DIgital history Workshop
Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge
Test your historical knowledge
Make your own!
Help archive the web
The wayback machine
Save with one click
PERMA.CC (some limits apply)
Zotero
Record the Web
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AnnotaTE THE WEB
HYPOTHES.IS
Get annotating
- Use 'Paste a link' from Hypothesis site
- Install a bookmarklet or Chrome extension
- Drop a file onto DropDoc
- Open a web page or PDF
- Look for the side bar
- Select some text
- Add comments, tags & more
ONLINE & OFF
DEEP LINKING
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Advanced Trove-ing
WHAT IS TROVE?
- Newspapers & Government Gazettes
- Digitised books and journals
- A collection of collections
- A platform for development
NEWSPAPERS Everywhere (almost)
a variety of languages
| Query | Results | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| white OR australia | 40,855,944 | |
| white australia | 4,971,530 | Same as white AND australia |
| "white australia" | 136,327 | Search for phrase (with stemming) |
| text:"white australia" | 132,470 | Search for phrase (no stemming) |
| "white australia"~0 | 130,164 | Search for phrase (no extra words) |
| text:"white australia"~0 | 126,982 | Search for phrase (no extra words and no stemming) |
DE-fuzzifying your search
Other NLA digitised resources
- Books and journals – try searching for nuc:"ANL:DL"
- Try searching for "nla.obj" in Maps or Pictures
- Oral histories!
Simplifying search
COLLECTION of collections
- Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages
- ABC Radio National
- Institutional repositories (including theses)
- Parliamentary press releases
- Many museums, archives, research organisations, historical associations, & much more...
Saving and sharing your research
- Tags and lists (see the help)
- Zotero
- DIY Exhibition!
SEARCH INTERFACES LIE
It just works...?
TBE
Try it yourself
- search for 'tbe'
- play with the facets
HANSARD BLACK HOLE
Beware!
functions by quantity
functions by items digitised
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Create a Trove list and instant exhibition
Collections as data
Radio National programs
Historic Hansard
- ParlInfo
- The data!
- Historic Hansard (with Voyant & CSVs)
- The language of Hansard
- Interjections
- Who belongs?
The Real Face of White Australia
MORE DATA
From list to CSV
- Convert a list (run Jupyter notebook)
GLAM Workbench
Exploring Newspapers
Exploring Newspapers
- Trove Newspaper Harvester
- Explore the results
More things to try!
Doing & making
- Make your own Trove Twitter bot
- Help transcribe at The Real Face of White Australia
- Help out at Zooniverse or make your own project
- Explore Glitch
Some tools & resources
- The Programming Historian
- Tropy – manage your research photos
- Omeka – share your research collections
- Databasic – fun intro to data
- Voyant Tools – explore texts
- RAWGraphs – easy charts
- Palladio – explore historical data
- Digital Tools and such like...