Finding aids as open data: Access points to data-drive stories of the past

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Archives indexes from New South Wales are released or scraped into GitHub and the GLAM Workbench and get interrogated with CartoDB, Trove and simple scripts to ask real questions: the unemployed Sydney 1866 index contains 3,000 names and maps to Rocks and Pyrmont hotspots; publicans licences show a mid‑1850s spike caused by duplicated certificate and summary entries, not a goldrush; convict marriage registers yield about 8,400 entries and reveal permissions denied for already‑married women; a lightweight Twitter bot built with cheapbotsdonequick publishes fictional archival lines and generates real engagement.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 4:50Finding aids Definition (Society of American Archivists)
3. 10:43GLAM data...
4. 13:04AGLAM Workbench
5. 40:41Finding aids as open data

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