QANZAC 100 challenge

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A list of useful Queensland Government open datasets are tagged on data.qld.gov.au

• 11 November 2018 – 100th anniversary of the end of WW1
• Commemorating Queensland’s WW1 and Anzac history
• Over 80,000 digitised images, diaries and manuscripts
• Collecting WW1 diaries, letters, photographs and items for over 100 years

What is your solution?

We suggest you consider using the State Library of Queensland open datasets on data.qld.gov.au

Locating open data

Queensland Government open data is accessible at data.qld.gov.au. Search for other government open data at data.gov.au and local government websites.

Below is a list of open datasets and resources you might like to use for this challenge.

Open datasets

1. World War 1 soldier portraits (30,000 portraits)
2. Catalogue records, World War 1 (metadata records)
3. Soldier portraits from the Australasian Traveller
4. The Queenslander newspaper photographs 1914-1918
5. Photographs 1914-1918
6. Music Queensland – World War 1 subset
7. List of Queensland State Archives First World War records
8. Windsor Town Council Honour Roll 1914 to 1925
9. Soldier Settlement ledgers 1917 to 1929
10. Discharged Soldier Settler Loans 1917-1919

Resources

1. One Search – State Library of Queensland catalogue
2. One Searchone of the soldiers
3. Soldier Portraits
4. Discovering Anzacs website
5. QANZAC100 website
6. Consider:  music files available as open data or creative commons