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Some storage nodes return HTTP 500 for some files; the fetcher records and retries."},{"key":"bhl","name":"Biodiversity Heritage Library (API v3)","publisher":"Biodiversity Heritage Library","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"api","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"per item (BHL item licence or rights statement)","status":"candidate","address":{"url":"https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/api3","checked_on":"2026-10-23"},"notes":"Returns 'invalid or unauthorized API key' without a key (checked 23 Oct 2026); web pages refuse scripted access. Key is free with a BHL account; the owner registers."},{"key":"gazetteer-au","name":"Gazetteer of Australia (historic and current place names)","publisher":"Intergovernmental Committee on Surveying and Mapping","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"download","default_kind":"observed","licence":"unknown: to confirm","status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":null},{"key":"gutenberg-au","name":"Project Gutenberg Australia and Wikisource (published journals of surveyors and explorers)","publisher":"Project Gutenberg Australia; Wikisource","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"download","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"public domain in Australia (per text, to confirm)","status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":null},{"key":"historical-ecology-literature","name":"Published historical-ecology syntheses (leads and cross-checks only, never sources of passages)","publisher":"various","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"document","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":null,"status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":"Cited as leads; passages always come from the primary text."},{"key":"museum-specimens","name":"Historic preserved specimens via the ALA occurrence API (aggregated per place, decade and group; rows linked, never stored)","publisher":"Atlas of Living Australia (data from herbaria and museums)","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"api","default_kind":"observed","licence":"per data resource (recorded with each aggregate)","status":"connected","address":{"url":"https://api.ala.org.au/occurrences/occurrences/search","checked_on":"2026-10-23"},"notes":null},{"key":"prov","name":"Public Record Office Victoria (survey field books, Crown Lands correspondence)","publisher":"Public Record Office Victoria","jurisdiction":"VIC","access":"portal","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"unknown: per series","status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":"Manual leads only in v0.1."},{"key":"slv","name":"State Library Victoria manuscripts, maps and diaries (largely indexed by Trove)","publisher":"State Library Victoria","jurisdiction":"VIC","access":"portal","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"unknown: per item","status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":null},{"key":"trove-journals","name":"Trove digitised journals and books (API v3, magazine and book categories)","publisher":"National Library of Australia","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"api","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"unknown: per item","status":"candidate","address":null,"notes":"Same key as trove-newspapers."},{"key":"trove-newspapers","name":"Trove digitised newspapers and gazettes (API v3)","publisher":"National Library of Australia","jurisdiction":"AU","access":"api","default_kind":"source_reported","licence":"unknown: NLA API terms to confirm; pre-1955 text generally out of copyright","status":"candidate","address":{"url":"https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/result","checked_on":"2026-10-23"},"notes":"Returns 401 without a key (checked 23 Oct 2026). Key needs a Trove account; the owner registers. Rate limit unknown until issued."},{"key":"vicnames","name":"Vicmap localities and parishes (VICNAMES ids), open-data WFS","publisher":"Victorian Government (DTP / Land Use Victoria)","jurisdiction":"VIC","access":"map_service","default_kind":"observed","licence":"CC BY 4.0 (Vicmap open data)","status":"connected","address":{"url":"https://opendata.maps.vic.gov.au/geoserver/wfs","checked_on":"2026-10-23"},"notes":null}],"changelog":[{"date":"2026-10-23","note":"First draft. 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