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
• Who is this for?
• 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. Search interface hacks
• 11. Finding NLA digitised content you can download

Accessing data

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

Digitised newspapers and gazettes

• 16. Understanding the digitised newspapers
• 17. Accessing data
  • 17.1. Articles
  • 17.2. Pages
  • 17.3. Issues
  • 17.4. Titles
• 18. How to
  • 18.1. HOW TO: Get a newspaper issue or article as a PDF
  • 18.2. HOW TO: Get information about the position of OCRd newspaper text
  • 18.3. HOW TO: Create a dataset of digitised newspaper articles

Other digitised resources

• 19. Understanding digitised resources
• 20. Accessing data from digitised resources
• 21. Books
• 22. Periodicals
  • 22.1. Overview of periodicals
  • 22.2. Finding digitised periodicals
  • 22.3. Accessing data from periodicals
• 23. Parliamentary papers
  • 23.1. Overview of Parliamentary Papers
  • 23.2. Finding Parliamentary Papers in Trove
• 24. Oral histories
  • 24.1. Overview of oral histories
  • 24.2. Accessing data from digitised oral histories
• 25. How to
  • 25.1. HOW TO: Harvest data relating to digitised resources
  • 25.2. HOW TO: Extract additional metadata from the digitised resource viewer
  • 25.3. HOW TO: Get a list of items from a digitised collection
  • 25.4. HOW TO: Get text, images, and PDFs using Trove’s download link
  • 25.5. HOW TO: Create download links for images using nla.obj identifiers
  • 25.6. HOW TO: Get and use OCR data from a book or periodical page
  • 25.7. HOW TO: Scrape metadata from the Trove audio player

Research pathways

• 26. Introduction
• 27. Using text
  • 27.1. Data sources
  • 27.2. Tools and resources
  • 27.3. Tutorials and examples
• 28. Using images
  • 28.1. Data sources
  • 28.2. Tools and resources
  • 28.3. Tutorials and examples
• 29. Collection and system data
  • 29.1. Data sources
  • 29.2. Tools and resources
  • 29.3. Tutorials and examples
• 30. Maps and places
  • 30.1. Data sources
  • 30.2. Tools and resources
  • 30.3. Tutorials and examples
• 31. Creating collections
  • 31.1. Tools and resources
  • 31.2. Tutorials and examples

• Contributing to the Trove Data Guide
• References