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title: State Library of South Australia open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/sa/state-library-of-south-australia/
jurisdiction: South Australia
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
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# State Library of South Australia open data

State Library of South Australia lists 38 datasets on data.gov.au and data.sa.gov.au. 26 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.

## On the portals

- [Libraries Board of South Australia Annual Report data](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/libraries-board-of-south-australia-annual-report-data) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2024-12-05)
- [SA Memory (State Library of South Australia)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/sa-memory-state-library-of-south-australia) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [South Australian Photographs (State Library of South Australia)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-photographs-state-library-of-south-australia) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [South Australian Sheet Music (State Library of South Australia)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-sheet-music-state-library-of-south-australia) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [19th Century Photographs by Captain Samuel Sweet](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-captain-samuel-sweet) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2022-01-24)
- [River Murray general plan SA, 1910](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/river-murray-general-plan-sa-1910) (TXT; CC-BY; updated 2022-01-24)
- [South Australians of World War 1 Photographs Flickr set](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australians-of-world-war-1-photographs-flickr-set) (API, JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-02-24)
- [Art Deco Adelaide](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/art-deco-adelaide) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Beaches, Jetties and Lifesaver Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/beaches-jetties-and-lifesaver-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Departed spirits: Lost pubs of Adelaide](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/departed-spirits-lost-pubs-of-adelaide) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Hundred maps](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/hundred-maps) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Lost Adelaide Architecture Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/lost-adelaide-architecture-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Maps and Charts](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/maps-and-charts) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [River Murray Steamers Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/river-murray-steamers-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Significant South Australians Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/significant-south-australians-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [South Australia in 1914](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australia-in-1914) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Summer Under Southern Skies](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/summer-under-southern-skies) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2020-01-15)
- [Murray Bridge Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/murray-bridge-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2019-11-15)
- [Water in South Australia Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/water-in-south-australia-photographs) (JPEG; CC-BY; updated 2019-11-15)
- [19th Century Photographs by Townsend Duryea](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-townsend-duryea) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Newspaper Articles relating to Sir Ross Smith](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/newspaper-articles-relating-to-sir-ross-smith) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Old Colonists photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/old-colonists-photographs) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Oral Histories](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/oral-histories) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Photographs relating to Sir Ross Smith and Sir Keith Smith](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/photographs-relating-to-sir-ross-smith-and-sir-keith-smith) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [S. A. Speaks: An Oral History of Life in South Australia before 1930](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/s-a-speaks-an-oral-history-of-life-in-south-australia-before-1930) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Ship Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/ship-photographs) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [South Australian Photographs](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-photographs) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [South Australian Photographs World War 1 1914-1929](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-photographs-world-war-1-1914-1929) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [South Australian Sheet Music 1852-1927](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-sheet-music-1852-1927) (CSV; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-29)
- [Dewey call numbers used in the South Australian Public Library One Card Network](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/dewey-call-numbers-used-in-the-south-australian-public-library-one-card-network) (CSV; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-28)
- [Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper 1915-1919](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/heroes-of-the-great-war-chronicle-newspaper-1915-1919) (CSV, DOC, TXT; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-07)
- [Heroes of the Great War Chronicle Newspaper Portraits 1915-1919](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/heroes-of-the-great-war-chronicle-newspaper-portraits-1915-1919) (CSV, DOC, TXT; CC-BY; updated 2019-08-07)
- [19th Century Photographs by Ernest Gall](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/19th-century-photographs-by-ernest-gall) (CSV, XLSX; CC-BY; updated 2017-07-06)
- [Bradman Collection](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/bradman-collection) (CSV, TXT; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-06)
- [South Australian Red Cross Information Bureau](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/south-australian-red-cross-bureau) (JSON; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-04)
- [Election Ephemera](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/election-ephemera) (CSV; CC-BY; updated 2016-07-01)
- [Australia 1:63,360 military survey (S.A.), 1914-1958](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/australia-1-63-360-military-survey-s-a-1914-1958) (CSV, TXT; CC-BY; updated 2016-06-08)
- [Adelaide plan 40 feet to 1 inch, fire insurance maps, 1911-1914](https://data.sa.gov.au/data/dataset/adelaide-plan-40-feet-to-1-inch-fire-insurance-maps-1911-1914) (CSV, TXT; CC-BY; updated 2016-06-06)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/sa/state-library-of-south-australia/catalogue.json