Living archaeologies of online collections

Tim Sherratt · @wragge

2022

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

1915

1954

https://timsherratt.org/shed/trove/graphs/

2011

  • HTML/JS charts
  • Plotly studio
  • Jupyter notebooks in Git
  • Convert to CSV
  • Standardise column names

https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals-historical

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6471544

Weekly updates!

https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals

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

Which newspapers when?

http://closedaccess.herokuapp.com/

What's can't you see in the NAA

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

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

Closed files 2015 to 2021

Pre-access recorder

Closed files 2020

DFAT

withheld pending advice

340km of records

Full series harvests

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

47% of series have no item descriptions

that's 50km of records

Weekly updates!

From March 2021 onwards...

https://github.com/wragge/naa-recently-digitised

https://glam-workbench.net/

Many other harvests...

Dedicated data repositories

Extract from code repo

doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6812932

Zenodo community

https://zenodo.org/communities/trove-historical-data/

Better ways?

Is it important?

Tim Sherratt

@wragge

https://glam-workbench.net/