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GLAM datasets in government data portals

This dataset contains information about open access datasets made available by Australian GLAM organisations through government data portals. The dataset was created by harvesting data from state and national portals. The method is documented in this notebook in the GLAM Workbench.

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Summary

Harvested 21 October 2024

Number of datasets: 443 Number of files: 1251

Datasets by organisation:

publisher number of datasets
State Library of Queensland 355
Queensland State Archives 212
State Library of South Australia 138
South Australian Museum 102
State Records Office of Western Australia 86
Libraries Tasmania 85
State Library of Western Australia 73
Queensland Museum 53
State Records South Australia 30
Public Records Office Victoria 30
History Trust of South Australia 20
NSW State Archives 19
Western Australian Museum 18
National Library of Australia 5
State Library of NSW 5
State Library of Victoria 5
Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences 4
Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) 3
National Archives of Australia 3
Mount Gambier Library 2
National Portrait Gallery 2
Museums Victoria 1

Files

glam-datasets-from-gov-portals.csv

This dataset contains details of all of the individual data files contained within datasets shared by GLAM organisations through government data portals. It contains the following columns:

Column Contents
dataset_title name of the dataset
publisher name of the GLAM organisation contributing the data
author usually the same as publisher but can contain other information such as an email address
dataset_issued date when this dataset was published
dataset_modified date when this dataset was last modified
dataset_description description of the dataset
source the portal through which the dataset is published, eg: data.qld.gov.au
info_url link to page providing more information
start_date earliest date of data within this dataset
end_date latest date of data within this dataset
file_title title of data file within this dataset
download_url link to download data file
format format of data file, eg 'CSV'
file_description description of data file
file_created date when this data file was created
file_modified date when this data file was last modified
file_size size of the data file
licence licence applied to data file

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glam-datasets-from-gov-portals-csvs.csv

This dataset contains details of all of the individual data files in CSV format contained within datasets shared by GLAM organisations through government data portals. It contains the following columns:

Column Contents
dataset_title name of the dataset
publisher name of the GLAM organisation contributing the data
author usually the same as publisher but can contain other information such as an email address
dataset_issued date when this dataset was published
dataset_modified date when this dataset was last modified
dataset_description description of the dataset
source the portal through which the dataset is published, eg: data.qld.gov.au
info_url link to page providing more information
start_date earliest date of data within this dataset
end_date latest date of data within this dataset
file_title title of data file within this dataset
download_url link to download data file
format format of data file, eg 'CSV'
file_description description of data file
file_created date when this data file was created
file_modified date when this data file was last modified
file_size size of the data file
licence licence applied to data file

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glam_datasets_from_gov_portals.md

This is a markdown-formatted list of data files grouped by publishing organisation and dataset.

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Examples of use

Getting help

Cite as

Sherratt, Tim. (2024). GLAM-Workbench/gov-portals-data (version v1.5). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.13958962