trove -- it's bigger on the inside

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A brief introduction to Trove for the 2014 GovHack Data Jam, 3 June 2014.

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Trove Yes, it’s bigger on the inside…

A collection of collections

• Libraries • Archives • Museums • Galleries • Universities • Research organisations • Government agencies • Historical societies • & more

Trove harvests metadata from hundreds of

Library holdings from around the country

Where can I

borrow this

book?

Millions of images and objects

I’m from

the Museum

of Victoria

The latest research from university repositories

Probabilistic

Human-Robot

Information

Fusion, PhD

Sydney, 2008

More than 200,000 stories from Radio National

All of AM, PM

and The World

Today from

1999 to now!

• CSIRO publications

• Theatrical performances from AusStage

• Legal opinions from the Attorney-General’s Dept

• User-created lists

& much more…

Mostly metadata

except for…

More than 120 million newspaper articles!

• 127 million newspaper articles

• 18 million books • 8 million images

• 500,000 maps • 3 million sound & video • 35,000 lists

1 API }

Read the docs http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove

Play with data http://troveconsole.herokuapp.com/

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