Trove as a platform
for digital research and creativity
Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge
PLAY ALONG
things you need
Test your knowledge
But what's an API?
- Application Programming Interface
- How computer programs talk to each other
- You use them all the time!
THE TROVE API
- Delivers Trove data in a machine-readable form
- Supports new tools, new interfaces, new uses
- Web site for humans, API for computers!
- See Building with Trove
How does it work?
- Request a URL, get back data
What can I do with it?
- Make tools and apps
- Visualise data
- Harvest your own datasets
- and more...
- 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
- Drifter, by Mitchell Whitelaw
- TextContext, by Riley Post
- Culture Collage, by Zenlan
SOME THINGs To Make
(no coding required!)
Make your own game!
DIY TROVE exhibition
Make a Trove Twitter Bot
Big pictures
But Beware!
TRY IT YOURSELF!
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=+- Go to QueryPic
- Click on 'Create'
- Click on 'Query url'
- Copy & paste this url:
Get your own data
radio national data
- Repository on GitHub
- In a word...
- Harvest your own
- Releases relating to refugees
PARLIAMENT PRESS RELEASES
Faces!
Trove Harvester
- Get your newspaper articles in bulk
- Full text and PDFs too!
OzGLAM Workbench
Includes:
- An introduction to the Trove API
- Harvest thousands of newspaper articles with the TroveHarvester
- A hackable version of QueryPic
- Harvest complete series from RecordSearch
- More to come!
under construction!
OzGLAM Workbench
under construction!
Make something!
- Your own version of headline roulette
- A Trove exhibition
- A Trove Twitter bot
- A harvest of newspaper articles