This is the text of my keynote address to the Digisam conference on Open Heritage Data in the Nordic Region held in Malmö on 25 April 2013. You can also view the video and slides of my talk, or experience…
This is the text of my keynote address to the Digisam conference on Open Heritage Data in the Nordic Region held in Malmö on 25 April 2013. You can also view the video and slides of my talk, or experience…
Here’s the video of my talk at the 2013 Australian Digital Alliance Copyright Forum on 1 March 2013. Or if you’d prefer the bizarro version you can read YouTube’s automatic captions.
I recently gave a presentation in the Institute of Historical Research’s Digital History Seminar series. The time difference between London and Canberra was a bit of a challenge, so I pre-recorded the presentation and then sat in my own Twitter…
Last week I took my daughter to Sydney so she could attend a girls-only Minecraft workshop at the Powerhouse Museum (they created some wonderful things). It was a 3½ bus journey each way, so to keep myself occupied I set…
I obviously did a lot of talking in 2012, but I also made a few things… The evolution of QueryPic At the start of 2012 QueryPic was a fairly messy Python script that scraped data from the Trove newspaper database…
In an attempt to try and figure out where this year went I’ve pulled together a list of my talks, presentations and workshops for 2012… 7 January 2012 — ‘Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy’, contribution to the…
Presented at the Reinventing Archival Methods workshop, 29 November 2012, in Sydney. One weekend, a bit over a year ago, I built this — a wall of faces of people forced to live within the restrictions of the White Australia…
There’s been plenty of discussion within the digital humanities community about the difficulty of getting academic recognition for digital projects. But what about being recognised for alternative forms of teaching? I don’t mean online courses, I mean the sort of…
On Friday 19 October I joined an enthusiastic group of digital humanities explorers at a Deakin University event entitled Dipping a Toe into the Digital Humanities and Creative Arts. @catspyjamasnz has assembled an excellent summary of the day in Storify.…
Recently I gave a presentation at the University of Melbourne’s Faculty of Arts eResearch Forum. The slides for my talk, ‘Digital Disruptions: Finding New Ways to Break Things’, are available online (thanks to reveal.js). I also managed to make a…
Yep, there’s a new version of QueryPic. About 18 months ago I created a little Python script to visualise search results in Trove’s collection of digitised newspapers. After a bit more tweaking. I christened it QueryPic. People started to use…
I’m deeply in love with the collections of the National Archives of Australia. They move me, they inspire me, they make me want to do something. How do I express my love? I’ve written stories about things like atomic bombs,…
Last Saturday I was amongst a group of enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteers getting stuck in to the ‘Doing our bit’ project at the Mosman Library. The Build-a-thon was the first stage in creating a new online resource documenting the experiences…
[View in Storify] A little hack to reveal faces in the archives.
On 15 April 1944 the Sydney Morning Herald turned inside out. For more than a hundred years, the front page had been dominated by advertisements, but this changed suddenly in 1944 as the newspaper took on a completely new look.…
[view on Storify] This is a story about a thing I made. I’m still not sure what to call it. Or what it’s really for. But I like it. And I hope other people will too…
There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and…
Earlier this week it was announced that the Mosman Library had been awarded a Library Development Grant for an innovative project that aims to document stories and artefacts relating to the First World War. I’m very excited to be part of it.…
Yes, I have a suit. On 8 May at the National Library of Australia I gave my suit an outing as I delivered my Harold White Fellowship presentation. Thanks to everyone who came along. If you missed it or want…
