Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

glamworkbench

12 Jul 2020

New in #GLAMWorkbench! After you’ve used the @TroveAustralia Newspaper Harvester to download lots & lots of articles, try exploring the results in Datasette. This notebook sets everything up, you can even add full text search & images! #dhhacks

29 Jun 2020

Download newspaper articles in bulk! The Trove Newspaper Harvester has been updated to work with the new @TroveAustralia interface. I’ve also added the ability to save articles as .jpg images! The easiest way to get started is via the #GLAMWorkbench. #dhhacks

Screenshot of Trove Harvester page in GLAM WorkbenchScreenshot of TroveHarvester web appDetails of image file naming schemeThumbnails of newspaper articles saved as images

27 May 2020

New GLAM Workbench section on web archives!

We tend to think of a web archive as a site we go to when links are broken – a useful fallback, rather than a source of new research data. But web archives don’t just store old web pages, they capture multiple versions of web resources over...
08 May 2020

Thanks to @NetPreserve, I’ve been spending time lately working on a set of web archive exploration notebooks for the #GLAMWorkbench. Here’s an example to create/compare screenshots of captures. #dhhacks

02 Apr 2020

The GLAM CSV Explorer has had a few updates — you can now filter by organisation, and upload your own CSV files! #GLAMWorkbench Try it live on Binder.

31 Mar 2020

Buildings might be closed, but the data is open – explore hundreds of datasets from Australian GLAM organisations!

For a couple of years I’ve been harvesting datasets created or published by Australian GLAM organisations through government data portals. I’ve just completed the latest harvest, and there’s now 369 datasets, containing 983 files, from 23 G...
11 Mar 2020

My harvest of OCRd text from @TroveAustralia digitised books, ephemera, and parliamentary papers has been updated! There’s now 19,795 text files (about 3gb) to explore! Harvesting details and links to browse/download files from Cloudstor are in the #GLAMWorkbench. #dhhacks

03 Mar 2020

I’ve added some more documentation to the Trove Newspaper Harvester page in the #GLAMWorkbench. Get your @TroveAustralia newspaper articles in bulk! #dhhacks #collectionsasdata

27 Feb 2020

New section added to the #GLAMWorkbench with examples from @Library_Vic! #slvdata #dhhacks #collectionsasdata

27 Feb 2020

More fun with @iiif_io and images from @library_vic – resize, rotate, crop and more! Try it out with this new notebook in the #GLAMWorkbench. #slvdata #dhhacks

26 Feb 2020

New #GLAMWorkbench notebook! Download images from @Library_Vic using IIIF and Handle… #dhhacks

21 Feb 2020

Want to save @TroveAustralia newspaper articles as images (that aren’t sliced up in annoying ways)? There’s an app for that in the #GLAMWorkbench. #dhhacks

17 Feb 2020

New ‘Trove images' section added to the #GLAMWorkbench! Here you’ll find my latest Jupyter notebook harvesting data about the use of standard licences & rights statements in Trove’s picture zone. #dhhacks

14 Feb 2020

Voting in the 2019 @dhawards is now open! Go and check out all the cool #DigitalHumanities projects from around the world. And while you’re there, you might like to vote for my #GLAMWorkbench in the ‘Tools’ category!

20 Nov 2019

New #GLAMWorkbench section with examples of how to get random-ish works and newspaper articles from @TroveAustralia. #dhhacks

04 Sep 2019

The @naagovau RecordSearch section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated with more notebooks to help you get Australian archives data in a usable form. glam-workbench.github.io/recordsea… Useful for #twitterstorians, #ozhist, & #govhack!

25 Aug 2019

I’ve updated my harvest of OCRd text from digitised journals in @TroveAustralia. The complete dataset now includes 33,035 issues from 720 titles – about 8gb of text to explore. Details in the #GLAMWorkbench: glam-workbench.github.io/trove-jou… #dhhacks

09 Aug 2019

There’s a new section of the GLAM Workbench devoted to the National Museum of Australia collection API! Harvest @nma data, then explore it by time and place. #dhhacks

24 Jul 2019

Updates to the Trove newspapers section of GLAM Workbench – adding links to app-ified versions of some notebooks, & direct links to @mybinderteam for everything. If you work with @TroveAustralia newspapers you might find it useful.

24 Jul 2019

Download & explore 1,499,259 rows of open data from NSW State Archives Online Indexes

NSW State Archives publishes a number of detailed indexes containing data manually extracted from their records. These provide additional entry points to the records, such as a person’s name, or a place. But they also provide useful data fo...
11 Jul 2019

New in GLAM Workbench! Notebooks to harvest, index, analyse, and aggregate transcripts of speeches & interviews by Australian prime ministers. Plus links to harvested data and aggregated files. #dhhacks

11 Jul 2019

Reorganising things a little at GLAM Workbench. @statelibrarynsw gets its own section. Hansard and @datagovau GLAM datasets now under ‘Australian government’. Making some space for further additions…

17 Jun 2019

Kicked off a new GLAM Workbench repository dedicated to @SLSA with a quick notebook hack to get higher res versions of digitised photos. #dhhacks

07 Jun 2019

Recent additions to the Trove Newspapers section of the GLAM Workbench: getting images from @TroveAustralia newspaper articles, and uploading article to @Omeka-S: glam-workbench.github.io/trove-new…

26 May 2019

More GLAM Workbench updates! More full text of Australian books! I’ve added the notebook & data from my harvest of @TroveAustralia books in the @InternetArchive. There’s metadata and text of 1,153 books to explore. #dhhacks