do something about the CSS name clashes with Bulma…
Files digitised by the National Archives of Australia this week: 25,981
Top series:
+14,025 in B884 (CMF personnel dossiers)
+7,652 in A2572 (Bonegilla name index cards)
New in Trove this week:
Berrigan Advocate (NSW)
Tingha Spectator & North Western Journal (NSW)
Tingha Miner & North Western Advocate (NSW)
Boggy Camp Tingha & Bora Creek (NSW)
Major changes to Trove newspaper titles this week:
+30,713 in Queanbeyan Age (NSW, end date now 1944)
+10,014 in Daily News (WA)
+179 in Inverell Argus (NSW)