Exploring the
GLAM Workbench
Tim Sherratt · @wragge
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GLAM collections
new perspectives
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We're all
digital historians now...
WWI effect
copyright cliff of death
Trove newspaper articles by year
2022
2011
Trove newspaper articles by year
340km of records
What's in RecordSearch?
47% of series have no item descriptions
that's 50km of records
QueryPic
telegraph
radio
one click to start!
Trove newspaper (& gazette) harvester
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metadata
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text
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images
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PDFs
ready to download
just does what it says
Getting data from RecordSearch
- metadata
- images
- PDFs
harvest a complete series!
Recycled ASIO redactions
Jupyter notebooks
editable code!
web app!
Run the GLAM Workbench where you want
- Binder (free but with limits)
- Reclaim Cloud (simple & scalable but $)
- Nectar (free for universities)
- On your own computer!
- More options coming?
simplest
more technical
Assembling data
Asking questions
Hacking heritage
Live documentation
Lots of GLAM data
peek inside!
Search for names
247 indexes
> 10 million records
Papers Past
QueryPic-ish
Web archives
ABC RN Programs
Commonwealth Hansard
Scissors
&
paste
The GLAM Workbench is...
- Free!
- Openly licensed to encourage reuse & modification
- Shared through GitHub
- Preserved in Zenodo
Use it, share it, change it!
Coming soon...
How you can help
- Some ways you can get involved!
- Spread the word!
- Integrate into workshops and training?
- Share ideas for new notebooks or data sources
- Report problems
- Improve the documentation
- Contribute code
- Create your own repository
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