Trove Data Guide

The guide to Trove data will document in detail the types of content available through Trove, and what data is accessible for each content type. It will describe both the possibilities and limits of Trove data, enabling researchers to develop a critical understanding of Trove as a source for digital research.

Content types

• Explanation – why is Trove like this?
• Documentation – what you need to know
• How to – complete a specific task
• Tutorials – learn methods, develop skills
• inspired by Diátaxis

Explanation

Categories and zones

Documentation

Overview of oral histories

How to

Get and use OCR data from a book or periodical page

Tutorials

• Research pathways that integrate with other CDL and HASS&I RDC projects
• respond to researcher needs in phase 2?

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Pathways

Trove data

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CDL tools

Tutorials

Updates and versions

• repository and development site on GitHub
• creating a release in GitHub generates a new published version (with version number and publication date)

User feedback/engagement

• bug reports and enhancements via GitHub issues
• annotations using Hypothesis
• direct contributions via GitHub
• open license to encourage reuse