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Monthly Archives February 2010

Out of the cube

For a project that I’m working on at the National Museum of Australia, I’ve started collecting various sources of date-identified data. Most recently I had a go at extracting historical population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data can all be downloaded as .xls files, but they’re not simple, flat spreadsheets – they’re [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 † Tim Sherratt § experiments ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , , , , , , ,

Emerging technologies and the need to experiment

About a month ago I posted a copy of my report Emerging technologies for the provision of access to archives on Scribd. It’s already edging up towards a thousand reads, so I thought it was time I put a link in from here. The basic message is we need to experiment and find the spaces [...]

Posted 03 February 2010 † Tim Sherratt § archives § drafts ‡ Comments (3) °