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

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

Also amongst the latest batch of digitised journals on @TroveAustralia, 39 issues of Camp Ink from 1970 to 1977.

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There’s more literary journals digitised in @TroveAustralia as well. Including 18 issues of the Bookfellow from 1907.

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But wait, there’s more — the KCC Kennel Gazette was renamed, wait for it, Dogs. Another 94 issues from 1962 to 1969 in @TroveAustralia here.

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People, you need to know that @TroveAustralia has digitised 360 issues of the KCC Kennel Gazette from 1932 to 1962. 13/10 would browse.

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Updating my list of digitised journals on @TroveAustralia this morning and seeing what’s new. Highlights to follow…

I’ll be running some more @TroveAustralia workshops for @UniCanberraReD this year. On 13 May it’s ‘Trove tips & tricks’, followed on 27 May with ‘Trove as a platform for digital research & creativity’. See here for details.

#dhhacks — Save a page image from the State Archives of NSW's Bubonic Plague Register

So NSW State Archives has digitised the Register of Cases of Bubonic Plague 1900-1908. Great work! Unfortunately though, they’ve put the digitised page images in one of those annoying page-turnery things, without any obvious way of downloading them (please correct me if I’m wrong!). Even more annoyingly, the page-turnery thing disables your browser’s right click, so you can’t view and save individual images that way either. However, if you’re using Firefox there is an easy way to stop sites interfering with your mouse’s normal behaviour and restore your right click.

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I’ve updated the notebook for harvesting records from @archivesnz’s Archway database in my GLAM Workbench. I just used it to harvest more than 8,000 records from series 8333 relating to naturalisation. #dhhacks

Uh, ok — so an advanced search for keywords only in Archway gives me a maximum of 1000 results. But if I add a date range I can get 10,000 results.

Looks like I’ll be heading to the VALA Tech Camp in April to talk APIs. See you there!

New section added to my GLAM Workbench for the Queensland State Archives (@qsarchives). Includes a notebook to add series information into their Naturalisations 1851-1904 index. #dhhacks

So in case you’re wondering, the @qsarchives ‘Naturalisations 1851 to 1904’ index actually collates names from these 10 series (and therefore has multiple entries for a single person).

Whoops. Here’s the actual full list of countries of origin from the @nswarchives NSW naturalisations data (and not just the screenshot!).

Here’s the full list of countries of origin from the NSW naturalisations data, 1834-1903.

NSW naturalisations 1834 to 1903. The sudden rise in Chinese naturalisations followed the introduction of the poll tax. More restrictions soon followed… Using (deduped) naturalisations data from @nswarchives.

Suggestions of new topics and collections for my GLAM workbench are welcome!

Here’s an example dataset harvested from Library and Archives Canada’s naturalisation database. It’s all the people with ‘China’ as their country of origin, supplemented with wives and children (who are not included in a country search).

I’ve added a section for Library and Archives Canada to my GLAM workbench. The first notebook extracts records of people from a specific country from their naturalisations database and saves the results as a CSV file. #dhhacks