DIgital history Workshop

Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge

Test your historical knowledge

Make your own!

Help archive the web

The wayback machine

Browser extensions for:

 

Added bonus – redirects dead links!

Save with one click

PERMA.CC (some limits apply)

Zotero

Record the Web

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AnnotaTE THE WEB

HYPOTHES.IS

Get annotating

  • Open a web page or PDF
  • Look for the side bar
  • Select some text
  • Add comments, tags & more

ONLINE & OFF

DEEP LINKING

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Advanced Trove-ing

WHAT IS TROVE?

  • Newspapers & Government Gazettes
  • Digitised books and journals
  • A collection of collections
  • A platform for development

NEWSPAPERS Everywhere (almost)

a variety of languages

Query Results Explanation
white OR australia 40,855,944
white australia 4,971,530 Same as white AND australia
"white australia" 136,327 Search for phrase (with stemming)
text:"white australia" 132,470 Search for phrase (no stemming)
"white australia"~0 130,164 Search for phrase (no extra words)
text:"white australia"~0 126,982 Search for phrase (no extra words and no stemming)

DE-fuzzifying your search

Other NLA digitised resources

Simplifying search

COLLECTION of collections

 

Saving and sharing your research

SEARCH INTERFACES LIE

It just works...?

TBE

Try it yourself

  • search for 'tbe'
  • play with the facets

HANSARD BLACK HOLE

Beware!

functions by quantity

functions by items digitised

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Create a Trove list and instant exhibition

Collections as data

Radio National programs

Historic Hansard

The Real Face of White Australia

MORE DATA

From list to CSV

GLAM Workbench

Exploring Newspapers

GLAM Workbench:

  • Map search results
  • Download page images
  • QueryPic deconstructed



 

Exploring Newspapers

GLAM Workbench:

  • Trove Newspaper Harvester
  • Explore the results

More things to try!

Doing & making

Some tools & resources

MY Stuff