Tim Sherratt

Fun day talking to the @dhpanu team at ANU about digital history possibilities. Slides/links are all online.

Currently working on a CSV explorer to give researchers an overview of the contents of GLAM datasets. Sort of like WTFCSV, but in a Jupyter notebook…

A bit more progress. Having found columns with OpenCV, I can use Tesseract to help me find the rows…

After much OpenCV fiddling & tweaking, sorry… iteration, I’m pretty pleased with this. Columns and headers being detected accurately despite lots of variation in the images.

So right around now I think I’m talking (via video) about my adventures with #HistoricHansard for the ‘Between Cyberutopia and Cyberphobia’ workshop at @witswiser in South Africa. You can follow along: vimeo.com/321657685

More updates! Latest data and images from The Real Face of White Australia transcription project are up on GitHub. #dhhacks

I’ve finally updated the @TroveAustralia API Console to use version 2 of the API & https by default. (Also updated to Python3 & latest Heroku stack.) More examples coming soon… #dhhacks

Lots of exciting new stuff has been added to @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals in the last few months. To explore it all, head here and click on the ‘New titles’ button. #dhhacks

Art & Architecture: the journal of the Institute of Architects NSW, 51 issues from 1905 to 1912 now on @TroveAustralia.

Only 12 issues, but check out the fabulous covers on The New Triad from 1927-8. Now on @TroveAustralia.

Want some arts? 130 issues of RealTime from 1994 to 2016 now on @TroveAustralia.

Hey #ozhist, 295 issues of the journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society from 1918 to 1954 are now on @TroveAustralia.

Also amongst the latest batch of digitised journals on @TroveAustralia, 39 issues of Camp Ink from 1970 to 1977.

There’s more literary journals digitised in @TroveAustralia as well. Including 18 issues of the Bookfellow from 1907.

But wait, there’s more — the KCC Kennel Gazette was renamed, wait for it, Dogs. Another 94 issues from 1962 to 1969 in @TroveAustralia here.

People, you need to know that @TroveAustralia has digitised 360 issues of the KCC Kennel Gazette from 1932 to 1962. 13/10 would browse.

Updating my list of digitised journals on @TroveAustralia this morning and seeing what’s new. Highlights to follow…

I’ll be running some more @TroveAustralia workshops for @UniCanberraReD this year. On 13 May it’s ‘Trove tips & tricks’, followed on 27 May with ‘Trove as a platform for digital research & creativity’. See here for details.

I’ve updated the notebook for harvesting records from @archivesnz’s Archway database in my GLAM Workbench. I just used it to harvest more than 8,000 records from series 8333 relating to naturalisation. #dhhacks

Uh, ok — so an advanced search for keywords only in Archway gives me a maximum of 1000 results. But if I add a date range I can get 10,000 results.

Looks like I’ll be heading to the VALA Tech Camp in April to talk APIs. See you there!

New section added to my GLAM Workbench for the Queensland State Archives (@qsarchives). Includes a notebook to add series information into their Naturalisations 1851-1904 index. #dhhacks

So in case you’re wondering, the @qsarchives ‘Naturalisations 1851 to 1904’ index actually collates names from these 10 series (and therefore has multiple entries for a single person).

Whoops. Here’s the actual full list of countries of origin from the @nswarchives NSW naturalisations data (and not just the screenshot!).