Trove Data Guide

This Guide explores the different types of data available from Trove – what it is, how you can access it, and what you can do with it. It aims to give researchers a critical understanding of Trove data, both its limits and its possibilities.

• About this Guide
• The possibilities of Trove data

What is Trove?

• 1. Trove is…
• 2. Categories and zones
• 3. Works and versions
• 4. Collections within collections
• 5. Links and identifiers
• 6. Interfaces

Understanding search

• 7. Understanding search
• 8. ‘Simple’ search options
• 9. Date searches
• 10. Finding NLA digitised content you can download

Accessing data

• 11. Data access options
• 12. Downloading data from the Trove web interface
• 13. Trove API introduction
• 14. How to
  • 14.1. HOW TO: Download higher resolution versions of images from the web interface
  • 14.2. HOW TO: Harvest a complete set of search results using the Trove API

Digitised newspapers and gazettes

• 15. Understanding the digitised newspapers
• 16. Accessing data
  • 16.1. Articles
  • 16.2. Pages
  • 16.3. Issues
  • 16.4. Titles
• 17. How to
  • 17.1. HOW TO: Get a newspaper issue or article as a PDF
  • 17.2. HOW TO: Get information about the position of OCRd newspaper text
  • 17.3. HOW TO: Create a dataset of digitised newspaper articles

Other digitised resources

• 18. Understanding and using digitised resources
• 19. Books
  • 19.1. Overview of digitised books
• 20. Periodicals
  • 20.1. Overview of periodicals
  • 20.2. Finding digitised periodicals
  • 20.3. Accessing data from periodicals
• 21. Parliamentary papers
  • 21.1. Overview of Parliamentary Papers
  • 21.2. Finding Parliamentary Papers in Trove
• 22. Oral histories
  • 22.1. Overview of oral histories
  • 22.2. Accessing data from digitised oral histories
• 23. How to
  • 23.1. HOW TO: Get a list of items in a digitised collection
  • 23.2. HOW TO: Automate the download of digitised items as text, images, or PDFs
  • 23.3. HOW TO: Extract additional metadata from the web page of a digitised work
  • 23.4. HOW TO: Get and use OCR data from a book or periodical page
  • 23.5. HOW TO: Harvest data relating to digitised resources
  • 23.6. HOW TO: Scrape metadata from the Trove audio player

Research pathways

• 24. Research pathways
  • 24.1. Text
  • 24.2. Images
  • 24.3. Structured data
  • 24.4. Maps and places
  • 24.5. Networks and relationships
  • 24.6. Creating collections

• References