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Australian Prime Ministers

Australian Prime Ministers is the definitive metacollection of online materials about the country’s most powerful political office. Hosted by the Museum of Australian Democracy, the site contains biographies of every prime minister, articles on related topics, and an unmatched cross-institutional collection of primary and secondary research materials.

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In addition to a custom, full-featured CMS for delivering rich editorial content, the site harvests and indexes participating online cultural collections, presenting a unified search interface across materials held by libraries, archives, museums, universities, and communities around Australia.

Powered by Elasticsearch and a custom-built Ruby web crawler, the search platform allows researchers, students and other site visitors to search the full text of a growing set of more than 40,000 records. Advanced search options offer filtering by prime minister, record type, date, source and organisation.

Rich biographies

Each biography features rare photographs, historical events and embedded collection results
Rich biographies

Multiple collections

The site harvests online & offline materials from institutions across Australia
Multiple collections

Cross-collection search

A unified search across multiple collections brings records together for the first time
Cross-collection search

Collection visualisation

Giving users insight into the shape of more than a century of records
Collection visualisation

Prime ministers in social media

Tracking daily Twitter activity across people and topics
Prime ministers in social media