Skip to content

Trove digitised maps metadata

Harvested 31 January 2023

This dataset contains metadata describing digitised maps in Trove, harvested from the Trove API and other sources.

The dataset is formatted as a CSV file and contains the following columns:

Column Contents
title title of the map
url url to the map in the digitised file viewer
work_url url to the work in the Trove map category
identifier NLA identifier
date date published or created
creators creators of the map
publication publication place, publisher, and publication date (if available)
extent physical description of map
copyright_status copyright status based on available metadata (scraped from web page)
scale map scale
coordinates map coordinates, either a point or a bounding box (format is 'W--E/N--S', eg: 'E 130⁰50'--E 131⁰00'/S 12⁰30'--S 12⁰40')
filesize_string filesize string in MB
filesize size of TIFF file in bytes
width width of TIFF in pixels
height height of TIFF in pixels

Download from GitHub

Additional documentation

Getting help

Cite as

Tim Sherratt. (2023). GLAM-Workbench/trove-maps-data: v1.0 (version v1.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7591971