Using GLAM collections

https://slides.com/wragge/latrobe-hdr-2025

play along

1994–1997

2009–2012

2013–2015

2016–

https://glam-workbench.net/

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

https://updates.timsherratt.org

GLAM is...

• Galleries

• Libraries

• Archives

• Museums

Lots of data becoming available, but how do we access it?

What even is 'access'?

Exploring access

from PDFs to searchable database

https://glam-workbench.net/tasmanian-post-office-directories/

🔭 explore

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-journals/bulletin-cartoons-collection/

• 3,471 cartoons
• 1886 to 1952

• 11 million records
• 279 datasets
• 10 organisations

https://glam-workbench.net/name-search/

https://historichansard.net

more coming soon!

https://ardc.edu.au/project/ardc-community-data-lab/

https://github.com/wragge/hansard-xml

taming Trove

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

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/Save-Trove-newspaper-article-as-image-app/

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/accessing-data/how-to/download-higher-resolution-images.html

downloading images

more digitised content

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

GLAM data is...

• collection metadata
• text
• images, sound, & video
• 3d models
• user generated
• born digital
• extracted & enriched
• & more...

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

sources of GLAM data

https://glam-workbench.net/glam-data-list/

• web sites
• APIs
• CSVs
• PDFs
• downloadable datasets
• online databases

collections as data

• shift scales
• find patterns
• extract features
• make connections

QueryPic

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

19 million articles

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2023/08/08/exploring-the-front.html

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/pathways/text/examples.html

https://www.realfaceofwhiteaustralia.net/faces/

See: Sherratt & Bagnall, 'The people inside' in Seeing the Past with Computers

The Real Face of White Australia

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2021/04/21/secrets-and-lives.html

#redactionart

https://github.com/wragge/diy-redactionart

https://wragge.github.io/federation-papers/

image workspaces

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/pathways/images/examples.html

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-maps/parse-coordinates/​

locating maps

Creating collections

Zotero

https://latrobe.libguides.com/reference-management/choosing

https://www.zotero.org

• 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

https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/08/22/new-zotero-translators.html

Tropy

https://tropy.org

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/pathways/images/examples.html

harvest newspaper articles

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/newspapers-and-gazettes/data/articles.html#article-text

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

getting data from RecordSearch

• metadata
• images
• PDFs

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

More GLAM Workbench examples

• Front covers of the Women's Weekly
• Newspapers from Papers Past
• Press releases from Parliament
• Tags applied by Trove users
• Radio National programs
• Text from archived web pages

https://glam-workbench.net/trove-maps/create-map-subsets/

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/pathways/geospatial/maps-to-ghap.html

maps by location

Sharing your research

Datasette

https://glam-workbench.net/glam-tools/datasette/

https://datasette.io

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/pathways/collections/collectionbuilder.html

https://everydayheritage.au/blog/from-the-archive-uncovering-the-everyday-heritage-of-chinese-tasmanians/

Omeka-S

https://omeka.org/s/

https://ardc.edu.au/project/ardc-community-data-lab/

Omeka-S developments!

https://hcommons.org

Being critical

Trove newspaper articles by year

Trove newspaper articles by year

What's in RecordSearch?

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

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

• openly licensed to encourage reuse
• use for your own research
• use in teaching & research training
• no need to ask for permission

book a chat

Tim Sherratt

email: tim@timsherratt.au

web: timsherratt.au

mastodon: @wragge@hcommons.social

updates: https://updates.timsherratt.org/