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• The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians Work began on WABI in the early 1970s when information was sought on people who lived in Western Australian prior to 1914. Publicity was sent out through local libraries, historical groups and in publication such as the West Australian. Western Australians were asked to provide genealogical information, not only on prominent identities, but also from their family records including the arrival in Western Australia, occupations, dates of birth, marriages and deaths of their ancestors. Historical material such as diaries, letters, business records, minute books, maps, family trees and photographs, were also sought for copying. Entries for the index closed in December 1979, and were filed at the Battye Library for reference. We were recently delighted to discover that the WA Genealogical Society has made use of this dataset. You can view their use here: http://membership.wags.org.au/members-data/public-data/wabi-wa-biographical-index. 18
• Information about WA public libraries including: name, street and postal address, phone number, latitude, longitude and elevation from sea level. 2
• Photographs from the SLWA collection featuring the Commonwealth Games. Most if not all of the photographs are from the 1962 games held in Western Australia. Photographs include opening and closing ceremonies, athletes receiving medals and action shots from the event. The datasets include links to the images 2
• These datasets contain bibliographic records and some persistent URLs for posters and programs of WA Theatre productions and company ephemera; as well as out of copyright photographs of theatre and picture venues, events, people and places connected to the theatre sector held within the State Library of Western Australia’s collection. As a whole, these two sets provide a glimpse into the theatrical landscape of WA, from amateur societies to University theatres to professional companies; the venues which housed performances, and the people who put them on. The URLs in the "WA Theatre Posters, Programs, Ephemera" dataset contain a mixture of digitised images from the collection and the permanent bibliographic record in the State Library of Western Australia catalogue: URLS starting with “https://purl.slwa.wa.gov.au” or “https://slwa.wa.gov.au/images” are digitised items. URLs starting with “https://encore.slwa.wa.gov.au" are bibliographic records. The URLs in the "WA Theatre venues events people places 1896-1955" dataset are all digitised images. Some records have multiple URLs collated into one field. Each unique URL is separated by the ^ symbol and each corresponding caption appears sequentially in the following field. The captions are also separated by the ^ symbol. 2
• 1859 York district Census. Entry is by name of person, Place of occupation, age, religion, occupation, literacy, arrival ship and date. Details of marriage, wife and children and employer are given. The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians 1
• 50,000 digital photographs in which copyright has expired with bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of the digital image from the State Library of Western Australia Catalogue. We're delighted to announce this dataset was used in the prize winning GovHack 2016 competition entry, Colourful Past. https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/colourful-past The team summarized their entry thus: Colourful Past aims to create an immediate and lasting connection to our shared past, by giving you a channel to browse recorded in library or archive imagery. You’ll be directed to a set of monochrome or faded photos with a click your sense can feast on an enhanced colour version. 1
• A collection of more than 700 photographs of World War I soldiers was digitised in 1999 as part of the Adopt-A-Soldier project. We're delighted to announce that this set was recently used in GovHack 2016 for the iHero Application entry https://2016.hackerspace.govhack.org/content/ihero . Summary from the Entry: Our project ''iHero" is a web application that uses facial recognition to search Australian service photos across various conflicts as captured by the State Library of Western Australia, Australian War Memorial, National Archives of Australia and the State Library of Queensland. 1
• A large collection of photographs taken by photographer, Richard Woldendorp, including a wide variety of images of people, buildings, places, industries, sport and entertainment in Western Australia.The photographs were taken between 1958 - 2006. The images can be accessed via the urls provided in the data. Richard Woldendorp was born in Utrecht, The Netherlands in 1927 and migrated to Perth in 1951. His long association with photography began in 1955 when he purchased a camera for a trip back to The Netherlands. Woldendorp's fascination with photography and skill rapidly grew and in 1961 won first and third prizes in the Craven-A National Photographic competition. As a professional photographer Woldendorp was intrigued by Australia's landscapes with a special passion for aerial photography. In 1991 Woldendorp was made a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Professional Photography, then in 1998 was admitted as a Honorary Life Member to the Australian Commerical and Media Photographers (A.C.M.P.), then to the A.C.M.P. Hall of Fame. In 2004 Richard Woldendorp was named a Western Australian Living Treasure. 1
• Bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of Lands & Surveys Western Australian Historic Map Series of the 1880-1890s, showing State Land Divisions, pastoral leases with number, lessee, area, boundary length, location numbers, tracks, roads and their gazettal date. 1
• Bibliographic data and links to persistent URL of digital object for the Krantz & Sheldon Architectural images. Approximately 1000. 1
