DIY Infrastructure
Building the GLAM Workbench

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social
Play along!

fragility

impact
longevity


2011

2022


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Make everything open
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Small parts, loosely coupled
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Automate the boring stuff
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Promote use and welcome collaboration
sustainability?
sustainability
openness

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% recycled redactions from National Archives of Australia
scissors & paste
- 100+ Jupyter notebooks
- Live code, text, images
- Same code, different views
- All in your browser!








visualising newspaper searches
QueryPic
jump in with Binder


one click to start
small parts, loosely coupled
automate the boring bits

GitHub repo
Docker container


GitHub Action
automated!



Docker container
plug & play!
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Binder
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Reclaim Cloud
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Nectar
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Local Docker
more control
more technical knowledge

Reclaim Cloud

Nectar


Docker
(Quay.io)


Next?

Datasette

data sharing & exploration



Trove List to CollectionBuilder exhibition
Packaged code




for easy reuse

a new GLAM Workbench repository
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


add resources!


improve the docs!

contribute code!



generated from GitHub

get involved!



thanks!


Wikidata

Everyday Heritage
ask a question

watch a video


report a problem

book a chat



updates!

presentations!

value?
longevity?