Tim Sherratt @wragge@ausglam.space

Using Datasette on Nectar: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/05/26/using-datasette-on.html

This week the National Archives of Australia digitised 21,488 files:

+10,305 in B884 (CMF personnel dossiers)

+7,339 in A2572 & A2571 (Bonegilla name index cards)

+1,345 in A9301 (RAAF personnel files)

See: https://github.com/wragge/naa-recently-digitised/

Changes to Trove newspapers this week:

+74,859 articles

+15,852 articles with corrections

+8,668 articles with tags

+592 articles with comments

See: https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals/commit/f1b5b40495c023cfd90c9b6eee14dec87e6e9a95

Major changes to individual Trove newspapers this week:

+52,543 articles from The Daily News (WA)

+22,316 articles from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)

See: https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals/commit/f1b5b40495c023cfd90c9b6eee14dec87e6e9a95

Convert your Trove newspaper searches to an API query with just one click!: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/05/20/convert-your-trove.html

Also on tonight’s episode of ‘In GLAM This Week’, the NAA digitised 20,517 files. Of these:

13,850 were name index cards from the Bonegilla Migrant Camp (Series A2571 & A2572).

4,938 were CMF personnel files (Series B884)

See: https://github.com/wragge/naa-recently-digitised

This week’s changes in Trove newspapers:

+7,451 articles

+16,628 articles with corrections

+8,148 articles with tags

+491 articles with comments

https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals/commit/a1637b0faa4262e915c230a1fd3647b484e5224a

Another overdue maintenance task completed! The Tung Wah Newspaper index has been migrated from a custom Django app on a now defunct web host, to a nice, neat Datasette instance on Heroku. https://resources.chineseaustralia.org/tung_wah_newspaper_index

TIL you can do date maths in Trove. Searching for date:[NOW-10YEAR TO NOW] in newspapers & gazettes returns articles from the last 10 years. Try it: https://trove.nla.gov.au/search/category/newspapers?keyword=date%3A%5BNOW-10YEAR%20TO%20NOW%5D

My Trove researcher platform wishlist: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/05/11/my-trove-researcher.html

Spending the evening updating the NAA section of the #GLAMWorkbench. Here’s a fresh harvest of the agency functions currently being used in RecordSearch… https://gist.github.com/wragge/d1612daa4c87c4a0f1eeb27c6adeb4ab

This morning has been all bug hunting. But at least I’ve now found & fixed the problem, & released version 0.0.14 of the RecordSearch Data Scraper! https://github.com/wragge/recordsearch_data_scraper/releases/tag/v0.0.14 Also updated on Pypi.

Changes in Trove newspaper titles in the last week:

+26,731 articles from Daily News (WA)

+88,485 articles from Sunraysia Daily (Vic)

+6,810 articles from Dalgety’s Review (WA)

See: https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals/commit/8a7aaadf69125975bd92d4087e6eb41e08150367

Changes in Trove newspapers in the past week:

+124,404 articles available

+17,306 articles with corrections

+8,269 articles with tags

+523 articles with comments

See: https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-totals/commit/8a7aaadf69125975bd92d4087e6eb41e08150367

Somewhat unexpectedly the US National Archives & Records Administration catalogue includes some historic photos of Tasmania… https://catalog.archives.gov/search?q=australia&f.parentNaId=1425632&f.level=item&sort=naIdSort%20asc#.YnSegHEcPEs.link

I’ve got a site, I suppose I need to add some content now… https://glam-workbook.net/ #GLAMWorkbook