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I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections.

My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench, which brings together many examples, tools, code and tutorials to help people explore the digital collections of galleries, libraries, archives, and museums.

#Histodons #GLAM #DigitalHumanities

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I wrote up a little post about the work I've been doing saving digital collections from as manifests to help researchers explore and use the collections in new ways. It includes some live examples to play with. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/05/15/using-iiif-to.html @histodons

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I've written a little post about the National Library of Australia's collection of archived websites in Pandora and the new section that helps you to work with the data.

Want to find websites from Australian elections back to 1996? Just go to Pandora. Want all the urls in a spreadsheet? Just run my new notebook.

@histodons https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/05/07/using-pandoras-collection.html

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What do you want to do with data? Help me figure out what examples and tutorials to include in the 's research pathways section. Any Trove data dreams, frustrations, or late-night musings you'd like to share? This is a chance to get some of your gnarly Trove data problems solved! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/04/18/what-do-you.html Please share... @histodons

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About five years ago I created a collection of full-page editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, harvested from . Through a process that might be politely described as ‘iterative’, I fiddled with an assortment of queries and methods until I had at least one cartoon from every issue published between 4 September 1886 and 17 September 1952 – 3,471 cartoons in total.

Last night, as I was tidying up a new release of the Trove periodicals repository in the , I had a thought – why not put all of the details of the cartoons in a little database and make it available using Datasette-Lite for easy exploration? So I did! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/03/19/a-new-way.html @histodons

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Ok, draft Zotero translator for PROV collection is capturing item metadata, a link to generate a PDF, a link to IIIF manifest, saving the first page image (if digitised). Anything else that would be useful?

Attached screenshot is the result of capturing this item: https://prov.vic.gov.au/archive/0943A677-F7F4-11E9-AE98-F733DFFF76F5?image=1

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Some more 2023 data!

7,518,764 digitised newspaper articles were added to in 2023. This chart shows how the number of newspaper articles changed across the year.

You'll notice that the rate of digitisation increased about the same time the government announced new funding for Trove. Were more articles digitised because of the funding, or were articles in the digitisation pipeline held back until the funding was announced? Or both?

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It's almost the end of the year, so I might try and pull a few unofficial stats together from my data harvests.

For example, in 2023 the National Archives of Australia digitised 416,602 files (down from 575,597 in 2022).

These files were drawn from 1,423 different series, but the vast bulk (81%) were from 4 series of WW2 service records. (There's some details about the funding of the WW2 digitisation here: https://www.naa.gov.au/about-us/media-and-publications/media-releases/large-scale-effort-sees-1-million-second-world-war-records-digitised)

Here's the top twenty series by number of items digitised in 2023. @histodons

Table contents: B883, Second Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossier..., 201511 files; A9301, RAAF Personnel files of Non-Commissioned Officers ..., 111673 files; A9300, RAAF Officers Personnel files, 1921-1948..., 14125 files; B884, Citizen Military Forces Personnel Dossiers, 1939-1..., 11265 files; A14435, Stanley Fowler photographs showing the Australian ..., 10512 files; D3481, Photographs (black and white, colour) of buildings..., 8295 files; A1, Correspondence files, annual single number series ..., 7571 files; K1145, Certificates of Exemption from Dictation Test, ann..., 4169 files; A13150, Specifications, examiners reports and corresponden..., 3941 files; J853, Architectural plans, annual single number series w..., 3322 files; A2571, Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla..., 2204 files; D1423, Original plans (negatives), single number series w..., 2102 files; AP67/1, Personal documents of British migrants (including ..., 2058 files; E1652, Northern Territory Pastoral Applications (Pastoral..., 1822 files; D5440, Photographs of post office buildings, personnel an..., 1488 files; C609, Payment cards for employees' entitlements claims, ..., 1317 files; B3104, Photographs, Trans-Australian Railway, single numb..., 1222 files; MP1117/2, Microfilm reels of RAAF Engineering Drawings..., 1168 files; A2572, Name Index Cards, Migrants Registration [Bonegilla..., 1130 files; B6295, Photographs and negatives of Commonwealth building..., 1113 files;
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    I've finished a first pass through the Data Guide's section on accessing data from newspapers and gazettes and am allowing myself a tiny moment of celebration. 🎉 (Still so much to do! 😬) Comments and suggestions are welcome! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2023/09/15/trove-data-guide.html @histodons

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    It's Friday afternoon, it's , and I'm procrastinating, so here's a post that describes some of the resources in the that you might find useful for research: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2023/08/18/family-history-resources.html @histodons

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