Building the GLAM Workbench
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https://www.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/faces/
See: Sherratt & Bagnall, 'The people inside' in Seeing the Past with Computers
Understanding access
Constructing access
Skills?
Starting points?
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
Newspapers
in bulk
Harvest NAA data & images
ABC RN Programs
Text from web pages
OCRd text from
journals
Asking different questions
Newspapers
over time
GLAM
CSV Explorer
Hansard
by year
Changes in
an archived
web page
gov.au domains
NMA collections in time & space
Open collections in
DigitalNZ
Scissors
& paste
Hacking heritage
Newspaper articles as images
Random records
Live documentation
Explore APIs
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
The GLAM Workbench is:
- Free!
- Openly licensed to encourage reuse & modification
- Shared through GitHub
- Preserved in Zenodo
- Use it, share it, change it
Building the GLAM Workbench Tim Sherratt ・ @wragge