Latest posts tagged with #GLAMWorkbench on Bluesky
New #intro post! I'm a historian who who builds digital things to help people explore and use #GLAM collections (galleries, libraries, archives & museums). For some examples from the past 30 years see: https://wraggelabs.com
Most recently I was Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the State […]
Pushed a fix to my custom Datasette-Lite repo so that the full-text indexing handles multiple columns properly. If you want to use it to share your CSVs as searchable databases, you can construct the necessary url with this form in the #GLAMWorkbench: https://glam-workbench.net/glam-tools/datasette/
Wrote up a short post about the new Jupyter Lite version of the #GLAMWorkbench's getting started notebook – includes a live version of the notebook embedded in the post! updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/28/the-glam-work...
The #GLAMWorkbench has a brand new section for the Public Record Office Victoria! The first notebook shows you how to use PROV's collection API. You can run it live on Jupyter Lite as well as Binder. https://glam-workbench.net/prov/ #GLAM #archives #histodons #digitalHumanities
I've created a Jupyter Lite version of the #GLAMWorkbench's 'getting started' notebook. It shows you how Jupyter notebooks work, with live examples that download data from the NMA collection API. glam-workbench.net/getting-started-jlite/la... […]
Screen capture of the heading section of a Jupyter notebook entitled: "Getting started with the PROV API". The table of contents includes: A simple API request Using an 'empty' query to get everything The different types of entities in API results Identifiers and links Search facets Controlling the way results are delivered Retrieving a random result Harvest a complete set of results Constructing queries Boolean operators Text searches Filter results by using fields Filter by date Find digitised records Find records about people Find an individual record Find related entities
This has taken me far too long (tired, distracted brain), but I think it's just about ready for the #GLAMWorkbench...
A screen capture from the 'Overview' section of the PROV Data Dashboard. It includes the following information: "The PROV API currently returns 10,144,070 results. The API includes information about a number of different entities described in the PROV Archival Control Model. The entity and category fields tell you what sort of data you're dealing with. The charts below use facet counts from the API to find the number of results for each value in these fields." The value counts in the 'Entity' and 'Category' fields are displayed below this, with a table and a bar chart side by side for each field. The text for the entity field reads: "Entity: Top-level conceptual entities defined by the PROV's PROV Archival Control Model" The value counts are: Record 6,376,415 Agent 3,172 Function 321 The text for the category field reads: "Category: A more fine-grained grouping of the descriptive entities used in PROV data – the top-level Record entity is sub-divided into Series, Consignment, Item, and Image" The value counts are: Item 6,335,803 Image 3,613,751 relatedEntity 150,411 Consignment 23,647 Series 16,965 Agency 3,172 Function 321
I'm still fiddling with the Public Record Office Victoria API, so to help me and others get their heads around the data the API provides, I created a dashboard that gives a basic overview. It should update every Sunday […]
[Original post on hcommons.social]
I've added another 15 entries to my list of publications that mention the #GLAMWorkbench or one of its related tools (such as the #Trove Newspaper Harvester). That makes an even 100 references from around the world. https://glam-workbench.net/citations/ #GLAM #collectionsAsData #researchImpact
Screenshot of banner at the top of the GLAM Workbench homepage, the message reads: "The National Library of Australia has cancelled my Trove API key. This makes it difficult to maintain or develop the Trove sections of the GLAM Workbench. Trove API users should also be aware of changes to the terms of use which limit access to content of resources, including the full text of digitised newspaper articles."
Added a new banner to the #GLAMWorkbench... 😞
I was asked recently for help searching a community newsletter that had been uploaded to #Trove through the National eDeposit service (NED). That led me down a bit of a rabbit hole... I've now added a notebook to the #GLAMWorkbench that walks through the process of extracting metadata and text […]
I've also created a new #GLAMWorkbench section for #Trove NED stuff. It's pretty much done, but neither MyBinder or ARDC Binder are working at the moment, so I can't fully test things...
I'd sort of like to nominate the #GLAMWorkbench in the Eureka Prize's research software category. It wouldn't win against all the science-y, institutionally-supported things, and it's a lot of work to submit, so not sure it's worth the effort just to fly the flag for #GLAM, HASS, and the work […]
I think this is working now... a custom search interface to a periodical uploaded to #Trove through the National eDeposit scheme. In Trove it's a collection of PDFs that can only be searched individually using the PDF viewer. I've pulled out all the text, created a full-text index in a SQLite […]
Tonight I'm having a chat about data labs & my work on the #GLAMWorkbench with folks from the impressive Impresso project: https://www.impresso-project.ch/
The work of #maintenance is never done – some details of last week's updates to the #Trove newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench: updates.timsherratt.org/2024/09/23/major-update-... The Trove newspapers section includes 23 Jupyter notebooks and 6 datasets. #GLAM #histodons […]
I thought I'd pull together a little list of all the datasets I've created over the years that capture data about the history of online GLAM collections (specifically Trove and RecordSearch). They're scattered a bit between the #GLAMWorkbench, GitHub, and Zenodo, so I thought it's be useful to […]
#GLAMWorkbench update! Saving #Trove's digitised periodicals as PDFs: updates.timsherratt.org/2024/09/19/saving-troves... #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities
It took a week, but the #Trove newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench is now fully updated. That's 25 notebooks and 6 datasets. https://glam-workbench.net/trove-newspapers/
For those who are interested (probably nobody), as well as updating the code to work with v3 of the Trove API, I pulled […]
Image created by snipping words out of digitised newspapers, text reads: "Why does Trove hate API users"
Ok, so I've updated all the notebooks in the Trove newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench to make sure they work with v3 of the Trove API. They're not in the repository yet – still have to update all the metadata & generate RO-Crate files for nbs and data.
I can't remember if I ever did an #intro post, but it's probably out of date anyway. I'm a historian who has spent much of the last couple of decades working in & around the #GLAM sector, building #open tools & resources to help other historians do interesting things with digital collections. I […]
