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

Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

01 May 2022

New articles available this week from specific Trove newspapers:

+39,296 from Daily News (WA)

+39,810 from Australian Jewish Herald (Vic)

+104,190 from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)

More: github.com/wragge/tr…

01 May 2022

Changes to Trove newspapers in the last week:

+211,393 articles available

+15,738 articles with corrections

+8,233 articles with tags

+499 articles with comments

More here: github.com/wragge/tr…

30 Apr 2022

And so it starts… #GLAMWorkbench

Screenshot of GLAM Workbook welcome page. Text states: 'This is a companion to the GLAM Workbench. Here you'll documentation, tips, tutorials, and exercises to help you work with digital collections from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (the GLAM sector).'
29 Apr 2022

Followed up my last FOI request about HASS research infrastructure to find out why the appendix was missing, & now it’s available! Includes an interesting (& selective) list of HASS infrastructure projects. www.dropbox.com/sh/uq7vz4…

28 Apr 2022

And with that I think I’ll call it quits for #DayofDH2022 in this part of the world. Time to go check the backyard for pademelons before turning in. Hope all the DH-y types around the world have an interesting, inspiring & productive day!

28 Apr 2022

Ok, I’ve created a new #GLAMWorkbench meta issue to try and bring together all the things I’m trying to do to improve & automate the code & documentation. This should help me keep track of things… github.com/GLAM-Work… #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

A couple of hours of #DayofDH2022 left – feeling a bit uninspired, so I’m going to do some pruning & reorganising of the #GLAMWorkbench issues list: github.com/GLAM-Work…

28 Apr 2022

Hmm, didn’t get any writing done and now it’s time to cook dinner for the family. Bit of a frustrating day really. Might do a bit of coding later. #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

Workspace photo for #DayofDH2022. Old iMac for the socials & meetings. Newish laptop running Pop!_Os for dev work. To my left is a big window facing the backyard through which I can see visiting rosellas (Green & Eastern).

Photograph of my desktop. There are three monitors - one iMac, and a laptop on a stand connected to an external monitor. In the foreground are my distance glasses and a notebook.
28 Apr 2022

Now after coding, bug chasing, meeting, & prototype demo, I have to try and get into a headspace to do some writing about government surveillance records in the National Archives of Australia. But first some late lunch! #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

Meeting and demo done. Love working with ANU Archives, & really excited about the latest version of the Sydney Stock Exchange database. Still WIP but you can play with the prototype here: sydney-stock-exchange-xqtkxtd5za-ts.a.run.app/stock_exc… #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

I’ve hit a bit of a brick wall with my Datasette deployment. I’m probably missing something obvious. Suggestions welcome… github.com/simonw/da… #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

And Cloudstor is down for maintenance. I suppose I wan’t be doing that demo then… #DayofDH2022

28 Apr 2022

Perhaps appropriately for #DayofDH2022, I’ve spent most of the morning trying to hunt down a bug. Everything works perfectly running locally, but fails mysteriously when deployed to the cloud…

26 Apr 2022

Micro.blog offers another alternative for people wanting more control over their socials. I’m posting this from my Micro account – it’ll be cross-posted to Mastodon & Twitter, saved to GitHub, syndicated via RSS, and accessible from updates.timsherratt.org

20 Apr 2022

Tracking Trove changes over time

I’ve been doing a bit of cleaning up, trying to make some old datasets more easily available. In particular I’ve been pulling together harvests of the number of newspaper articles in Trove by year and state. My first harvests date all the w...
03 Mar 2022

Adventures in FOI – HASS RDC Scoping Studies

So my FOI request to release the scoping studies that informed investments in the current round of ARDC-managed HASS research infrastructure development was partially successful. As I’ve previously noted, reports from the ARDC and Academy ...
02 Mar 2022

The GLAM Workbench wants you!

Over the past few months I’ve been doing a lot of behind-the-scenes work on the GLAM Workbench – automating, standardising, and documenting processes for developing and managing repositories. These sort of things ease the maintenance burden...
17 Feb 2022

Omeka S Tools – new Python package

Over the last couple of years I've been fiddling with bits of Python code to work with the Omeka S REST API. The Omeka S API is powerful, but the documentation is patchy, and doing basic things like uploading images can seem quite confusing...
29 Jan 2022

Zotero support in Australian GLAMs

Last year I started compiling information about the level of Zotero integration provided by Australian GLAM organisations though their online collections. The basic test is, can Zotero capture useful, structured information about an item fr...
28 Jan 2022

Testing, testing...

I regularly update the Python packages used in the different sections of the GLAM Workbench; though probably not as often as I should. Part of the problem is that once I've updated the packages, I have to run all the notebooks to make sure ...
09 Dec 2021

Some big pictures of newspapers in Trove and DigitalNZ

One of the things I really like about Jupyter is the fact that I can share notebooks in a variety of different formats. Tools like QueryPic can run as simple web apps using Voila, static versions of notebooks can be viewed using NBViewer, a...
09 Dec 2021

Exploring GLAM data at ResBaz

The video of my key story presentation at ResBaz Queensland (simulcast via ResBaz Sydney) is now available on Vimeo. In it, I explore some of the possibilities of GLAM data by retracing my own journey through WWI service records, The Real F...
01 Dec 2021

GLAM Workbench Nectar Cloud Application updated!

The newly-updated DigitalNZ and Te Papa sections of the GLAM Workbench have been added to the list of available repositories in the Nectar Research Cloud’s GLAM Workbench Application. This means you can create your very own version of these...
01 Dec 2021

DigitalNZ & Te Papa sections of the GLAMWorkbench updated!

In preparation for my talk at ResBaz Aotearoa, I updated the DigitalNZ and Te Papa sections of the GLAM Workbench. Most of the changes are related to management, maintenance, and integration of the repositories. Things like: Setting up Git...