Tim Sherratt

Getting to work migrating the Real Face of White Australia transcription site from scribeAPI (no longer maintained) to Zooniverse Panoptes. First the workflows and config, then the subjects, then the current transcription data…

It’s getting there – new Real Face of White Australia site using Datasette, IIIF, and Universal Viewer…

Ordering some #GLAMWorkbench stickers…

After much faffing about today I’ve got the latest version of the UniversalViewer building locally, and I also know how to listen for changes in the canvas index. Next, I have to do something about the CSS name clashes with Bulma…

Files digitised by the National Archives of Australia this week: 25,981

Top series:

+14,025 in B884 (CMF personnel dossiers)

+7,652 in A2572 (Bonegilla name index cards)

See: github.com/wragge/na…

New in Trove this week:

Berrigan Advocate (NSW)

Tingha Spectator & North Western Journal (NSW)

Tingha Miner & North Western Advocate (NSW)

Boggy Camp Tingha & Bora Creek (NSW)

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Major changes to Trove newspaper titles this week:

+30,713 in Queanbeyan Age (NSW, end date now 1944)

+10,014 in Daily News (WA)

+179 in Inverell Argus (NSW)

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Added to Trove newspapers this week:

+43,015 articles

+10,263 articles with corrections

+7,499 articles with tags

+243 articles with comments

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

This week the National Archives of Australia digitised 21,488 files:

+10,305 in B884 (CMF personnel dossiers)

+7,339 in A2572 & A2571 (Bonegilla name index cards)

+1,345 in A9301 (RAAF personnel files)

See: github.com/wragge/na…

Major changes to individual Trove newspapers this week:

+52,543 articles from The Daily News (WA)

+22,316 articles from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Changes to Trove newspapers this week:

+74,859 articles

+15,852 articles with corrections

+8,668 articles with tags

+592 articles with comments

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Also on tonight’s episode of ‘In GLAM This Week’, the NAA digitised 20,517 files. Of these:

13,850 were name index cards from the Bonegilla Migrant Camp (Series A2571 & A2572).

4,938 were CMF personnel files (Series B884)

See: github.com/wragge/na…

This week’s changes in Trove newspapers:

+7,451 articles

+16,628 articles with corrections

+8,148 articles with tags

+491 articles with comments

github.com/wragge/tr…

Another overdue maintenance task completed! The Tung Wah Newspaper index has been migrated from a custom Django app on a now defunct web host, to a nice, neat Datasette instance on Heroku. https://resources.chineseaustralia.org/tung_wah_newspaper_index

TIL you can do date maths in Trove. Searching for date:[NOW-10YEAR TO NOW] in newspapers & gazettes returns articles from the last 10 years. Try it: trove.nla.gov.au/search/ca…

Spending the evening updating the NAA section of the #GLAMWorkbench. Here’s a fresh harvest of the agency functions currently being used in RecordSearch… gist.github.com/wragge/d1…

This morning has been all bug hunting. But at least I’ve now found & fixed the problem, & released version 0.0.14 of the RecordSearch Data Scraper! https://github.com/wragge/recordsearch_data_scraper/releases/tag/v0.0.14 Also updated on Pypi.

Changes in Trove newspaper titles in the last week:

+26,731 articles from Daily News (WA)

+88,485 articles from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)

+6,810 articles from Dalgety’s Review (WA)

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Changes in Trove newspapers in the past week:

+124,404 articles available

+17,306 articles with corrections

+8,269 articles with tags

+523 articles with comments

See: github.com/wragge/tr…

Somewhat unexpectedly the US National Archives & Records Administration catalogue includes some historic photos of Tasmania… catalog.archives.gov/search

I’ve got a site, I suppose I need to add some content now… glam-workbook.net #GLAMWorkbook