Significance at Scale understanding the value of 150 million newspaper articles

Tim Sherratt (@wragge) University of Canberra

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http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102017012

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Small Stories

http://chineseaustralia.org/a-mothers-struggle/

Big Pictures

http://dhistory.org/querypic/

http://viraltexts.org/

Community Collaborations

https://www.nla.gov.au/blogs/trove/2014/05/15/troves-volunteers

3,082,478!

Individual Passions

‘I found a great website to view really old newspapers in perth. Just found a few swan river shark stories…’

http://fishwrecked.com/forum/swan-river-bull-shark-attacks

http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Shark-barrier-to-go-up-at-Coogee/7647609/

just a samplehttp://trovespace.webfactional.com/traces/

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/sources/trove

Elegant Elephant

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/elegant-elephant-2

1959 (1 Elephant)

Now (42 Elephants)

http://eyespast.herokuapp.com/

Tim Sherratt discontents.com.au

@wragge