Building the GLAM Workbench

Tim Sherratt ・@wragge

Follow along
⇣

https://slides.com/wragge/data-sculpting-2021

NAA: ST84/1, 1913/119/41-50

http://iabrowse.herokuapp.com/series/ST84-1/browse/

https://www.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/faces/

See: Sherratt & Bagnall, 'The people inside' in Seeing the Past with Computers

https://www.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/

https://transcribe.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/

https://github.com/wragge/realface-data

@InvisibleAus

Understanding access

https://insidestory.org.au/withheld-pending-advice/

http://closedaccess.herokuapp.com/

https://twitter.com/wragge/status/1344805120261832705

https://owebrowse.herokuapp.com/redactions/

https://owebrowse.herokuapp.com/redactions/tags/art/

https://github.com/wragge/diy-redactionart

Constructing access

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

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

See also: 'Hacking Heritage'

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

Skills?

Starting points?

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

The GLAM Workbench is...

• tools, tutorials, examples, hacks & ready-to-use data
• openly licensed and freely available through 41 GitHub repositories
• powered by Jupyter

code

chart

text

Jupyter notebook

The how & the why...

• run notebooks in your web browser
• live in the cloud
• learn while undertaking real research tasks
• see the possibilities...

Finding GLAM data

GLAM

data sources

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

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

Newspapers
in bulk

Harvest NAA data & images

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

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

ABC RN Programs

Text from web pages

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

OCRd text from
journals

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

Asking different questions

Newspapers
over time

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

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/

gov.au domains

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

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/49163906

NMA collections in time & space

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

Open collections in
DigitalNZ

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

Scissors
& paste

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

Hacking heritage

Newspaper articles as images

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

Random records

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

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

Live documentation

Explore APIs

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

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

Web archives

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

Pathways

• different users
• different views
• different environments

Quick start using Binder

Just one click for a live, customised computing environment

app

notebook

Different views

Beyond Binder

https://github.com/GLAM-Workbench/trove-newspaper-harvester

The GLAM Workbench is:

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

Tim Sherratt ・@wragge

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