Introducing PROVBot – sharing photos from Public Record Office Victoria
With poor old TroveNewsBot killed by the NLA, my Mastodon feed has had less GLAM goodness of late. To try and fill the void I’ve created PROVBot, sharing photos from the Public Record Office Victoria.
![Screen capture of a post by PROVBot. The text reads: B526 Various scenes of activities at Emily MacPherson Collage - Weaving, art, cookery, design, chemistry, etc – Subject : Emily MacPherson College Melbourne – part of VPRS14517, Negatives of Photographs [Publications Branch]. The text is accompanied by a black and white photograph of women using what appear to be looms.](https://cdn.uploads.micro.blog/8371/2025/screenshot-from-2025-04-09-11-50-21.png)
PROVBot makes use of the Public Record Office Victoria’s public API. At this stage it just selects and shares a random photograph once a day, but in the future I’ll probably add more features, such as the ability to respond to search queries.
You can find PROVBot on the Fediverse at https://wraggebots.net/@provbot. There’s also an RSS feed that you can pop into your preferred feed reader. The bot’s code is openly licensed and available on GitHub.