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DIgital history Workshop
Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge
Follow along
Test your historical knowledge
Save Your Sources!
The wayback machine
Save with one click
PERMA.CC (some limits apply)
Zotero
Resurrecting the dead
A Trove-ing we will go
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
Saving and sharing your research
- Tags and lists (see the help)
- Zotero
- DIY Exhibition!
Big pictures
SEARCH INTERFACES LIE
Beware!
HANSARD BLACK HOLE
Collections as data
Historic hansard
Election speeches in voyant
radio national data
- Repository on GitHub
- In a word...
More things to try!
More to explore
Doing & making
- Explore digital methods & data with OzGLAM Workbench
- Make your own Trove Twitter bot
- Help transcribe at The Real Face of White Australia
- Help out at Zooniverse or make your own project
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
MY Stuff
Digital History Workshop, Hons ANU, 2018
By Tim Sherratt
