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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 § archives § conference presentations § digital humanities ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Out of the cube

For a project that I’m working on at the National Museum of Australia, I’ve started collecting various sources of date-identified data. Most recently I had a go at extracting historical population data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The data can all be downloaded as .xls files, but they’re not simple, flat spreadsheets – they’re [...]

Posted 26 February 2010 † tim § experiments ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,