Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

Sep 2020

If you try to share or bookmark the url of an item in RecordSearch (the National Archives of Australia’s online database), you’ll often get a ‘Session time out’ error when you access it. That’s because the urls only work within the current active RecordSearch session. So how can you create a shareable link that works across sessions? I’ve created a simple app that helps you create shareable links: recordsearch-links.glitch.me #dhhacks