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Life on the outside: Collections, contexts, and the wild, wild web
Keynote presented at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for the Digital Humanities, 20 September 2014, Tsukuba. The full set of slides is available on SlideShare. Cross-published on...
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Sketching with Python and Plotly
I’m currently trying to make some progress with my ‘seams and edges’ paper for ALIAOnline 2015 and naturally ended up writing some code (what me procrastinate?). I was wondering about ways of...
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Seams and edges: Dreams of aggregation, access & discovery in a broken world
Presented at ALIA Online 2015, 3 February 2015 in Sydney. A longer version with bonus references will be made available on the ALIA Online site. Slides are on Slideshare. In March 1930 the Sydney...
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Myths, mega-projects and making
Keynote presented by video at EuropeanaTech 2015, 13 February 2015. The video of this presentation is available on Vimeo and the slides are on SlideShare. In the aftermath of World War II,...
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Asking better questions: History, Trove and the risks that count
Buy the book from NewSouth Press! This is the published version of my chapter ‘Asking better questions: History, Trove and the risks that count’ in the book CopyFight, edited by Phillipa McGuiness....
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I’d just arrived home on Monday evening when a tweet from the local ABC radio station appeared in my stream: ‘NOW: @nlagovau informs its staff of budget cuts’. An all-staff email describing the impact...
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Telling stories with data
Keynote presented at Working History, the Professional Historians’ Association Conference, 19 August 2016, Melbourne. Friends, I come bearing good news. For I have seen the future of history. Indeed I...
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The image above is from Geoff Hinchcliffe’s awesome visualisation of more than 12,000 #fundTrove tweets. This year I sadly left the wonderful team at Trove and took up a full-time academic post at the...
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Keynote presentation at the Deakin University Faculty of Arts and Education HDR Summer School, Geelong, 24 February 2017. Cite as: Tim Sherratt, ‘The Practice of Play’, presented at Deakin University...
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Time to take stock of the year that was… 2017 certainly had its ups and downs. In the middle of the year, my university’s management decided that they could do without undergraduate teaching in...
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