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

Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

11 Apr 2019

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.

11 Apr 2019

Just posting the link to my ‘Introducing APIs’ slides for #VALATechCamp again, so that they show up in my MicroBlog feed…

07 Apr 2019

Hmm, it occurs to me that the method I used to generate newspaper article thumbnails from Trove, could also be used to extract illustrations (cartoons, drawings, photos etc)…

07 Apr 2019

So, I’ve finally figured out a way to automatically generate nice-looking thumbnails from @TroveAustralia newspaper articles. Demo notebook here. #dhhacks

06 Apr 2019

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’

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…

26 Mar 2019

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

26 Mar 2019

Having ripped out a lot of code and simplified a mess of conditionals, I think this CSV Explorer thingy is getting there…

25 Mar 2019

Now to load that new CSV of GLAM CSVs into my CSV Explorer…

25 Mar 2019

Quick notebook to harvest GLAM datasets via the new(ish) @datagovau API. Includes 447 CSVs from 19 institutions.

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23 Mar 2019

This is why we can’t have nice things…

22 Mar 2019

Still plenty to do, but my CSV Explorer is taking shape… (coming soon to @TDHASSN & elsewhere!)

I’ll be giving a demo at the @HumanitiesAU data summit on Friday.

Now with animated gif…

21 Mar 2019

Doesn’t take much to show when there’s a problem with dates in metadata… (Yep, post 1900 dates have all jumped 100 years into the future.)

20 Mar 2019

Fun day talking to the @dhpanu team at ANU about digital history possibilities. Slides/links are all online.

16 Mar 2019

Currently working on a CSV explorer to give researchers an overview of the contents of GLAM datasets. Sort of like WTFCSV, but in a Jupyter notebook…

12 Mar 2019

A bit more progress. Having found columns with OpenCV, I can use Tesseract to help me find the rows…

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11 Mar 2019

After much OpenCV fiddling & tweaking, sorry… iteration, I’m pretty pleased with this. Columns and headers being detected accurately despite lots of variation in the images.

08 Mar 2019

So right around now I think I’m talking (via video) about my adventures with #HistoricHansard for the ‘Between Cyberutopia and Cyberphobia’ workshop at @witswiser in South Africa. You can follow along: vimeo.com/321657685

07 Mar 2019

More updates! Latest data and images from The Real Face of White Australia transcription project are up on GitHub. #dhhacks

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07 Mar 2019

I’ve finally updated the @TroveAustralia API Console to use version 2 of the API & https by default. (Also updated to Python3 & latest Heroku stack.) More examples coming soon… #dhhacks

07 Mar 2019

Lots of exciting new stuff has been added to @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals in the last few months. To explore it all, head here and click on the ‘New titles’ button. #dhhacks

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07 Mar 2019

Art & Architecture: the journal of the Institute of Architects NSW, 51 issues from 1905 to 1912 now on @TroveAustralia.

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07 Mar 2019

Only 12 issues, but check out the fabulous covers on The New Triad from 1927-8. Now on @TroveAustralia.

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07 Mar 2019

Want some arts? 130 issues of RealTime from 1994 to 2016 now on @TroveAustralia.

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07 Mar 2019

Hey #ozhist, 295 issues of the journal of the Royal Australian Historical Society from 1918 to 1954 are now on @TroveAustralia.