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Embedded archives

Some of you may have noticed that my Hacking a research project post featured a file from the National Archives of Australia embedded as a Cooliris widget. Huh? To jog your memory, here it is again: No, it’s not just an image, it’s a little 3D wall. You can pan and zoom to your heart’s [...]

Posted 27 June 2010 † tim § hacks ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Cooliris-enabled scrapbook

There’s more 3D goodness for you to enjoy now that the Mapping our Anzacs scrapbook is Cooliris-enabled. If you have Cooliris installed, you’ll notice that the Cooliris icon on your browser toolbar lights up when you visit the site. Just click on the icon to browse all the photos posted to the scrapbook on a [...]

Posted 09 February 2009 † tim § hacks ‡ Comments (4) ° 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: , , , ,

Archives in 3D

The new version of my Greasemonkey userscript, RecordSearch Image Tools, gives RecordSearch’s digital image pages a rather new look. My previous version had done away with the tired ol ‘lemon-chiffon’ background colour, but I decided it was time to get a bit more adventurous, so I blitzed the old design and rebuilt the page from [...]

Posted 17 December 2008 † tim § archives § hacks ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , ,