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Some archives hacking

It’s great to see that the National Archives of Australia has released a large swag of data through the new data.australia.gov.au site. In the Commonwealth Agencies zip file you can find xml dumps of all the publicly accessible agency and series data in RecordSearch, as well as item data for series A1. This is the [...]

Posted 05 November 2009 † Tim Sherratt § archives § hacks ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

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 [...]

Posted 24 August 2009 † Tim Sherratt § archives § experiments ‡ Comments (8) ° Also tagged: , , , , , ,