Quick hacks & DIY data

Innovations for the discerning historian...

Tim Sherratt ・@wragge

Follow along
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https://slides.com/wragge/aha-ecr-workshop

Two
quick hacks

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NOW YOU CAN!

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https://gist.github.com/wragge/af8bd20a14005d267ffc759463bd832c

WONDER NO MORE!

https://gist.github.com/wragge/b2af9dc56f7cb0a9476b

ACT NOW AND WE'LL THROW IN...

Zotero translators for

• Trove newspapers
• NAA RecordSearch

Access is
constructed

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https://glam-workbench.github.io/

GLAM Workbench

YOU CAN EXPLORE...

Newspapers
over time

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-harvester/

Newspapers
in bulk

Harvest NAA data & images

https://glam-workbench.github.io/recordsearch/

GLAM

CSV Explorer

https://glam-workbench.github.io/csv-explorer/

Hansard
by year

https://glam-workbench.github.io/hansard/

Changes in
an archived
web page

https://glam-workbench.github.io/web-archives/

NMA collections in time & space

https://glam-workbench.github.io/nma/

Generate
recipes

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-books/

Scissors
& paste

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

READY-TO-GO DATA

GLAM

data sources

https://glam-workbench.github.io/glam-data-list/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-music/

ABC RN Programs

OCRd text from
journals

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-journals/

Bulletin cartoons

• 3,471 images
• 1886 to 1952

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-journals/

AND WHAT WOULD YOU EXPECT TO PAY?

• Free!
• Openly licensed to encourage reuse & modification
• Shared through GitHub
• Preserved in Zenodo
• Use it, share it, change it

$0.00

Need help?

https://ozglam.chat/c/glam-workbench/

You can help too...

• Spread the word!
• Share ideas for new notebooks or data sources
• Integrate into research training?

📣

Coming soon!

• More documentation
• More ways to run notebooks
• More notebooks!

See also...

• Digital tools and such like... (an opinionated list for Australian historians)
• Open access publishing for Australian historians

Tim Sherratt ・@wragge

https://glam-workbench.github.io/