Trove as a platform

for digital research and creativity

Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge

PLAY ALONG

http://slides.com/wragge/trove-data-workshop-uc-2019

things you need

Beyond the web interface

New possibilities for:

Integration
Creativity
Analysis

Atlas of Living Australia – automatically retrieves resources relating to species, eg. Magpie
To be continued..., by Kath Bode
The Loom index, DXLab SLNSW

INTEGRATIONS

CREATIVE PROJECTS

Eyes on the past
Drifter, by Mitchell Whitelaw
TextContext, by Riley Post
Culture Collage, by Zenlan

ANALYSIS & visualisation

By Adel Rahmani:

SOME THINGs To Make

(no coding required!)

Make your own game!

https://glitch.com/edit/#!/trove-headline-roulette

DIY TROVE exhibition

https://github.com/wragge/diy-trove-exhibition

Make a Trove Twitter Bot

https://101dhhacks.net/2018/01/21/trove-bots-for-all/

Big pictures

http://dhistory.org/querypic/

Getting data from Trove

Where's the data?

Metadata (collection records)
Search results and facets
Full text
Images

Machine-readable data

{
    "id": "153942274",
    "url": "/work/153942274",
    "troveUrl": "https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/153942274",
    "title": "Clement Wragge, 1899",
    "contributor": [
        "Nicholas, Sir Harold"
    ],
    "issued": 1899,
    "type": [
        "Photograph"
    ],
    "holdingsCount": 1,
    "versionCount": 1,
    "identifier": [
        {
            "type": "url",
            "linktype": "fulltext",
            "value": "http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/134400"
        },
        {
            "type": "url",
            "linktype": "thumbnail",
            "value": "http://bishop.slq.qld.gov.au:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?pid=185373&custom_att_2=simple_viewer"
        }
    ]
}

Machine-readable data

"facets": {
    "facet": {
        "name": "state",
        "displayname": "Place",
        "term": [
            {
                "count": "36687",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=New+South+Wales",
                "search": "New South Wales",
                "display": "New South Wales"
            },
            {
                "count": "33036",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=Queensland",
                "search": "Queensland",
                "display": "Queensland"
            },
            {
                "count": "23058",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=Victoria",
                "search": "Victoria",
                "display": "Victoria"
            },
            {
                "count": "22950",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=Tasmania",
                "search": "Tasmania",
                "display": "Tasmania"
            },
            {
                "count": "9235",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=South+Australia",
                "search": "South Australia",
                "display": "South Australia"
            },
            {
                "count": "4662",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=Western+Australia",
                "search": "Western Australia",
                "display": "Western Australia"
            },
            {
                "count": "235",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=ACT",
                "search": "ACT",
                "display": "ACT"
            },
            {
                "count": "75",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=Northern+Territory",
                "search": "Northern Territory",
                "display": "Northern Territory"
            },
            {
                "count": "70",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=National",
                "search": "National",
                "display": "National"
            },
            {
                "count": "15",
                "url": "/result?q=wragge&encoding=json&facet=state&n=0&zone=newspaper&l-state=International",
                "search": "International",
                "display": "International"
            }
        ]
    }
}

Machine-readable data

Sources of data

Pre-packaged datasets
Harvesting tools
The Trove API

PRE-Packaged datasets

Full text of digitised journals – 6.6gb from 358 different journals
Includes The Bulletin, Pacific Islands Monthly, Wireless Weekly, Australian Women's Mirror & many more
Metadata available as CSV files