Getting to work on the Trove Data Guide
The ARDC has started work on the development of a HASS Community Data Lab to support digital research in the humanities. I’m part of the team of contractors, and my work package is focused on the development of a Trove Data Guide. My aim is...Updated harvest of NSW State Archives indexes – more than 2 million rows of data!
The NSW State Archives (now part of Museums of History NSW) publishes a series of useful indexes to its collections. The indexes include basic data transcribed from the records, such as names, dates, and places, providing fine-grained acces...A big milestone, Trove contributor data, and the coming of API v3 – recent GLAM Workbench updates
There have been quite a few GLAM Workbench updates over the last month, here’s some notes. (See February’s update for more recent changes…) General developments After many months of work, all thirteen Trove repositories within the GLAM Wor...Maps, people, lists & more – recent updates to Trove resources in the GLAM Workbench
Once again I’ve gotten a bit behind in noting GLAM Workbench updates, so here’s a quick catch up on some Trove-related changes from the last couple of months. Trove API introduction The section that introduces the Trove API (or APIs!) hasn’...Real Face of White Australia – updated site to transcribe records from the National Archives of Australia
Back in 2017, I worked with students from my ‘Exploring Digital Heritage’ class at the University of Canberra to develop and launch a site to transcribe records from the National Archives of Australia relating to the administration of the W...Recent presentations – Library of Congress Data Jam, Everyday Heritage, Wikidata, and GLAM Workbench!
October and November brought a flurry of presentations from which I’m still recovering. Here’s a few details and links. Library of Congress Data Jam In October, the Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud project at the Library of Congress...The Australian history industry and the impact of digitisation (open access preprint chapter)
The Australian History Industry was published recently. Edited by Paul Ashton and Paula Hamilton, the book ‘explores the complex, multi-roomed house of Australian history’, exploring academic, school, and public history, the impact of digit...Recent updates to trove-newspaper-harvester and trove-newspaper-images
Catching up on some software package updates over the last few months. The trove-newspaper-harvester package is now at v0.6.5. Recent changes include: Fix to handle articles with missing metadata Don’t try to re-download existing text and ...Do you want your Trove newspaper articles in bulk? Meet the new Trove Newspaper Harvester Python package!
The Trove Newspaper Harvester has been around in different forms for more than a decade. It helps you download all the articles in a Trove newspaper search, opening up new possibilities for large-scale analysis. You can use it as a command-...From 48 PDFs to one searchable database – opening up the Tasmanian Post Office Directories with the GLAM Workbench
A few weeks ago I created a new search interface to the NSW Post Office Directories from 1886 to 1950. Since then, I’ve used the same process on the Sydney Telephone Directories from 1926 to 1954. Both of these publications had been digitis...Fresh harvest of OCRd text from Trove's digitised periodicals – 9gb of text to explore and analyse!
I’ve updated the GLAM Workbench’s harvest of OCRd text from Trove’s digitised periodicals. This is a completely fresh harvest, so should include any corrections made in recent months. It includes: 1,430 periodicals OCRd text from 41,645 is...Explore Trove's digitised newspapers by place
I’ve updated my map displaying places where Trove digitised newspapers were published or distributed. You can view all the places on single map – zoom in for more markers, and click on a marker for title details and a link back to Trove. If...Making NSW Postal Directories (and other digitised directories) easier to search with the GLAM Workbench and Datasette
As part of my work on the Everyday Heritage project I’m looking at how we can make better use of digitised collections to explore the everyday experiences woven around places such as Parramatta Road in Sydney. For example, the NSW Postal Di...Interested in Victorian shipwrecks? Kim Doyle and Mitchell Harrop have added a new notebook to the Heritage Council of Victoria section of the GLAM Workbench exploring shipwrecks in the Victorian Heritage Database: glam-workbench.net/heritage-…
Updates!
- troveharvester Python package updated to v0.5.1: github.com/wragge/tr…
- Trove Newspaper Harvester section of #GLAMWorkbench updated to v1.1.1 to use latest troveharvester: glam-workbench.net/trove-har…
Minor update to RecordSearch Data Scraper – now captures ‘institution title’ for agencies if it is present. pypi.org/project/r…
Many thanks to the British Library – sponsors of the GLAM Workbench’s web archives section!
You might have noticed some changes to the web archives section of the GLAM Workbench. I’m very excited to announce that the British Library is now sponsoring the web archives section! Many thanks to the British Library and the UK Web Archi...New GLAM data to search, visualise and explore using the GLAM Workbench!
There’s lots of GLAM data out there if you know where to look! For the past few years I’ve been harvesting a list of datasets published by Australian galleries, libraries, archives, and museums through open government data portals. I’ve jus...Zotero now saves links to digitised items in Trove from the NLA catalogue!
I’ve made a small change to the Zotero translator for the National Library of Australia’s catalogue. Now, if there’s a link to a digitised version of the work in Trove, that link will be saved in Zotero’s url field. This makes it quicker an...View embedded JSON metadata for Trove's digitised books and journals
The metadata for digitised books and journals in Trove can seem a bit sparse, but there’s quite a lot of useful metadata embedded within Trove’s web pages that isn’t displayed to users or made available through the Trove API. This notebook ...Where did all those NSW articles go? Trove Newspapers Data Dashboard update!
I was looking at my Trove Newspapers Data Dashboard again last night trying to figure out why the number of newspaper articles from NSW seemed to have dropped by more than 700,000 since my harvesting began. It took me a while to figure out,...Catching up – some recent GLAM Workbench updates!
There’s been lots of small updates to the GLAM Workbench over the last couple of months and I’ve fallen behind in sharing details. So here’s an omnibus list of everything I can remember… Data Weekly harvests of basic Trove newspaper data c...Calling all Tasmanian historians – you can now save resources from Libraries Tasmania into Zotero!
I’ve created a Zotero translator for the Libraries Tasmania catalogue. Using it, you can save metadata and digital resources to your own research database with a single click. Libraries Tasmania actually has three catalogues rolled into one...Updated dataset! Harvests of Trove list metadata from 2018, 2020, and 2022 are now available on Zenodo: doi.org/10.5281/z… Another addition to the growing collection of historical Trove data. #GLAMWorkbench
