Explore Trove's digitised newspapers by place

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I’ve updated my map displaying places where Trove digitised newspapers were published or distributed. You can view all the places on single map – zoom in for more markers, and click on a marker for title details and a link back to Trove.

A map of Australia with coloured markers indicating the number of Trove’s digitised newspapers published in different locations around the country.
A map of Australia with coloured markers indicating the number of Trove’s digitised newspapers published in different locations around the country.1672×1540 155 KB

If you want to find newspapers from a particular area, just click on a location using this map to view the 10 closest titles.

A map section focused on Walhalla in eastern Victoria with markers indicating nearby places where Trove’s digitised newspapers were published. A column on the right lists the newspaper titles.
A map section focused on Walhalla in eastern Victoria with markers indicating nearby places where Trove’s digitised newspapers were published. A column on the right lists the newspaper titles.2485×1309 308 KB

You can view or download the dataset used to construct the map. Place names were extracted from the newspaper titles using the Geoscience Gazetteer.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://updates.timsherratt.org/2022/09/05/explore-troves-digitised.html
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Hi,

Trying to run the trove harvester in Python - getting this error
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “”, line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File “”, line 88, in run_code
File "C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Scripts\troveharvester.exe_main.py", line 7, in
File “C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\trove_newspaper_harvester\cli.py”, line 211, in main
start_harvest(
File “C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\trove_newspaper_harvester\cli.py”, line 80, in start_harvest
harvester.harvest()
File “C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\trove_newspaper_harvester\core.py”, line 193, in harvest
self.delete_cache()
File “C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\site-packages\trove_newspaper_harvester\core.py”, line 134, in delete_cache
Path(cache_name).unlink(missing_ok=True)
File “C:\Users\pjthm\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python311\Lib\pathlib.py”, line 1147, in unlink
os.unlink(self)
PermissionError: [WinError 32] The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process: ‘data-20231114044135.sqlite’

Its as if the python script not relinquishing the file - any ideas?

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Hi Peter, not sure if you have solved this or not, I just had the same issue. I’m guessing the caching process is holding onto the temporary sqlite db but I have not dug into it to find a proper fix. A quick and dirty hack that worked for me to get it running is to disable the delete_cache(self): in the core.py file.
It means you will have a stray SQLite db file hanging around after run but you can delete that yourself.

def delete_cache(self):
#cache_name = f"{‘-’.join(self.harvest_dir.parts)}.sqlite"
#Path(cache_name).unlink(missing_ok=True)

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Hi Peter, sorry just noticed this. I’ve added the details to a GitHub issue in the Trove Newspaper Harvester repository: Permission error when deleting cache · Issue #7 · wragge/trove-newspaper-harvester · GitHub Seems to be a Windows thing as I can’t replicate myself, but I’ll investigate further.