Closed Access

Some experiments in the meaning of 'access' through the National Archives of Australia's RecordSearch database.

Requirements

• recordsearch_tools

Description

harvest_closed.py

A harvester that will get all the files from RecordSearch with an access status of 'Closed' and save them to a MongoDB database.

analyse.py

Various tools, experiments and plots to explore the closed files.

changes.py

Explore differences between annual harvests.

Results

See the Closed Access site to explore the 2016 harvest.

More details and updates in my research notebook.