The Trove Newspaper and Gazette Harvester section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated! No major changes to notebooks, just lots of background maintenance stuff such as updating packages, testing, linting notebooks etc. glam-workbench.net/trove-har…
Main changes to individual Trove newspapers last week:
+19,862 articles in Daily News (WA)
+10,822 articles in Dalgety’s Review (WA)
+13,352 articles in Manning River News… (NSW)
Changes to Trove newspapers last week:
+86,761 articles
+16,367 articles with corrections
+5,355 articles with tags
+417 articles with comments
42,472 files were digitised by the National Archives of Australia last week.
36,238 of these were migrant registration cards from Bonegilla (A2571 & A2572).
Here’s a screenshot of the top twenty series. More info: github.com/wragge/na…
![A2571, Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla], 31307 files digitised; B884, Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, 4981 files digitised; A2572, Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla], 4931 files digitised; C610, Australian Women's Land Army - personnel cards, alphabetical series, 566 files digitised; J853, Architectural plans, annual single number series with alpha (denoting Papua New Guinea and discipline) prefix and/or alpha/numeric (denoting size and amendment) suffix, 292 files digitised; A9301, RAAF Personnel files of Non-Commissioned Officers (NCOs) and other ranks, 1921-1948, 188 files digitised; B883, Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1947, 56 files digitised; K1145, Certificates of Exemption from Dictation Test, annual certificate number order, 17 files digitised; SP551/1, Log books of HMC [Her Majesty's Colonial], HM [His/Her Majesty's] and HMA [Her Majesty's Australian] Ships, 9 files digitised; F1, Correspondence files, annual single number series [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 7 files digitised; A1196, Correspondence files, multiple number series [Class 501] [501-539] [Classified] [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 6 files digitised; B78, Alien registration documents, 6 files digitised; A12372, RAAF Personnel files - All Ranks [Main correspondence files series of the agency], 4 files digitised; SP1122/1, General correspondence files, multiple number series and annual single number with 'N' (New South Wales) prefix, 4 files digitised; A9300, RAAF Officers Personnel files, 1921-1948, 4 files digitised; MP508/1, General correspondence files, multiple number series, 3 files digitised; C321, Case files, annual single number series with 'N' (NSW) prefix, 3 files digitised; B2458, Army Personnel Files, multiple number series, 3 files digitised; K47, Correspondence files, annual single number series with 'W' prefix, 3 files digitised; PP892/1, Correspondence [client] files, annual single number series with 'W' prefix, 2 files digitised;](uploads/2022/95643c6958.png)
I wrote up something for the #GLAMWorkbook on ‘Empty searches and hacking urls’: glam-workbook.net/url-hacki…
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 – the main library catalogue, the archives catalogue, and the names index. The translator works across all three. Features include: Select and save items from a page of search results. Save individual items across the full range of formats.
Ok, I’ve submitted my Libraries Tasmania translator to the Zotero repository for inclusion. No doubt a bit of additional tweaking will be required. github.com/zotero/tr…
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)
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)
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)
Added to Trove newspapers this week:
+43,015 articles
+10,263 articles with corrections
+7,499 articles with tags
+243 articles with comments
If you have a dataset that you want to share as a searchable online database then check out Datasette – it’s a fabulous tool that provides an ever-growing range of options for exploring and publishing data. I particularly like how easy Datasette makes it to publish datasets on cloud services like Google’s Cloudrun and Heroku. A couple of weekends ago I migrated the TungWah Newspaper Index to Datasette. It’s now running on Heroku, and I can push updates to it in seconds.
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)
Major changes to individual Trove newspapers this week:
+52,543 articles from The Daily News (WA)
+22,316 articles from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)
Changes to Trove newspapers this week:
+74,859 articles
+15,852 articles with corrections
+8,668 articles with tags
+592 articles with comments
I’m thinking about the Trove Researcher Platform discussions & ways of integrating Trove with other apps and platforms (like the GLAM Workbench). As a simple demo I modifed my Trove Proxy app to convert a newspaper search url from the Trove web interface into an API query (using the trove-query-parser package). The proxy app then redirects you to the Trove API Console so you can see the results of the API query without needing a key.