DIY Infrastructure

Building the GLAM Workbench

Open collections in DigitalNZ

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social

Play along!

https://slides.com/wragge/capos22

https://xkcd.com/2347

https://xkcd.com/2347

2011

2022

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/09/22/do-you-want.html

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/03/02/the-glam-workbench.html

• Make everything open

• Small parts, loosely coupled

• Automate the boring stuff

• Promote use and welcome collaboration

https://glam-workbench.net/about/#is-the-glam-workbench-sustainable

sustainability

openness

https://glam-workbench.net/

GLAM Workbench

gov.au subdomains

Explore open datasets

National Museum of Australia

Powerpoints from web archives

Covers from digitised journals

Newspapers via DigitalNZ

Museum of Victoria

• 100+ Jupyter notebooks
• Live code, text, images
• Same code, different views
• All in your browser!

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

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

visualising newspaper searches

QueryPic

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

jump in with Binder

one click to start

small parts, loosely coupled

automate the boring bits

automated!

plug & play!

• Binder

• Reclaim Cloud

• Nectar

• Local Docker

Reclaim Cloud

https://glam-workbench.net/using-reclaim-cloud/

Nectar

https://glam-workbench.net/using-nectar/

Docker

(Quay.io)

https://glam-workbench.net/using-docker/

Next?

https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Datasette

data sharing & exploration

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

Trove List to CollectionBuilder exhibition

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

Packaged code

for easy reuse

https://pypi.org/user/wragge/

a new GLAM Workbench repository

https://github.com/GLAM-Workbench/glam-workbench-template

configured for development & reuse

• basic software requirements
• GitHub actions
• container creation
• Reclaim Cloud config
• notebook testing
• converts README to notebook
• Zenodo integration
• versioning
• licence

Zenodo

preservation & citability

make everything open

promote use and welcome collaboration

DIY GLAM Workbench

https://glam-workbench.net/get-involved/developing-repositories/

add resources!

https://glam-workbench.net/get-involved/add-links/

improve the docs!

https://glam-workbench.net/get-involved/editing-documentation/

contribute code!

https://glam-workbench.net/get-involved/contribute-code/

https://glam-workbench.net/heritage-council-of-victoria/

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

https://glam-workbench.net/get-involved/

get involved!

https://github.com/sponsors/wragge

thanks!

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

Wikidata

Everyday Heritage

https://everydayheritage.au/

ask a question

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

watch a video

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAclcciEeCD2z2BWQ2r3xD_Q8c05HppfP

report a problem

https://github.com/GLAM-Workbench/glam-workbench.github.io/issues

book a chat

updates!

https://updates.timsherratt.org/categories/glamworkbench/

presentations!

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

https://xkcd.com/2347

make everything open

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social