Tim Sherratt - Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

20 Dec 2019

Archived via Zenodo – ‘Civilization versus the giant, winged lizards’ – a thing I wrote about the climate emergency in 2006. doi.org/10.5281/z…

Screenshot of Zenodo record
17 Dec 2019

One of my favourite things this year was finally publishing ‘The People Inside' with @baibi — describing the start of our @invisibleaus experiments eight years ago with records relating to the White Australia policy held by @naagovau. doi.org/10.5281/z…

20 Nov 2019

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

19 Nov 2019

Did you make a DIY Exhibition from a @TroveAustralia list using my GitHub starter kit? If so, it’s probably broken. Never fear, here’s how you can upgrade your exhibition to use version 2 of the Trove API. #DHHacks

07 Nov 2019

The death and (hopefully) resurrection of Trove Twitter bots

Today version 1 of the Trove API was decommissioned. As I explained elsewhere, this meant that a number of Trove Twitter bots also died. The problem is that version 2 of the API provides no easy way to randomly select records. Bots, and oth...
21 Oct 2019

Updated my NSW public holidays data to include a few extras proclaimed by the government: nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/wr…

09 Oct 2019

Creators and users of my Trove Twitter Bots, please read and share this update!

tl;dr Version 1 of the Trove API will be discontinued soon so Trove Twitter bots need to be upgraded. Unfortunately, Version 2 of the Trove API doesn’t support the random selection of resources, so the current behaviour of many bots will ch...
18 Sep 2019

Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring ways of recording dates for 70,000 digitised pages from Sydney Stock Exchnage records in the @TheANUArchives. Here’s the progress so far

16 Sep 2019

Here’s my attempt to calculate NSW holidays from 1900 to 1950. It’s probably incomplete, but it’s a start… nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/wr…

11 Sep 2019

A couple of years ago I gave a talk in which I tried to justify what I do as research. I was going to turn it into an article, but never did. So here’s ‘The multiplication of contexts’ as a blog post.

05 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!

04 Sep 2019

Crikey, my notebook for getting useful data out of @naagovau keeps growing! Now with sections on tackling large series, and harvesting ALL the images from digitised files. https://nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/GLAM-Workbench/recordsearch/blob/master/harvesting_items_from_a_search.ipynb

03 Sep 2019

Want to save searches for items in @naagovau’s RecordSearch as CSVs for exploration & analysis? This notebook walks through the process of constructing, managing, and saving data harvests. #dhhacks

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

25 Aug 2019

My app to browse & search @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals has been updated! Since 4 July, 112 new titles & 86,211 new articles have been added to Trove. Many of these new titles are parliamentary papers. Explore here: trove-titles.herokuapp.com #dhhacks

13 Aug 2019

Another WIP notebook in need of additional documentation… This one explores the stats around volunteer correction of OCR errors in @TroveAustralia’s newspapers. More to come!

13 Aug 2019

And this notebook uses TF-IDF to explore the OCRd text of a digitised journal from Trove. Get the top TF-IDF scores for each year across a journal’s life and see how they change. More documentation coming!

13 Aug 2019

This notebooks lets you download the OCRd text of a digitised journal from @TroveAustralia (via CloudStor) and then explore word frequencies over time. More documentation coming soon!

13 Aug 2019

A new notebook looking at the data about digitised journals on @TroveAustralia. #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

28 Jul 2019

The second new notebook looks at @TroveAustralia’s newspapers as a whole, visualising both by time and by state. Along the way it looks at favourites such as the WWI effect and the copyright cliff of death. #dhhacks

28 Jul 2019

Some brand new Jupyter notebooks for those interested in #ozhist & digital exploration of @TroveAustralia’s newspapers. The first walks through different ways of visualising newspaper searches over time. #dhhacks

27 Jul 2019

I’ve updated the @invisibleaus data repository with latest transcriptions/markings from White Australia Policy records in @naagovau.

25 Jul 2019

According to my last harvest, @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals comprise 31,216 separate issues. Here are the number of issues by year.

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.