• Collection of "In Memoriam" cards with photographs of West Australians killed during the First World War, with brief biographical notes. 1
• John Hutchinson was an ornithologist and a birdcall recordist. This dataset includes all the bibliographic records for the digitised and available online bird song recordings in the SLWA catalogue. The records include links to the online recordings. More information about the collection can be found on the finding aid: http://www.slwa.wa.gov.au/pdf/mn/mn2001_2500/mn2367.pdf We're delighted to announce that this dataset was used as part of GovHack 2016 in the "Put a bird on it" entry. The team summarized their project thus: Did you know that in Australia, there are some 828 species of birds![1] So wouldn’t it be nice if our gadgets could tweet, chirp and cheep Australian bird sounds? At CatHacks, we thought we should literally ‘put a bird on it’ and made some ringtone and notification sounds of some of Australia’s finest. And many of these live in the Australian Capital Territory too! 1
• Nearly 900 Western Australian newspaper titles are held by the State Library. These range from the manuscript newspapers of the early 1830s up to currently published titles. Selected Western Australian newspaper titles are available digitally through Trove, a service provided by National Library of Australia in partnership with state libraries, including the State Library of Western Australia. Currently, there are 110 Western Australian newspaper titles available. This file includes the title, dates of publication, other titles (former and later) area of publication and some notes about individual publications. 1
• This dataset contains bibliographic records and persistent URLs for the digitised maps held within the State Library of Western Australia’s map collection, including cadastral and town-site maps across the state of Western Australia. The maps range from the early 1840s to the mid-1980s and include land use, zoning, lot numbers, boundary measurements, terms of sale, and locality plans; as well as distances from utilities, landmarks and businesses. Highlights include the Lindsay J. Peet Collection of Cadastral Maps; town-site maps from the WA Department of Lands and Surveys; the Australia Soviet Military City Plans, Perth; and the Polus Antarticus states, which show the South Pole and Australia prior to the discoveries of Tasman in 1642 and 1643-44. This set also includes the Historic map series 1880-1890 which has been captured as its own dataset. 1
• This dataset contains over 10,000 indexed records of obituaries found in Western Australian newspapers, newsletters and journals from the mid-1800s to early 2010s. The records were created by Library staff from the State Library of Western Australia (SLWA) between 1997 and 2014. Information captured includes: • the deceased’s name • year of birth and death • a title and summary of the obituary • the publication title and date it was printed in • the page number the obituary appears on 1
• This index has been compiled by Mrs T. Thompson of Kalgoorlie from the following cemeteries and cemetery records: * Old Boulder - Anglican Section of the Cemetery Board Register 224 names * Headstones all denominations 41 names * Roman Catholic 189 names * Baptist 12 names * Presbyterian 69 names * Church of Christ 9 names * General 6 names * Methodist section 290 names * Bulong Headstones 19 names * Kanowna Cemetery Board Register * Ora Banda Cemetery * Siberia Cemetery. Entry into the index is by name of person being buried and information given is what appears on the headstone or what is transcribed in the burial register. This can include age; relatives eg: parents, wives, husbands, children; date of death, where lived (from headstone) plus denomination, Officiating clergyman, date of burial, name of Undertaker, residence of friends (if known), remarks (if any), grave number section and subsection (from Register). The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: a csv file with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians 1
• This index was compiled by Miss Mollie Bentley from various records she has used relating to the police. These include: Almanac listings, Colonial Secretary's Office Records, Police Gazettes, various police department occurrence books and letter books, police journals, government gazettes, estimates, York police records etc. Entry is by name of policeman. Information given varies but is usually about appointments, promotions, retirements, transfers etc. The Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI) is a highly used resource at the State Library of Western Australia. A recent generous contribution by the Friends of Battye Library (FOBS) has enabled SLWA to have the original handwritten index cards scanned and later transcribed. The dataset contains: several csv files with data describing card number, card text and url link to image of the original handwritten card. The transcription was crowd-sourced and we are aware that there are some data quality issues including: * Some cards are missing * Transcripts are crowdsourced so may contain spelling errors and possibly missing information * Some cards are crossed out. Some of these are included in the collection and some are not * Some of the cards contain relevant information on the back (usually children of the person mentioned). This info should be on the next consecutive card * As the information is an index, collected in the 1970s from print material, it is incomplete. It is also unreferenced. It is still a very valuable dataset as it contains a wealth of information about early settlers in Western Australia. It is of particular interest to genealogists and historians. 1
• To mark the centenary of World War I, the State Library is in the process of digitising material relating to this conflict. Items include photographs, books, letters, diaries, greeting cards and more. 1