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title: State Library of Western Australia open data
resource: https://publicdata.au/wa/state-library-of-western-australia/
jurisdiction: Western Australia
catalogue_read: 2026-09-28
not_endorsed: true
---

# State Library of Western Australia open data

State Library of Western Australia lists 35 datasets on catalogue.data.wa.gov.au and data.gov.au. 35 of them have an open licence and a file or API we can read.

## On the portals

- [Bird Songs Online](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/bird-songs-online) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [State Library of Western Australia digital photographic collection](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/slwa-digital-photographic-collection) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2023-08-11)
- [Richard Woldendorp Collection of Photographs](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/richard-woldendorp-collection-of-photographs) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, XLSX; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2023-05-01)
- [State Library of Western Australia: WA Theatre Ephemera](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/state-library-of-western-australia-wa-theatre-ephemera) (CSV, XML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2023-05-01)
- [Adopt a Soldier](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/adopt-a-soldier) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Bird songs online](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/bird-songs-online) (CSV, MODSXML, XML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Digital Photographic Collection](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/digital-photographic-collection) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [In Memoriam Cards](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/in-memoriam-cards) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Krantz & Sheldon Architectural images](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/krantz-sheldon-architectural-images) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Lands and Surveys Historic Map Series](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/lands-and-surveys-historic-map-series) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Newspaper Titles at State Library of WA](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/newspaper-titles-at-state-library-of-wa) (CSV; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/obituaries-indexed-by-state-library-of-wa) (CSV, DOCX, XLSX; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [SLWA Commonwealth Games photographs](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/slwa-commonwealth-games-photographs) (CSV, XML; CC-BY-SA-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [State Library of Western Australia Digitised Maps 1840-1985](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/state-library-of-western-australia-digitised-maps-1840-1985) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [WA Public Libraries](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wa-public-libraries) (CSV, GEOJSON, KML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [WABI Subset: Eastern Goldfields](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wabi-subset-eastern-goldfields) (CSV; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [WABI subset: Police](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wabi-subset-police) (CSV; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [WABI subset: York](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wabi-subset-york) (CSV; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI)](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/western-australian-biographical-index-wabi) (CSV, DOCX, ZIP; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [WWI Centenary Project](https://catalogue.data.wa.gov.au/dataset/wwi-centenary-project) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-4.0; updated 2022-05-25)
- [Adopt a soldier](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/adopt-a-soldier) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [In Memoriam Cards](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/in-memoriam-cards) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Krantz & Sheldon Architectural images](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/krantz-sheldon-architectural-images) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Lands & Surveys Historic Map Series Western Australia](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/lands-surveys-historic-map-series-western-australia) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, ZIP; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Obituaries indexed by State Library of WA](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/obituaries_slwa) (CSV, DOCX, XLSX; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Richard Woldendorp Collection of Photographs](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/richard-woldendorp-collection-of-photographs) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML, XLSX; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [SLWA Commonwealth Games photographs](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/slwa-commonwealth-games-photographs) (CSV, MARCXML; CC-BY-2.5-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [State Library of Western Australia Digitised Maps 1840-1985](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/the-state-library-of-wa-digitised-maps) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [State Library of Western Australia: WA Theatre Ephemera](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/wa-theatre-ephemera) (CSV, XML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [WABI subset: Eastern Goldfields](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/wabi-subset-eastern-goldfields) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [WABI Subset: Police](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/wabi-subset-police) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [WABI subset: York](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/wabi-subset-york) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Western Australian Biographical Index (WABI)](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/western-australian-biographical-index-wabi) (CSV, DOCX, ZIP; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [Western Australian Newspapers 1830 -](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/western-australian-newspapers-1830) (CSV; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)
- [WWI Centenary Project](https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/wwi-centenary-project) (CSV, MARCXML, MODSXML; CC-BY-3.0-AU; updated 2022-04-07)

Full list: https://publicdata.au/wa/state-library-of-western-australia/catalogue.json