Tim Sherratt @wragge@ausglam.space
Historian & hacker
Yep, I know the Trove API very well, from inside and out. ;-) (I was previously manager of Trove.) Full details of the journals (like the Bulletin) aren't currently accessible via the API, hence the scraping.
You can take the code for a spin on MyBinder: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/wragge/ozglam-workbench/master
So I've added a new notebook to my OzGLAMWorkbench about getting data, images and OCRd text out of The Bulletin (or any other digitised journal) on Trove. No API for the journals, so a bit of scraping is required... https://github.com/wragge/ozglam-workbench/blob/master/Trove/Cookbook/Harvesting-data-from-the-Bulletin.ipynb I blame @Bonnie.
The #bonetrade project has hit the ground running. See https://bonetrade.github.io/papers/ for pubs, codes, and slides - including upcoming Transatlantic Cultural Property Crime Symposium, 'fleshing out the bones: understanding the human remains trade using computer vision'
writing a remixable textbook for intro to digital archaeology.
using jupyter + binder to handle exercises, demos. Here's one in process of becoming for use with opencontext.org
Enjoying playing with Altair for data viz/exploration. Here's a thing I made for Kate using her naturalisations data from Archives NZ. Markers link back to Archway: https://wragge.github.io/otago-naturalisations/browser.html
Want to get data out of Archives NZ Archway database? Have I got a Jupyter notebook for you... https://github.com/wragge/archway-harvesting
I'm not good at career planning, but I really need to face that fact that there's a very good chance I won't have a job come November...
So I'm continuing to work away on my OzGLAM workbench. Just updated the TroveHarvester notebook to make it easy to download a harvest. Have a play here: https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/wragge/ozglam-workbench/master?filepath=Trove%2FTroveHarvester%2F1-Using-TroveHarvester-to-get-newspaper-articles-in-bulk.ipynb Thoughts welcome...
'Play the part of a secret agent...' http://naa.gov.au/visit-us/exhibitions/spy/index.aspx
#OpenRefine 3.0 beta released! With a lot of #Wikidata inside, and many other very useful features and bug fixes. Thanks to everybody involved ❤
So do I want to go to an update on the HASS Virtual Laboratory or will it just make me grumpy and depressed...?
@Bonnie @hugh Hey, but I'm sure you'll both be thrilled to know that the NAA's exhibition on the history of ASIO will be opening later this year... Another outing for the #redactionart dress?
Huh. Who would've thought that raising your copying fees by 380% would result in many fewer requests and many more angry users? From the NAA's submission to the cultural institutions inquiry...
GLAM Peak's response to the lack of support for HASS and cultural collections in infrastructure funding seems particularly piss weak: http://www.digitalcollections.org.au/sites/default/files/GLAM%20Peak%20Media%20Release%20on%20Research%20Infrastructure%2018%20May%202018_1.pdf
Impact of funding cuts at NAA: 'There's been a decline in our capacity to provide access to records and also a decline in our capacity to transfer records in.' https://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/act/national-archives-confirms-10-jobs-to-go-admits-to-decline-in-access-to-records-20180523-p4zh1w.html
Cultural institutions 'find themselves faced with a stark choice: start doing dramatically less with less or find money elsewhere’ -- https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/postcolonial-blog/2018/may/23/manufacture-sell-deploy-commemorate-is-this-how-we-should-memorialise-war
'The ability to engage data should not remain the province of the exceptional' -- great post by Thomas Padilla: https://medium.com/@tgpadillajr/data-praxis-a-could-be-common-cause-72002dbfb1e5
Background blog post on the CyArk data here: http://ryanfb.github.io/etc/2018/04/21/cyark_open_heritage_data_getting_the_data.html
Next post will likely be strategies for dealing with gigantic E57 files, followed by some experiments with the photogrammetry data, and then maybe some point cloud meshing.