I’ve been doing a fair bit of coding in recent weeks and I thought I’d better write a few details down before I forget about them.
As previously noted, I’ve been gathering together various historical data sets for a project at the National Museum of Australia. One resource that I was keen on including was the [...]
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working for the triumph of content over form, ideas over control, people over systems
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Harvesting context #1: Flickr comments
Instead of idly waiting for visitors to stumble over their holdings on some lonely information by-way, archives are starting to push their content out into the bustling metropolis of the social web. They are going where the people are. Photographic collections, in particular, are gaining new lives and new audiences thanks to Flickr.
But that’s only [...]
