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Monthly Archives December 2011

Extracting editorials #2

As I explained in the first of this series, I’m documenting my efforts to extract every editorial published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1913 from the Trove newspaper database. It’s an experiment both in text mining and historical writing — an attempt to put the method up front. While I didn’t think there was anything [...]

Posted 19 December 2011 † Tim Sherratt § digital humanities § experiments § hacks ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power and people

This is the full version of a paper I presented at the National Digital Forum, 30 November 2011. In 1901, one of the first acts of the Commonwealth of Australia was to create a system of exclusion and control designed to keep the newly-formed nation ‘white’. But White Australia was always a myth. As well [...]

Posted 01 December 2011 † Tim Sherratt § archives § conference presentations § digital humanities ‡ Comments (10) ° Tagged: , , , , , ,