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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.

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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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📣 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 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 @histodons

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If you're interested in exploring the NLA's oral history collection (via ), there's some useful tools and examples in the and the : https://updates.timsherratt.org/2024/01/04/exploring-oral-histories.html @histodons

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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?

@histodons

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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

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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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