Tim Sherratt

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

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…

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…

And so it starts… #GLAMWorkbench

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…

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!

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

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…

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

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).

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

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

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

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

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…

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