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Trove unpublished works (diaries, letters, and archives)

Current version: v1.0.0

Experiments and examples relating to Trove's 'Diaries, letters, and archives' zone.

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Finding unpublished works that might be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019

Changes to Australian copyright legislation mean that many unpublished resources will be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019. This notebook attempts to harvest the details of some of these resources from Trove.

Exploring unpublished works that might be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019

This notebook demonstrates some ways of exploring the data harvested about unpublished resources that might be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019.

Find urls of digitised finding aids

This notebook uses the Trove API to harvest urls of NLA digitised finding aids from a search in the collection zone.

Collect information about digitised finding aids

This notebook works through a list of urls pointing to NLA's digitised finding aids, extracting additional information about each one.

Convert a HTML finding aid to JSON

This notebook scrapes data from the HTML of a finding aid, saving the hierarchy of series, sub-series, and items as a list of nested objects. The results can be saved as a JSON file.

Datasets

Unpublished works that might be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019

This dataset contains metadata describing unpublished works that might be entering the public domain on 1 January 2019.

NLA digitised finding aids: list of urls

A list of urls pointing to the National Library of Australia's digitised manuscript finding aids, harvested from Trove.

NLA digitised finding aids: summary information

This dataset includes summary information describing each finding aid.

Contributors

Cite as

Sherratt, Tim. (2023). GLAM-Workbench/trove-unpublished (version v1.0.0). Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7690276