Public Records Office Victoria open data
Public Records Office Victoria lists 33 datasets on discover.data.vic.gov.au. 30 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.
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33 datasetsThese are the datasets Public Records Office Victoria lists on discover.data.vic.gov.au. A vote asks us to serialise one. Only the licence can stop us, so a dataset without an open licence cannot take a vote.
| Dataset | Formats | Licence | Updated | Votes |
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| PROV 2022-23 Annual StatisticsPublic Record Office Victoria Annual Report. Output measures with respect to quantity and quality of services. | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV 2023-24 Approved Public Record Office Victoria Storage Suppliers (APROSS)APROSS sites are commercial facilities that have been inspected by PROV and approved for the storage of temporary and un-sentenced public records. For a complete list of APROSS sites see our website… | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | no download | |
| PROV Financial Statement 2022-23Approved Public Record Office Storage Supplier – the PROV program for the storage of records which the Keeper of Public Records has approved for eventual destruction or which are awaiting a decision as to their archival value. | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV Historic Plans Collection 1836-1984The 'Historic Plans Collection' was gathered together by the Lands Department as a collation of important early survey work done in Victoria. The plans are organised into 48 collections based on their purpose - road surveys, surveys of the coast and rivers, mining locations and… | ZIP | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV MapWarper Annotations 21-22Map annotations contributed by the public and staff since the tool ewas lauinched on the PROV MapWarper site https://mapwarper.prov.vic.gov.au | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV Recordkeeping Standards Framework Documents Issued 2022–23Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV Records Issued & Visitor Statistics 2022-2023Public Record Office Victoria operates two public reading rooms; one at the Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne and the other at the Ballarat Archives Centre in Ballarat. Records can also be accessed at the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre reading rooms and the Geelong… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| PROV Retention and Disposal Authority (RDA) Documents Issued or Varied 2022-23Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| Unassisted Inward Passengers 1852-1923Our shipping list data is a great place to start when searching for a family member who may have arrived in Victoria by boat. Did the person arrive into Victoria from overseas ports between 1852 and 1923? The lists are sometimes called “unassisted passenger lists”, as immigrants… | ZIP | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-07-22 | |
| Approved Public Record Office Victoria Storage Suppliers (APROSS)20-21Approved Public Record Office Storage Supplier – the PROV program for the storage of records which the Keeper of Public Records has approved for eventual destruction or which are awaiting a decision as to their archival value. | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-05-22 | |
| PROV Annual Report - Workforce data 2015-2016PROV Annual Report - Workforce data 2015-2016 | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-05-22 | |
| PROV Annual Report Measures 21-22Public Record Office Victoria Annual Report. Output measures with respect to quantity and quality of services. | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-05-22 | |
| PROV Approved Public Record Office Victoria Storage Suppliers (APROSS) 19_20APROSS sites are commercial facilities that have been inspected by PROV and approved for the storage of temporary and un-sentenced public records. For a complete list of APROSS sites see our website… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-05-22 | |
| PROV Approved Public Record Office Victoria Storage Suppliers (APROSS) 2022-23Approved Public Record Office Storage Supplier – the PROV program for the storage of records which the Keeper of Public Records has approved for eventual destruction or which are awaiting a decision as to their archival value. | CC-BY-4.0 | 2025-05-22 | no download | |
| PROV Policies issued in 2014 - 2015Public Record Office Victoria sets standards for the efficient management of public records under Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973. The standards apply to all records created by the Victorian Government and detail requirements for the creation, maintenance and use of… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-18 | |
| British Assisted Passengers to Victoria 1839-1871The data includes the name and age of the passenger, name of the ship and captain, date of arrival, and references to copies of the original paper lists on microfiche. These microfiche are held by many libraries and family history organisations across Victoria. Names were copied… | ZIP | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-17 | |
| Outwards Passengers from Victoria 1852-1915The data includes the name and age of the passenger, name of the ship and captain, date of arrival, and references to copies of the original paper lists on microfiche. These microfiche are held by many libraries and family history organisations across Victoria. Names were copied… | ZIP | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-17 | |
