A lot of GLAM

Tim Sherratt, historian and hacker, has been devising creative ways of mining and displaying the digital collection of cultural institutions, the majority Australian, for some years. Many of these have explored the Trove collection, but a current project is a collection of tools he calls GLAM workbench intended to to “help you explore and use data from GLAM institutions (that’s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums).”

One of the exciting datasets for a family history researcher is the GLAM Name Index Search which provides a search against, at present, 253 datatsets containing names.

These datasets include:

History Trust of South Australia: passengers-in-history-search-index, suffrage125-petition
Libraries Tasmania: tasmanian-births-csv, tasmanian-deaths-csv, eheritage-data-csv, tasmanian-marriages-csv, tasmanian-departures-csv
NSW State Archives: deceased-estates, assisted-immigrants, convict-index, index-to-the-unassisted-arrivals-nsw-1842-1855, index-to-deposition-registers
Public Records Office Victoria: unassisted-inward-passengers-1852-1923, outwards-passengers-from-victoria-1852-1915, index-to-wills-probate-and-administration-records-1841-2009, british-assisted-passengers-to-victoria-1839-1871, vprs-515-p1-central-register-of-male-prisoners
Queensland State Archives: assisted-immigration-1848-to-1912-combined, nominated-immigrants-1908-to-1922, australian-south-sea-islanders-1867-1948, teachers-in-the-education-office-gazettes-1899-1925, south-sea-islanders-1867-to-1908-combined
State Library of Queensland: british-convict-registers, licensed-victuallers-index-updated-july-2022, world-war-1-soldier-portraits, queensland-railway-appointees-1890-1915, queensland-railway-removals-1890-1915
State Library of South Australia: south-australian-photographs-1920-1949, south-australian-photographs-1900-1919, south-australian-photographs-pre-1900, south-australian-photographs-1950-onwards, heroes-of-the-great-war-chronicle-1915-1919
State Library of Victoria: melbourne-and-metropolitan-hotels-pubs-and-publicans
State Library of Western Australia: pictorial-collection-csv, indexed-obituaries-csv, index-entries-beginning-with-m, index-entries-beginning-with-h, index-entries-beginning-with-c
State Records Office of Western Australia: index-to-group-settlements-in-wa

This looks like a wonderful resource to easily locate previously obscure and scattered snippets of information.

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