Updated! My notebook to upload digitised newspapers from @TroveAustralia to an @Omeka-S site has been improved — no longer trips over non-newspaper articles in Zotero collections, and does a check to avoid uploading existing articles. #dhhacks
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…
