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Using GLAM collections
play along
1994–1997
2009–2012
2013–2015
2016–
GLAM is...
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Galleries
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Libraries
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Archives
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Museums
Lots of data becoming available, but how do we access it?
What even is 'access'?
Exploring access
from PDFs to searchable database
🔭 explore
- 3,471 cartoons
- 1886 to 1952
- 11 million records
- 279 datasets
- 10 organisations
more coming soon!
taming Trove
downloading images
more digitised content
GLAM data is...
- collection metadata
- text
- images, sound, & video
- 3d models
- user generated
- born digital
- extracted & enriched
- & more...
Australian government agencies over time
sources of GLAM data
- web sites
- APIs
- CSVs
- PDFs
- downloadable datasets
- online databases
collections as data
- shift scales
- find patterns
- extract features
- make connections
QueryPic
telegraph
radio
19 million articles
https://www.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/faces/
See: Sherratt & Bagnall, 'The people inside' in Seeing the Past with Computers
The Real Face of White Australia
#redactionart
image workspaces
locating maps
Creating collections
Zotero
- Libraries Tasmania
- National Archives of Australia
- Trove
- National Gallery of Australia
- State Records Office of WA
- Public Record Office Victoria
- Queensland State Archives
- & others
Zotero translators for
Tropy
harvest newspaper articles
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permission required to use full text
getting data from RecordSearch
- metadata
- images
- PDFs
harvest a complete series!
More GLAM Workbench examples
maps by location
Sharing your research
Datasette
Omeka-S
Omeka-S developments!
Being critical
WWI effect
copyright cliff of death
Trove newspaper articles by year
2022
2011
Trove newspaper articles by year
340km of records
What's in RecordSearch?
47% of series have no item descriptions
that's 50km of records
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- openly licensed to encourage reuse
- use for your own research
- use in teaching & research training
- no need to ask for permission
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Using GLAM collections
Using GLAM collections
By Tim Sherratt
Using GLAM collections
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