Getting & using GLAM data

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social

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• Galleries

• Libraries

• Archives

• Museums

What is GLAM data?

• collections
• text
• images, sound, & video
• 3d models
• born-digital
• user-generated
• system information
• extracted & enriched
• & more!

How do you get GLAM data?

• APIs
• CSVs
• PDFs
• downloadable datasets
• online databases
• Zotero?
• Wikidata?

How do you find GLAM data?

https://glam-workbench.net/glam-data-list/

https://troveconsole.herokuapp.com/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-harvester/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/

GLAM data can be:

• incomplete
• inconsistent
• undocumented
• hard to find
• hard to access

But we can help!

• document code and methods
• build tools
• share datasets

https://trove-titles.herokuapp.com/

Trove's journal data:

• 'articles' via API
• issue text downloads from web interface
• issue list via web interface
• additional metadata embedded in html
• connecting titles, issues, articles, & pages?

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/journals-with-ocr/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/bulletin-cartoons-collection/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-maps/

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-maps/parse-coordinates/

https://glam-workbench.net/recordsearch/

https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/

• NSW Post Office Directories
  54 volumes, 1886-1950
• Sydney Telephone Directories
  44 volumes, 1926-1954
• Tasmanian Post Office Directories
  48 volumes, 1890-1948

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/create-text-db-indexed-by-line/

GLAM data has a history

Trove newspaper articles by year

Trove newspaper articles by year

https://wragge.github.io/trove-newspaper-totals/

What's in RecordSearch?

https://ardc.edu.au/project/hass-community-data-lab/

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social