wragge , 3 months ago to histodons

About five years ago I created a collection of full-page editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, harvested from #Trove. 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 #GLAMWorkbench, 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 #digitalHumanities #GLAM @histodons #ozHist

wragge , 4 months ago to histodons

📣 Calling all historians interested in using digital tools and methods in their research – the Australian Historical Association's Annual Conference this year will include a #digitalHistory stream! Even better, the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC) is sponsoring up to 4 bursaries for HDR students and ECR staff participating in the stream. Proposals are due on 23 February, so there's not much time. Ask me if you have any questions. Hope to see you there! https://ardc.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/digital-history-stream-aha-conference-2024.pdf #ozHist #digitalHumanities #histodons @histodons