Working with GLAM data

Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social

These slides

https://slides.com/wragge/rda-roadshow-hobart-2026

GLAM is...

Galleries
Libraries
Archives
Museums

30 years of GLAM data hacking

https://wraggelabs.com

GLAM data is...

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

available via...

APIs
CSVs
downloadable datasets
online databases

some Australian GLAM data

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

https://glam-workbench.net/glam-datasets-from-gov-portals/

GLAM data in government portals

29 datasets from Libraries Tasmania

GLAM data is...

messy
incomplete
inconsistent
richly human
accessible?

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

the meaning of access...

what's online?
what's not online?
how is it described?
can it be downloaded?
what format?
restrictions on use?
what skills do I need?

https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/newspapers-and-gazettes/newspaper-corpus.html

Trove newspaper articles per year

GLAM Workbench

https://glam-workbench.net

171 Jupyter notebooks
59 datasets
70 GitHub repositories

Trove Data Guide

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

challenges

lack of resources
communicating benefit
sustaining interest
developing skills
threats to openness

collections as data

https://www.rd-alliance.org/groups/collections-as-data-ig/activity/

innovation & collaboration

https://glam-databases.net/tas-pod/

Chinese Tasmanian Stories

RAPID-CDL

https://rapid-cdl.edu.au

https://updates.timsherratt.org

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