{"id":327,"date":"2022-09-05T22:41:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-05T12:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/?p=327"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:15:01","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T00:15:01","slug":"a-lot-of-glam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vc.id.au\/blog2\/2022\/09\/a-lot-of-glam\/","title":{"rendered":"A lot of GLAM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/timsherratt.org\">Tim Sherratt<\/a>, 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/trove.nla.gov.au\">Trove<\/a> collection, but a current project is a collection of tools he calls <a href=\"https:\/\/glam-workbench.net\">GLAM workbench<\/a> intended to to &#8220;help you explore and use data from GLAM institutions (that&#8217;s galleries, libraries, archives, and museums).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>One of the exciting datasets for a family history researcher is the <a href=\"https:\/\/glam-workbench.net\/name-search\/\">GLAM Name Index Search<\/a> which provides a search against, at present, 253 datatsets containing names.<\/p>\n<p>These datasets include:<\/p>\n<div class=\"not-footer\">\n<section>\n<div class=\"container is-fluid\">\n<ul>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">History Trust of South Australia: passengers-in-history-search-index, suffrage125-petition<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">Libraries Tasmania: tasmanian-births-csv, tasmanian-deaths-csv, eheritage-data-csv, tasmanian-marriages-csv, tasmanian-departures-csv<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">NSW State Archives: deceased-estates, assisted-immigrants, convict-index, index-to-the-unassisted-arrivals-nsw-1842-1855, index-to-deposition-registers<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">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<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">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<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">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<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">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<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">State Library of Victoria: melbourne-and-metropolitan-hotels-pubs-and-publicans<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">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<\/li>\n<li class=\"title is-4 mt-5\">State Records Office of Western Australia: index-to-group-settlements-in-wa<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This looks like a wonderful resource to easily locate previously obscure and scattered snippets of information.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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