GLAM Collections as Data

Tim Sherratt ・@wragge ・timsherratt.org

These slides: https://slides.com/wragge/hussdata/

Watch the video: https://vimeo.com/350981680

Collections as data

• Shift scales
• Find patterns
• Extract features
• Make connections

https://collectionsasdata.github.io/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

Trove newspaper search by place of publication

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

Newspaper articles with 'White Australia Policy' in their title

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

Harvest newspaper articles in bulk

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-harvester/

Words before 'aliens' in Australian newspapers

http://timsherratt.org/blog/who-belongs/

• computational narratives
• experimentation & learning
• tools & tutorials

Jupyter notebooks

• Binder
• Tinker
• SWAN (part of Cloudstor)
• CoLab
• nteract

In the cloud or on your desktop

https://glam-workbench.github.io/

GLAM Workbench

view static

run live

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-newspapers/

Static or live

What data?

https://github.com/GLAM-Workbench/glam-data-list

Sources of GLAM data

• Machine-readable but coding required for download

• Downloadable but not easily findable

• Structured but not downloadable

• Downloadable but in many separate pieces

Machine-readable but coding required for download

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-lists/

Machine-readable but coding required for download

https://glam-workbench.github.io/digitalnz/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/glam-data-portals/

Downloadable but not easily findable

Downloadable but not easily findable

https://glam-workbench.github.io/csv-explorer/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/recordsearch/

Structured but not downloadable

Structured but not downloadable

https://glam-workbench.github.io/naa-wap/

Structured but not downloadable

https://glam-workbench.github.io/recordsearch/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/nsw-state-archives/

Structured but not downloadable

Downloadable but in many separate pieces

https://glam-workbench.github.io/hansard/

https://glam-workbench.github.io/trove-journals/

Downloadable but in many separate pieces

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2019/05/09/over-the-last.html

Downloadable but in many separate pieces

https://timsherratt.org/