Welcome to the Trove Data Guide

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This guide is currently under development. For more information and discussion see the list of issues on GitHub. Comments are welcome.

This guide will help you hone your data wrangling skills and develop a critical understanding of Trove as a source for digital research.

• Introduction

What is Trove?

• 1. Trove is…
• 2. Categories and zones
• 3. Categories
• 4. Metadata and digital objects
• 5. Works and versions
• 6. Links and identifiers
• 7. The Trove web interface

Types of data

• 8. Types of data

Understanding search

• 9. Understanding search

Collections and contexts

• 10. Collections and contexts
• 11. Understanding the newspaper corpus
  • 11.1. How does the contents of the newspaper corpus change over time?
  • 11.2. Missing newspaper pages and issues
  • 11.3. Non-English language newspapers
  • 11.4. Newspapers and copyright
  • 11.5. OCR quality and correction
• 12. Digitised collections
  • 12.1. Digitised books
  • 12.2. Digitised maps
  • 12.3. Digitised journals and magazines
  • 12.4. Digitised manuscripts
  • 12.5. Oral history
• 13. Aggregated collections

Accessing data

• 14. Data access options
  • 14.1. Downloading data from the Trove web interface
  • 14.2. Trove API introduction
  • 14.3. Downloadable datasets
• 15. Newspapers and gazettes
  • 15.1. Articles
  • 15.2. Pages
  • 15.3. Issues
  • 15.4. Titles
• 16. Digitised resources
• 17. Trove lists

Research pathways

• 18. Research pathways

How to...

• 19. Newspaper and gazettes how to…
  • 19.1. Visualising newspaper searches with QueryPic
  • 19.2. HOW TO: Get a newspaper issue or article as a PDF
  • 19.3. HOW TO: Get information about the position of OCRd newspaper text
  • 19.4. How to create a dataset of digitised newspaper articles
• 20. Web interface
  • 20.1. How to download higher resolution versions of images from the web interface
  • 20.2. Use the bulk export option to save the results of a search
  • 20.3. Using Trove lists to create a dataset
  • 20.4. Using Zotero to save items
• 21. API
  • 21.1. HOW TO: Harvest a complete set of search results using the Trove API
• 22. Digitised resources
  • 22.1. HOW TO: Get a list of items in a digitised collection
  • 22.2. HOW TO: Automate the download of digitised items as text, images, or PDFs

• Glossary
• Index
• References
• Jupyter Book demo page

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