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ADB DIY RSS

So I was thinking, wouldn’t it be nice if the Australian Dictionary of Biography‘s ‘born on this day‘ feature could be made available as an RSS feed. Every morning you’d get a new list of biographies delivered direct to your feed reader. And so… [sounds of xpath wrangling and PHP coding] here it is. It’s [...]

Posted 04 February 2009 † tim § hacks ‡ Comments (0) ° Also 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 § experiments ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,