Some overdue updates to the GLAM Workbench. First here’s details, data, and code from a harvest of GLAM datasets on @datagovau. Includes details of more than 400 CSV datasets. #dhhacks
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Over the last week I’ve been downloading editorial cartoons published in The Bulletin from @TroveAustralia. There’s 3,471 cartoons – at least one from every issue published between 4 Sep 1886 and 17 Sep 1952. And you can browse them all…
To make it easier to explore the images, I’ve compiled them into a series of PDFs – one PDF for each decade. The PDFs include lower resolution versions of the images together with their publication details and a link to Trove. They’re all available from DropBox:
- 1886 to 1889 (45mb PDF)
- 1890 to 1899 (139mb PDF)
- 1900 to 1909 (147mb PDF)
- 1910 to 1919 (153mb PDF)
- 1920 to 1929 (159mb PDF)
- 1930 to 1939 (151mb PDF)
- 1940 to 1949 (146mb PDF)
- 1950 to 1952 (42mb PDF)
The complete collection of high resolution images (about 60gb in total) can be downloaded from CloudStor. The names of each image file provide useful contextual metadata. For example, the file name 19330412-2774-nla.obj-606969767-7.jpg tells you:
19330412– the cartoon was published on 12 April 19332774– it was published in issue number 2774nla.obj-606969767– the Trove identifier for the issue, can be used to make a url eg[nla.gov.au/nla.obj-6...](https://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-606969767)7– on page 7
There’s some details of the method that I used to find the cartoons in this notebook. I’ve also documented everything in the Trove Journals section of my GLAM Workbench.
Be warned – the language, images, and ideas presented in The Bulletin were often racist, anti-Semitic, and sexist. You won’t have to look far within this collection to find something offensive. This was, after all, the journal whose slogan for many years was ‘Australia for the white man’. This is our history… #dhhacks
And now my GLAM Workbench has a ‘Trove Maps’ section to document examples and explorations using data from @TroveAustralia’s ‘map’ zone: glam-workbench.github.io/trove-map… Includes a list of 20,158 maps with high-res downloads. #dhhacks
I’ve been busy lately harvesting LOTS of full text data from @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals – so many opportunities for research! You should be able to get to all the code & data from the new Trove journals section of my GLAM Workbench. #dhhacks
I’ve added a section for the @TroveAustralia ‘book’ zone to the GLAM Workbench.
All 9,738 OCRd text files harvested from books, pamphlets and leaflets in @TroveAustralia’s ‘book' zone have been uploaded to @aarnet’s CloudStor for easy browsing/download. There’s also a 400mb zip file if you want the whole lot.
The harvesting method and code is available in this notebook. All this and more will be documented soon in my GLAM Workbench. #dhhacks
Train from Canberra to Melbourne booked for #VALATechCamp. I’ll be hanging around both days, so let me know if you’d like to chat about the GLAM Workbench, Jupyter, Trove data, or any of the other things I fiddle with…
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
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
Suggestions of new topics and collections for my GLAM workbench are welcome!
I’ve added a section for Library and Archives Canada to my GLAM workbench. The first notebook extracts records of people from a specific country from their naturalisations database and saves the results as a CSV file. #dhhacks
I’ve added a ‘save chart’ option to the QueryPic app in my GLAM Workbench. Visualise your searches in @TroveAustralia newspapers, then save the results as HTML for easy download. #dhhacks
One more and I’m done for the night… New GLAM Workbench page for the ‘Trove API introduction’ notebooks.
I’ve finished putting details of all the current GLAM Workbench repositories into the new documentation site. Still a few notebooks to migrate from the original workbench, but getting there! There’s about 50 Jupyter notebooks so far. #dhhacks
Added a ‘data’ section to the GLAM Workbench docs, with info on harvests from government data portals, as well as series from @naagovau relating to ASIO and the White Australia Policy.
And now a GLAM Workbench page for @Te_Papa…
Added a page for @ArchivesNZ’s Archway to the GLAM Workbench docs…
So here’s some fun things to do with @TroveAustralia newspapers… (via GLAM Workbench)
Ok, more documentation for you — page for the @DigitalNZ API in GLAM Workbench updated!
Slowly working my way through the documentation for my GLAM Workbench. Still lots to do, but I think the page for @naagovau’s RecordSearch is now up-to-date.
If there are APIs or other data sources you’d like me to add to my GLAM Workbench, feel free to create an issue. You could also describe what sorts of tools or examples using that data source would be useful.
New notebook added to the #GLAMWorkbench RecordSearch repository — get the basic details of agencies associated with all government functions used in @naagovau’s RecordSearch and save to a single JSON data file. View code and data. #dhhacks