Comments on: Too important not to try http://discontents.com.au/too-important-not-to-try/ working for the triumph of content over form, ideas over control, people over systems Fri, 03 Nov 2017 05:29:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8.17 By: Let’s dump out all the crayons and make a mess or How long would it take to get at all the cool digital stuff our libraries have? | THATCamp Digital Humanities and Libraries 2012 http://discontents.com.au/too-important-not-to-try/#comment-212 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:02:27 +0000 http://discontents.com.au/?p=1889#comment-212 […] There are two proximate inspirations for this proposal. The first is the brilliant and beautiful new Web site unveiled by the Rijks Museum (may we all be so good as to copy it): www.rijksmuseum.nl/en. One of the best things about the site is that everyone is encouraged to download hi-res versions of images and to re-use them—and it is dead simple to do. The second inspiration is the great work that Tim Sherratt (@wragge) has done and continues to do with digital collections at a variety of Australian institutions. (Seriously, someone give this man a job.) I particularly recommend looking carefully at the work Sherratt has done with digitized collections from the National Archives of Australia in projects like Invisible Australians. […]

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