DIgital history Workshop

Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge

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Test your historical knowledge

Save Your Sources!

The wayback machine

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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

Simplifying search

COLLECTION of collections

Saving and sharing your research

Big pictures

SEARCH INTERFACES LIE

Beware!

HANSARD BLACK HOLE

Collections as data

Historic hansard

Election speeches in voyant

radio national data

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Doing & making

Some tools & resources

MY Stuff