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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 from a NED periodical and building a custom search interface using Datasette. This could be useful both to researchers and communities. Details here: updates.timsherratt.org/2025/0

I've also added a new Trove NED section to the GLAM Workbench, created a new Datasette template, & updated my harvest of NED periodicals.

Trove & the NLA refuse to share links to the GW, so there’s a good chance that the people who might benefit most directly from this work will never know that it exists. Please help by sharing amongst your networks! #GLAM #digitalHumanities #histodons @histodons

updates.timsherratt.org · Search the content of periodicals uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit serviceI’ve added a notebook to the GLAM Workbench that walks through the steps involved in creating a fully searchable database of content extracted from a periodical uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit service (NED). Why is this needed? I was contacted recently by a member of the team that publishes The Triangle, a community newsletter from the south coast of NSW. Issues of The Triangle from 2007 to the present have been uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit service, but they were wondering whether it was possible to search across all their newsletters in Trove.

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 of lone developers...

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 db, and published it using Datasette-Lite with a customised template that adds facets, highlighting etc. glam-workbench.net/datasette-l The method is pretty straightforward and can be repeated for similar periodicals. I'll be adding a notebook to the #GLAMWorkbench shortly. #GLAM

glam-workbench.netDatasette

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 have the details in one place.

But it's turning into a very long list...

It took a week, but the #Trove newspapers section of the #GLAMWorkbench is now fully updated. That's 25 notebooks and 6 datasets. glam-workbench.net/trove-newsp

For those who are interested (probably nobody), as well as updating the code to work with v3 of the Trove API, I pulled all the datasets out of the code repo and put them in their own dedicated repositories, added metadata to the notebooks, and created an RO-Crate metadata file for the repo. I also made some changes to the documentation site, adjusting the notebook previews, and moving things around. I still need to adjust some things relating to the datasets, but it's not major. #GLAM #maintenance #histodons, #digitalHumanities

glam-workbench.netTrove newspapers - GLAM WorkbenchA collection of tools and examples to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums

A researcher got in touch yesterday asking about saving digitised periodicals in #Trove as PDFs. All the various bits you need for this are in the #TroveDataGuide, but I hadn't actually pulled them together as a notebook. I thought it might be useful to others, so I've now created a #GLAMWorkbench notebook that helps you download all the issues of a digitised periodical as PDFs: glam-workbench.net/trove-journ Enjoy! #GLAM #histodons #digitalHumanities @histodons #researchInfrastructure

glam-workbench.netDownload issues of a periodical as PDFs - GLAM WorkbenchThis notebook helps you download the issues of a digitised periodical as PDFs. You can download all digitised issues, or specify a range of years to include.