Sally Baker

Hacking Heritage: the GLAM Workbench

24 July 2020

Notes from a two-day workshop using Jupyter notebooks for digital humanities research.

The workshop provided an overview of the current Jupyter workbooks and datasets available via Tim Sherratt’s GLAM Workbench. We were also able to work on our own projects which involved writing python code in a Juptyer notebook to work with data and create digital outputs of data analysis. Day two was rather overwhelming due to the sheer volume of information provided but, by the third day, everything clicked and I was able to compelete two projects.

Project One: World War I Music Scores

The notebook queries the World War I Music Scores dataset provided by the State Library of Queensland and performs some very simple data manipulation and analysis.

World War I Music Scores project on Github

Interact with this notebook on Binder

Project Two: ATSI Language Materials

This notebook explores the the State Library of Queensland Collection items in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander languages dataset.

atsi-language-materials project on GitHub

Interact with this notebook on Binder

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