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 2021, there were 413 datasets, containing 1076 data files.

• Human readable list of GLAM datasets harvested from government portals (October 2021)
• CSV formatted list of GLAM datasets harvested from government portals (October 2021)
• CSV formatted list of GLAM datasets (CSVs only) harvested from government portals (October 2021)

Tools to explore these datasets

• Search the harvested datasets using Datasette on Glitch
• Visualise the contents of datasets using the GLAM CSV Explorer
• Search for names across GLAM indexes – aggregated search across 196 datasets, containing 9.3 million rows of data

GLAM data portals & repositories

• Collab (SA)
• Libraries Tasmania
• State Library of NSW
• 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 (via Memento and CDX API)
• Federal Election Speeches (Museum of Australian Democracy)
• Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences
• Museums Victoria
• National Museum of Australia
• Public Record Office Victoria MapWarper API
• State Library of NSW, Social Media Archive API
• State Library of Victoria
• Trove – explore using the Trove API Console
• Trove People and Organisations
• Victorian Heritage API

Other downloadable datasets

Full text

• DPMC – Prime Ministers transcripts (via GLAM Workbench)
• MoAD – Federal Election speeches
• NAA – Real Face of White Australia data (transcribed from National Archives of Australia: ST84/1)
• Parliamentary Library – Commonwealth Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), 1901-1980 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Parliamentary Library – Hansard interjections (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – Australian Aborigines Advocate (1908-1928)
• Trove – Australian Government Gazettes (1832-1968)
• Trove – OCRd text from digitised books (and ephemera) (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – OCRd text of digitised journals (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove & Internet Archive – OCRd text from the Internet Archive of 'Australian' books listed in Trove (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove & Parliamentary Library – parliamentary press releases relating to COVID-19 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove & Parliamentary Library – parliamentary press releases relating to immigrants and refugees (via GLAM Workbench)

Images

• NAA – DIY #redactionart (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – Australian Women's Weekly front covers, 1933 to 1982 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, 1886 to 1952 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – faces extracted from Trove newspaper photographs

Metadata

• ACMI collection data
• NAA – files withheld from public access in 2017 (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – files withheld from public access in 2016 (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – files withheld from public access in 2015 (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – recently digitised files in National Archives of Australia – repository of weekly snapshots (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – series in the National Archives of Australia with content recorded by the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – series in the National Archives of Australia relating to the White Australia Policy (via GLAM Workbench)
• NAA – summary data about all series in the National Archives of Australia (via GLAM Workbench)
• NSW State Archives indexes (via GLAM Workbench)
• SLNSW – Tribune negatives collection – all item level records (Series 1-4) ((via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – Australian Women's Weekly issues, 1933 to 1982 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – books available in digital form (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – data from web archives showing when digitised newspaper titles were added to Trove (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – geolocated newspaper titles (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – government publications available in digital form (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – lists metadata (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – maps with high-resolution downloads (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – newspapers with articles published after 1954 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – newspapers with non-English language content (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – periodicals available from in digital form (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – periodicals in Trove with OCRd text (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – public tag counts (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – public tags added to resources, 2008 to 2021 (via GLAM Workbench)
• Trove – Radio National program data (via GLAM Workbench)

Other portals providing access to machine-readable GLAM data

• Atlas of Living Australia (API)
• Austlit (beta API)
• AusStage (API)
• Australian Data Archive
• Biodiversity Heritage Library (API)
• Gazetteer of Historical Australian Placenames (API)
• HuNI (API)

Contributing to this list

Additions to this list are welcome. Either:

1. Submit an issue in this repository.
2. Fork this repository, make your changes, then submit a pull request.

Cite as

Tim Sherratt. (2019, October 28). GLAM-Workbench/glam-data-list (Version v0.1.0). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3520419