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Monthly Archives January 2009

MoA buttons galore

Mapping our Anzacs, in case you don’t know, provides a Google map interface to the 375,000+ WWI service records held by the National Archives of Australia. Amongst other other things, you can add scrapbook posts to individual entries and create tributes. It’s meant to encourage exploration, so go on… explore! If you’ll do, you’ll notice [...]

Posted 30 January 2009 † Tim Sherratt § archives § hacks ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,

Cloudy biographies and portrait walls

With a bit of time to play over Christmas I had a go at applying some of the techniques described at ProgrammingHistorian to the ADB Online.  I thought it might be interesting to create some word clouds, both for what they could reveal about the content of the ADB, and to see what they had [...]

Posted 24 January 2009 † Tim Sherratt § experiments ‡ Comments (1) ° Tagged: , , , , ,