| Public Records Office Victoria WorkforceKey employee data compared across the last 2 years. | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-17 | |
| PROV Financial statementAssets The assets include both community and operating assets in the following four categories: Community assets These assets are the State’s archival collection. The collection was re-valued in 2012 - 2013 at $258.3m. Building assets Records repositories for storage of the… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| PROV Reading Room and Record Retrievals 22-23Public Record Office Victoria operates two public reading rooms; one at the Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne and the other at the Ballarat Archives Centre at the Eureka Centre in Ballarat. Records can also be accessed at the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre within… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| PROV Reading Room VisitorsEach year, up to 15,000 visitors attend the PROV reading room(s) to view original Victorian State Government historical records held within our collection. As 99% of our collection is in original hard copy format, a researcher must either order a record and request a remote… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| PROV Records Issued & Visitor Statistics 2014 - 2015Public Record Office Victoria operates two public reading rooms; one at the Victorian Archives Centre in North Melbourne and the other at the Ballarat Archives Centre in Ballarat. Records can also be accessed at the Bendigo Regional Archives Centre and Geelong Heritage Centre… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| PROV Victorian Community History Award winners 2022-23The Local History Grants program provides small grants to community organisations to support projects that preserve, record or publish Victorian local history. | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| PROV Workforce Data 21-22Workforce data showing headcount, fulltime, partime statistics by gender, age and classification. | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| Reading Room and Record Retrievals 20-21Each year, up to 15,000 visitors attend the PROV reading room(s) to view original Victorian State Government historical records held within our collection. As 99% of our collection is in original hard copy format, a researcher must either order a record and request a remote… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-12-16 | |
| Battle to Farm site dataThis data was compiled for the website 'Battle to Farm' (now deprecated) which shows digitised records for each returned soldier. The data includes the name of the soldier, details of the property they leased and links to further information and digitised records. | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-09-24 | no download | |
| PROV Recordkeeping Standards Framework Documents Issued 21-22Section 12 of the Public Records Act 1973 (Vic) requires the Keeper of Public Records to establish standards for the efficient management of public records and assist public offices in the application of those standards to records under their control. The Act requires public… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-07-09 | |
| PROV Alphabetical Places of Deposit listingPlaces of Deposit (PODS) are a range of historical societies, museums and genealogical organisations around regional and metropolitan Victoria have been appointed to hold temporary public records in their collections. PROV works with these organisations to support them in caring… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 | |
| PROV Index to Wills, Probate and Administration Records 1841-2009This data was largely compiled by volunteers working with the Genealogical Society of Utah as part of a project to digitise Victorian probate records for the nineteenth and first part of the twentieth century. Later data was compiled by staff of the Supreme Court of Victoria… | ZIP | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 | |
| PROV Output Measures 2017–18Output measures with respect to quantity and quality of services for the last 2 years. | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 | |
| PROV Records Issued (through the Reading Room to the public)Public Record Office Victoria is the archives of the State Government of Victoria. We hold approximately 100kms of records from the mid 1830s to today, which we manage for use by the Government and people of Victoria. The Collection includes memories of events and decisions… | CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 | |
| PROV Victorian Government Agencies and Collections metadataPublic Record Office Victoria has compiled a short administrative history for every government agency whose records we hold, as well as a history of every recordkeeping 'series' (or collection) that has been transferrred to us. This information helps researchers identify who… | XML | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 | |
| Records transferred to PROV custodyPublic Record Office Victoria is the archives of the State Government of Victoria. The Collection includes memories of events and decisions great and small that have shaped the history of the Colony and State of Victoria, as well as records of immigration and shipping, criminal… | ALL_API, CSV | CC-BY-4.0 | 2024-06-13 |
Listed from the portals' own catalogues, read 28 September 2026. Public Records Office Victoria has not endorsed this site. Every dataset here keeps its publisher's licence and attribution. catalogue.json has this list as data.