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THE GLAM WORKBENCH
A LABS Approach?
GLAM Workbench
GLAM Workbench
- tools, tutorials, examples, hacks
- live code in Jupyter notebooks
- editable, reusable, hackable
- repositories in GitHub
- openly licensed
GLAM Workbench
Asking questions with web archives – introductory notebooks for historians
- IIPC Discretionary Funding Program 2019–2020
- Developed with UKWA, NLA, NLNZ
- Project description and blog post
- Zenodo repository
- Winner of the British Library Labs Research Award
IIPC Project
- a starting point for researchers
- use existing APIs (Memento & CDX)
- no special tools
- complimenting projects like Archives Unleashed
PROJECT AIMS
Repositories uSED
- Australian Web Archive
- New Zealand Web Archive
- UK Web Archive
- Wayback Machine (Internet Archive)
But notebooks can be adapted to work with other Pywb, Open Wayback, and Memento compliant systems.
WEB ARCHIVES SECTION
Sixteen notebooks and apps exploring:
- Types of data
- Harvesting data & creating datasets
- Change over time
TYPES OF DATA
Timemaps & Mementos
Harvesting data
- Get the archived version of a page closest to a particular date
- Find all the archived versions of a web page
- Harvesting collections of text from archived web pages
- Harvesting data about a domain using the IA CDX API
- Find and explore Powerpoint presentations from a specific domain
- Exploring subdomains in the whole of gov.au
Harvesting data
Harvesting data
Harvesting data
CHANGE over time
- Compare two versions of an archived web page
- Observing change in a web page over time
- Create and compare full page screenshots from archived web pages
- Using screenshots to visualise change in a page over time
- Display changes in the text of an archived web page over time
- Find when a piece of text appears in an archived web page
CHANGE over time
CHANGE over time
CHANGE over time
CHANGE over time
PATHWAYS
- A variety of entry points and pathways
- Apps and notebooks
- Get started with a click (no software to install)
BINDER
RUN LIVE!
- builds a customised computing environment
- opens notebook ready-to-run
BINDER
- builds a customised computing environment
- opens notebook ready-to-run
RECLAIM CLOUD
- one click installation
- persistent environment
- Docker images
one click!
AND a T-SHIRT!
gov.au subdomains
OUTREACH
BINDER LAUNCHES
The GLAM Workbench: A Labs Approach?
By Tim Sherratt
