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 August 2022, there were 463 datasets, containing 1192 data files.
- Human readable list of GLAM datasets harvested from government portals (August 2022)
- CSV formatted list of GLAM datasets harvested from government portals (August 2022)
- CSV formatted list of GLAM datasets (CSVs only) harvested from government portals (August 2022)
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 253 datasets, containing more than 9 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)
- Museums Victoria
- National Museum of Australia
- Public Record Office Victoria Collection API
- 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)
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