projects

Current projects

For a list of projects I’ve worked on over the last 30 years see Wragge Labs.

See my news feed for notes on what I’m up to at the moment.

Projects I’m currently working on include:

• Trove Data Guide
• GLAM Workbench
• The Primary Source
• Real Face of White Australia
• Everyday Heritage

Over the years I’ve developed a wide variety of online tools, dashboards, and databases. Here are a few of the most useful:

• Historic Hansard
• Headline Roulette
• National Archives of Australia Digitisation Dashboard
• Create persistent links in RecordSearch
• GLAM Name Index Search
• NSW Post Office Directories, 1886–1950
• Sydney Telephone Directories, 1926–1954
• Tasmanian Post Office Directories, 1890–1948
• Trove API Console
• Trove Newspaper Data Dashboard
• TroveNewsBot
• Trove places
• Explore Trove’s digitised maps

Some tools, like QueryPic and the Trove Newspaper Harvester have been absorbed into the GLAM Workbench. The GLAM Workbench includes a list of citations that provides some examples of how these tools have been used over the last fifteen years.

As well as creating tools to work with GLAM collections, I’ve been working on creating datasets that help us understand how online collections change over time – their history, their shape, and their meaning. Many of these datasets are documented in the GLAM Workbench, saved in GitHub repositories, and published through Zenodo. For example:

• the Trove Historical Data group in Zenodo
• Records held by the National Archives of Australia with the access status of ‘closed’ – annual harvests from 2016 to 2025
• GitHub hosted data scrapers that run weekly to capture data about Trove’s newspapers, categories and contributors, and newly digitised files in the National Archives of Australia

I also compile GLAM data to give a new twist on the nature of access and open collections to new uses. Examples include:

• Editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, 1886 to 1952
• Commonwealth of Australia Hansard, 1901–2005

As well as the 100+ Jupyter notebooks within the GLAM Workbench, I maintain these software packages:

• Omeka S API client
• RecordSearch Data Scraper
• trove-newspaper-harvester
• trove-newspaper-images
• trove-query-parser
• Zotero translators for RecordSearch, PROV, Queensland State Archives, and Libraries Tasmania

The about me page lists some of my past projects as well as presentations and publications.