Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

glamworkbench

22 Apr 2019

I’ve added a section for the @TroveAustralia ‘book’ zone to the GLAM Workbench.

22 Apr 2019

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

31 Mar 2019

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…

24 Feb 2019

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

21 Feb 2019

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

17 Feb 2019

Suggestions of new topics and collections for my GLAM workbench are welcome!

17 Feb 2019

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

15 Feb 2019

Current status — extracting data from Library and Archives Canada’s 1915-1946 naturalisation database. Coming soon to my GLAM Workbench…

01 Feb 2019

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

23 Jan 2019

One more and I’m done for the night… New GLAM Workbench page for the ‘Trove API introduction’ notebooks.

23 Jan 2019

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

23 Jan 2019

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.

23 Jan 2019

And now a GLAM Workbench page for @Te_Papa…

23 Jan 2019

Added a page for @ArchivesNZ’s Archway to the GLAM Workbench docs…

22 Jan 2019

So here’s some fun things to do with @TroveAustralia newspapers… (via GLAM Workbench)

22 Jan 2019

Ok, more documentation for you — page for the @DigitalNZ API in GLAM Workbench updated!

22 Jan 2019

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.

22 Jan 2019

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.

16 Jan 2019

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