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Liberating lives: invisible Australians and biographical networks

Presented at the Life of Information Symposium, 24 September 2010. Slides are available on Slideshare. This palm print belongs to a 12-year-old boy called Charlie Allen. Charlie was born in Sydney in 1896. His mother was Frances Allen (sometime sweet shop owner and brothel keeper), his father Charlie Gum (a buyer for Wing On company). [...]

Posted 28 September 2010 † Tim Sherratt § archives ‡ Comments (4) ° Also tagged: , , , ,

(a not so) Quick catch up

The trained guinea pigs in the Wragge Labs bunker have been churning out all sorts of stuff in the last few months, and I’m way behind in my attempts to document their activities. So this is a bit of a catch-up post to try and commit a few pertinent details to the collective memory bank [...]

Posted 08 May 2010 † Tim Sherratt § experiments § the shed ‡ Comments (3) ° 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 Sherratt § experiments ‡ Comments (1) ° Also tagged: , , , ,