Australian pilots, aviators, airmen, and flyers — 4,950 thumbnails from a search in @TroveAustralia’s newspapers combined into one very big, zoomable image.

Australian pilots, aviators, airmen, and flyers — 4,950 thumbnails from a search in @TroveAustralia’s newspapers combined into one very big, zoomable image.
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
So @TroveAustralia includes more than 370,000 press releases, speeches, and interview transcripts issued by Aust federal politicians & saved by the Parliamentary Library. Learn how to harvest metadata & full text to create your own datasets in this notebook. #dhhacks
Wow, there are now over 371,000 press releases, interview transcripts and more from the @ParlLibrary available through @TroveAustralia. Just working on a new notebook to harvest sets for research…
The final tally – after much tweaking I’ve downloaded OCRd text from 9,738 works in the @TroveAustralia books zone. This includes ephemera such as pamphlets and posters as well as more booky books. Here’s the full metadata, all the text files, & harvesting code. #dhhacks
I’m looking for books in @TroveAustralia, but there’s lots of ephemera (pamphlets, posters etc) in the book zone. So I tried grabbing the images of ‘books’ with one page & found some nice stuff including this collection of playbills. #dhhacks
After talking to @PrimahadiWijaya today about work at @MonashLing, I started harvesting metadata & full text from digitised books in @TroveAustralia. OCRd text from about 2,000 books downloaded so far. More soon… #dhhacks
What I did at #valatechcamp! Here’s a CSV with basic details of 7,719 digitised books available through @TroveAustralia. I’m not sure if they all have OCRd text available, but if they do I’ll attempt to download it once I’m back home.
TIL that the web pages for digitised works (like books and journal issues) on @TroveAustralia embed a lot of useful metadata that you can’t get through the API. Here’s how to extract it.
Just posting the link to my ‘Introducing APIs’ slides for #VALATechCamp again, so that they show up in my MicroBlog feed…
So, I’ve finally figured out a way to automatically generate nice-looking thumbnails from @TroveAustralia newspaper articles. Demo notebook here. #dhhacks
So I put the recent report into Australia’s national cultural institutions into the @TDHASSN instance of @VoyantTools. Here’s the contexts of the word ‘story’…
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…
Sneak preview of my GLAM CSV Explorer now live on @MyBinderTeam! Select one of 447 GLAM-related CSVs from @datagovau for analysis, or load your own. Coming soon to @TDHASSN. #dhhacks
Quick notebook to harvest GLAM datasets via the new(ish) @datagovau API. Includes 447 CSVs from 19 institutions.