My data file of public holidays in NSW from 1900-1950 has been updated – now including variations in the King’s Birthday holiday and extra days like VE Day. #dhhacks
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
The simple Trove proxy that you can use to get to download links for PDFs of newspaper articles from @TroveAustralia has been updated to Python 3, and Trove API version 2. It’s used in @Zotero and elsewhere… #dhhacks
I’ve added some more documentation to the Trove Newspaper Harvester page in the #GLAMWorkbench. Get your @TroveAustralia newspaper articles in bulk! #dhhacks #collectionsasdata
New section added to the #GLAMWorkbench with examples from @Library_Vic! #slvdata #dhhacks #collectionsasdata
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
New #GLAMWorkbench notebook! Download images from @Library_Vic using IIIF and Handle… #dhhacks
And for a taste of the recent additions to @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals, check out this thread.
Explore @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals with this simple app. Now updated with the latest additions to Trove, and a new page for government publications. #dhhacks
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
I’ve updated the repository of data transcribed from White Australia policy records in @naagovau. Remember to follow @invisibleaus for daily snapshots.
I’ve added a few updates to my ‘Digital tools and such like…’ list for Australian historians. Hope you find it useful! #ozhist
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
Ok, the LODBook Jekyll plugin is cleaned & commented enough for me to put it aside for a while and work on the theme and data structure. I also took the opportunity to improve the way context strings are created…
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!
Gathering together videos of past presentations. Here they are on YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAclcciEeCD3INz0o1t_E9-bkW_BWTmSv and Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/…
Archived via Zenodo – ‘Inigo Jones: the weather prophet’ – exploring our desire for certainty amidst a highly variable climate. doi.org/10.5281/z…
Archived via Zenodo – ‘Civilization versus the giant, winged lizards’ – a thing I wrote about the climate emergency in 2006. doi.org/10.5281/z…
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…
New #GLAMWorkbench section with examples of how to get random-ish works and newspaper articles from @TroveAustralia. #dhhacks
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
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...Updated my NSW public holidays data to include a few extras proclaimed by the government: nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/wr…
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...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…
