About me

Tim Sherratt

THIS SITE HAS BEEN ARCHIVED… YOU CAN FIND ME AT TIMSHERRATT.ORG.

I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. I’ve worked across the cultural heritage sector and have been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. My creations include useful things like QueryPic, strange things like the Vintage Face Depot, and important things like The Real Face of White Australia. I’m currently Associate Professor of Digital Heritage at the University of Canberra. You can find me at timsherratt.org or as @wragge on Twitter.

Here’s my CV (PDF).

Other sites

• timsherratt.org
• Digital Heritage Handbook — teaching, workshops & doucmentation
• Research Notebook — current research projects
• WraggeLabs — some older experiments
• ORCID 0000-0001-7956-4498

Selected posts

• The language of Parliament, Museum of Australian Democracy, 6 March 2017
• The practice of play, 25 February 2017
• Caring about access, 12 November 2016
• Turning the inside out, 24 October 2016
• A life reduced to data, 25 August 2016
• Closed access, 21 July 2016
• The perfect face. 13 October 2015
• Unremembering the forgotten, 3 July 2015
• Stories for machines, data for humans, 10 April 2015
• Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world, 3 February 2015
• Life on the outside: Collections, contexts and the wild, wild web, 20 September 2014
• From portals to platforms, NLA staff papers, 5 November 2013
• Conversations with collections, 24 June 2013
• ‘A map and some pins’: open data and unlimited horizons, 11 June 2013
• Archives of emotion, 28 November 2012
• Small stories in a big data world, 20 November 2012
• The future of the past, Storify, May 2012
• The people inside, Storify, 2012
• It’s all about the stuff: collections, interfaces, power, and people, 1 December 2011
• Every story has a beginning, 4 October 2011
• The real face of White Australia, 21 September 2011
• I link therefore I am, 20 January 2010
• Pathways to memory, 17 November 1996