Sources of Australian GLAM data
GLAM datasets from government data portals¶
These are datasets from a range of GLAM organisations around Australia that have been shared through state and national open government data portals. As of October 2024, there were 443 datasets, containing 1251 data files, from 22 organisations.
- List of GLAM datasets harvested from government portals (October 2024)
- Search the harvested metadata using Datasette
- Visualise the contents of datasets using the GLAM CSV Explorer
- Search for people in GLAM name indexes – aggregated search across 279 datasets, containing more than 11 million rows of data
GLAM data portals & repositories¶
- Collab (SA)
- Libraries Tasmania
- State Library of Queensland
- State Library of SA
- State Library of Victoria
- State Library of WA
- Western Australian Museum
GLAM collection APIs¶
- ACMI public API
- Australian War Memorial
- Australian Web Archive (Memento and CDX API)
- Museum of Australian Democracy – Federal Election Speeches
- Museums Victoria
- National Museum of Australia
- PM Transcripts: Transcripts from the Prime Ministers of Australia
- Public Record Office Victoria Collection API
- Public Record Office Victoria MapWarper API
- State Library of NSW, Social Media Archive API
- Trove – explore using the Trove API Console
- Trove People and Organisations
- Victorian Collections API
- Victorian Heritage Database API
Other downloadable datasets¶
Full text¶
- Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet – Prime Ministers transcripts
- Museum of Australian Democracy – Federal Election speeches
- National Archives of Australia – Real Face of White Australia transcribed data
- Parliamentary Library – Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), 1901-2005
- Parliamentary Library – Hansard interjections
- Trove – OCRd text from digitised books (and ephemera)
- Trove – OCRd text of digitised journals
- Trove & Internet Archive – OCRd text from the Internet Archive of 'Australian' books listed in Trove
- Trove & Parliamentary Library – parliamentary press releases relating to COVID-19
- Trove & Parliamentary Library – parliamentary press releases relating to immigrants and refugees
Images¶
- National Archives of Australia – DIY #redactionart
- Trove – Australian Women's Weekly front covers, 1933 to 1982
- Trove – editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, 1886 to 1952
- Trove – faces extracted from Trove newspaper photographs
Metadata¶
- ANU Archives – Sydney Stock Exchange records
- National Archives of Australia – files withheld from public access in 2017
- National Archives of Australia – files withheld from public access in 2016
- National Archives of Australia – files withheld from public access in 2015
- National Archives of Australia – recently digitised files in National Archives of Australia – repository of weekly snapshots
- National Archives of Australia – series in the National Archives of Australia with content recorded by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO)
- National Archives of Australia – series in the National Archives of Australia relating to the White Australia Policy
- National Archives of Australia – summary data about all series in the National Archives of Australia
- NSW State Archives indexes
- State Library of NSW – Tribune negatives collection – all item level records (Series 1-4)
Trove books¶
Trove contributors¶
- List of organisations contributing metadata (updated weekly)
- Count of records by contributor and zone (updated weekly)
- Count of records by contributor, zone, and format (updated weekly)
Trove government¶
- Digitised Parliamentary Papers in Trove
- Parliamentary press releases relating to COVID-19
- Parliamentary press releases relating to immigrants and refugees
Trove images¶
Trove lists and tags¶
Trove manuscript finding aids¶
Trove maps¶
Trove newspapers¶
- Historical snapshots of newspaper totals
- Snapshots of newspaper data (updated weekly)
- Data about newspaper issues
- Data from web archives showing when digitised newspaper titles were added to Trove
- OCR corrections in Trove newspapers
- Newspapers with articles published after 1954
- Newspapers with non-English language content
- Australian Women's Weekly issues, 1933 to 1982
- Geolocated newspaper titles
Trove oral histories & sound¶
- Oral histories metadata
- List of NLA oral history collections and projects
- ABC Radio National metadata
Trove periodicals¶
- Details of digitised periodicals from the
/magazine/titlesAPI endpoint - CSV formatted list of journals available from Trove in digital form
- Details of periodicals submitted to Trove through the National edeposit scheme (NED)
Trove web archives (Pandora)¶
Other portals providing access to machine-readable GLAM data¶
- Atlas of Living Australia (API)
- AusStage (API)
- Australian Data Archive
- Biodiversity Heritage Library (API)
- Gazetteer of Historical Australian Placenames (API)
- HuNI (API)
- Language Data Commons of Australia
Zotero compatibility¶
Custom Zotero translators or embedded metadata allow the capture of metadata and digitised objects from the following GLAM databases:
- Analysis & Policy Observatory
- ANU Open Research Repository
- AustLII
- Libraries Tasmania
- National Archives of Australia
- National Gallery of Australia
- Public Record Office Victoria
- Queensland State Archives
- State Records Office of Western Australia
- Trove
For more information on Zotero support within the Australian GLAM sector see this spreadsheet.
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