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.
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
Current status — extracting data from Library and Archives Canada’s 1915-1946 naturalisation database. Coming soon to my GLAM Workbench…
The full text of ‘Who belongs? Reading identity, ownership, and legitimacy’, my talk for #text2data last week, is now online. Includes slides, code, data & more… #dhhacks
My talk for #text2data at the National Library of Sweden looks at occurence of the words ‘aliens’ & ‘immigrants’ in @TroveAustralia newspapers, The Bulletin, & Hansard. The slides, code & data are online. #dhhacks
Back to school report — what I did on my holidays…
Another slide for Sweden — this one comparing words appearing before ‘aliens’ in The Bulletin and Commonwealth Hansard (1901-1980).
Working on my slides for From Text to Data in Stockholm this week…
