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Trove Data Guide

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
18. How to

Other digitised resources

19. Understanding digitised resources
20. Accessing data from digitised resources
21. Books
22. 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

Research pathways

26. Introduction
27. Using text
28. Using images
29. Collection and system data
30. Maps and places
31. Creating collections
- 31.1. Tools and resources
- 31.2. Tutorials and examples
  - Sharing a Trove List as a CollectionBuilder exhibition

Contributing to the Trove Data Guide
References

Repository
Open issue

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Digitised resources

25. Digitised resources#

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

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By Tim Sherratt

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The Trove Data Guide received investment from the Australian Research Data Commons (ARDC). The ARDC is funded by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).