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New #intro post! I'm a historian who who builds digital things to help people explore and use #GLAM collections (galleries, libraries, archives & museums). For some examples from the past 30 years see: https://wraggelabs.com

Most recently I was Creative Technologist-in-Residence at the State Library of Victoria. Here's a summary of what I got up to: https://slv.wraggelabs.com

I'm semi-retired, but still working away at passion projects like the #GLAMWorkbench and always on the lookout for interesting opportunities that can help pay the bills. You can find me at: https://timsherratt.au

Wragge Labs

A compilation of things I've built over the last 30 years to help people see and use the online collections of libraries, archives, and museums.

Tim Sherratt Sep 10, 2025

Pushed a fix to my custom Datasette-Lite repo so that the full-text indexing handles multiple columns properly. If you want to use it to share your CSVs as searchable databases, you can construct the necessary url with this form in the #GLAMWorkbench: https://glam-workbench.net/glam-tools/datasette/

Use Datasette-Lite to share a CSV file as a searchable, online database - GLAM Workbench

A collection of tools and examples to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums

Tim Sherratt Apr 28, 2025

Wrote up a short post about the new Jupyter Lite version of the #GLAMWorkbench's getting started notebook – includes a live version of the notebook embedded in the post! https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/04/28/the-glam-workbench-introduction-to.html

The GLAM Workbench introduction to how notebooks work now runs in Jupyter Lite

I’ve just updated my introduction to using Jupyter notebooks in the GLAM Workbench so that it runs in Jupyter Lite – that means no more waiting for cloud services to spin up, it all happens in your browser! All the Jupyter notebooks in GLAM Workbench can be run in the cloud using the free Binder service – either through the ARDC (requires authentication), or through the public, community-run service. While it’s usually just a matter of clicking a link, Binder can take a while to build the necessary computing environment, and sometimes it just fails.

Tim Sherratt Apr 27, 2025

The #GLAMWorkbench has a brand new section for the Public Record Office Victoria! The first notebook shows you how to use PROV's collection API. You can run it live on Jupyter Lite as well as Binder. https://glam-workbench.net/prov/ #GLAM #archives #histodons #digitalHumanities

Public Record Office Victoria - GLAM Workbench

Tools and resources for working with the Public Record Office Victoria's collection API.

Tim Sherratt Apr 26, 2025

I've created a Jupyter Lite version of the #GLAMWorkbench's 'getting started' notebook. It shows you how Jupyter notebooks work, with live examples that download data from the NMA collection API. https://glam-workbench.net/getting-started-jlite/lab/index.html?path=using_jupyter_notebooks.ipynb

Jupyter Lite runs in your browser, so there's no waiting for Binder or any cloud service to start up. #GLAM #jupyter

JupyterLite

WASM powered Jupyter running in the browser.

Tim Sherratt Apr 25, 2025

This has taken me far too long (tired, distracted brain), but I think it's just about ready for the #GLAMWorkbench...

Tim Sherratt Apr 4, 2025

I'm still fiddling with the Public Record Office Victoria API, so to help me and others get their heads around the data the API provides, I created a dashboard that gives a basic overview. It should update every Sunday. https://wragge.github.io/prov-dashboard/

Still working on a PROV API section for the #GLAMWorkbench that'll have all the code. #GLAM #archives #histodons #digitalhumanities

dashboard

Tim Sherratt Mar 31, 2025

I've added another 15 entries to my list of publications that mention the #GLAMWorkbench or one of its related tools (such as the #Trove Newspaper Harvester). That makes an even 100 references from around the world. https://glam-workbench.net/citations/ #GLAM #collectionsAsData #researchImpact

GLAM Workbench citations - GLAM Workbench

This page brings together references to the GLAM Workbench and its associated tools.

Tim Sherratt Mar 4, 2025

Added a new banner to the #GLAMWorkbench... 😞

Tim Sherratt Feb 19, 2025

I was asked recently for help searching a community newsletter that had been uploaded to #Trove through the National eDeposit service (NED). That led me down a bit of a rabbit hole... I've now added a notebook to the #GLAMWorkbench that walks through the process of extracting metadata and text from a NED periodical and building a custom search interface using Datasette. This could be useful both to researchers and communities. Details here: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/02/19/search-the-content-of-periodicals.html

I've also added a new Trove NED section to the GLAM Workbench, created a new Datasette template, & updated my harvest of NED periodicals.

Trove & the NLA refuse to share links to the GW, so there’s a good chance that the people who might benefit most directly from this work will never know that it exists. Please help by sharing amongst your networks! #GLAM #digitalHumanities #histodons @histodons

Search the content of periodicals uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit service

I’ve added a notebook to the GLAM Workbench that walks through the steps involved in creating a fully searchable database of content extracted from a periodical uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit service (NED). Why is this needed? I was contacted recently by a member of the team that publishes The Triangle, a community newsletter from the south coast of NSW. Issues of The Triangle from 2007 to the present have been uploaded to Trove through the National eDeposit service, but they were wondering whether it was possible to search across all their newsletters in Trove.