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

1. Trove
Yes, it’s bigger on the inside…

2. A collection of collections

3. • Libraries
• Archives
• Museums
• Galleries
• Universities
• Research organisations
• Government agencies
• Historical societies
• & more
Trove harvests
metadata from
hundreds of

4. Library holdings
from around the
country
Where can I
borrow this
book?

5. Millions of
images and
objects
I’m from
the Museum
of Victoria

6. The latest
research from
university
repositories
Probabilistic
Human-Robot
Information
Fusion, PhD
Sydney, 2008

7. More than
200,000 stories
from Radio
National
All of AM, PM
and The World
Today from
1999 to now!

8. • CSIRO publications
• Theatrical performances
from AusStage
• Legal opinions from the
Attorney-General’s Dept
• User-created lists
& much more…

9. Mostly metadata
except for…

10. More than
120 million
newspaper
articles!

11. • 127 million newspaper
articles
• 18 million books
• 8 million images
• 500,000 maps
• 3 million sound & video
• 35,000 lists
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12. Read the docs
http://help.nla.gov.au/trove/building-with-trove
Play with data
http://troveconsole.herokuapp.com/