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Getting to work migrating the Real Face of White Australia transcription site from scribeAPI (no longer maintained) to Zooniverse Panoptes.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
Using Datasette on Nectar
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
Convert your Trove newspaper searches to an API query with just one click!
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.
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)
This week’s changes in Trove newspapers:
+7,451 articles
+16,628 articles with corrections
+8,148 articles with tags
+491 articles with comments
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…
My Trove researcher platform wishlist
The ARDC is collecting user requirements for the Trove researcher platform for advanced research. This is a chance to start from scratch, and think about the types of data, tools, or interface enhancements that would support innovative research in the humanities and social sciences. The ARDC will be holding two public roundtables, on 13 and 20 May, to gather ideas. I created a list of possible API improvements in my response to last year’s draft plan, and thought it might be useful to expand that a bit, and add in a few other annoyances, possibilities, and long-held dreams.
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…