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Case Studies

Where the tutorials each teach one capability (such as visualisation or search), these case studies explore collections end to end, from loading the crate to reporting on findings. They build on the techniques in the tutorials, so if you are new to crategraph, start with the tutorials and come back here to see the pieces working together.

Available case studies

  • Lifelines of the Encyclopedia of Melbourne — Separate a collection's biographical subjects from its authors, enrich them with birthplaces by following relationships, and read social history off a timeline of 1,241 lives.
  • Navigating the Encyclopedia of Australian Science — Work through a curator's research questions across the Encyclopedia of Australian Science: isolated records and thin links, name variants, events on a given day, a whole period drawn as a network, the establishment of awards, who built the collection, a word cloud and gallery of its contents, and resolving a person against Wikidata.
  • Women in the Encyclopedia of Australian Science — Build a verified subset of the women recorded in EOAS, then read their history off it: when they begin to appear, which fields they entered and how that shifts by decade, where they came from, and the medals they shared. (Draft.)
  • Exploring the Australian Radio Talkback corpus — Profile the people and recordings of a radio-transcript collection, build and visualise a speaker network, search the transcripts in plain language, then hand the text to NLP tools for sentiment, named entities, and topics. (Draft.)

Data sources

These case studies use openly available datasets. Please attribute the original collections if you reuse the data, and check each collection's own terms of use before reusing it.

  • eMelbourne — The Encyclopedia of Melbourne Online (lifelines case study). Source: emelbourne.net.au.
  • Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation (EOAS) and University of Melbourne Perpetual Calendar (UMPC) (questions case study). Source: eoas.info and the UMPC website. The EOAS crate is also used by the women case study.
  • Australian Radio Talkback (ART) (talkback case study). A linguistics corpus archived by Macquarie University, licensed CC BY 4.0. Source: LDaCA (DOI 10.25949/24769434.v1).