Tim Sherratt - Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

03 Mar 2020

I’ve added some more documentation to the Trove Newspaper Harvester page in the #GLAMWorkbench. Get your @TroveAustralia newspaper articles in bulk! #dhhacks #collectionsasdata

27 Feb 2020

New section added to the #GLAMWorkbench with examples from @Library_Vic! #slvdata #dhhacks #collectionsasdata

27 Feb 2020

More fun with @iiif_io and images from @library_vic – resize, rotate, crop and more! Try it out with this new notebook in the #GLAMWorkbench. #slvdata #dhhacks

26 Feb 2020

New #GLAMWorkbench notebook! Download images from @Library_Vic using IIIF and Handle… #dhhacks

22 Feb 2020

And for a taste of the recent additions to @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals, check out this thread.

22 Feb 2020

Explore @TroveAustralia’s digitised journals with this simple app. Now updated with the latest additions to Trove, and a new page for government publications. #dhhacks

21 Feb 2020

Want to save @TroveAustralia newspaper articles as images (that aren’t sliced up in annoying ways)? There’s an app for that in the #GLAMWorkbench. #dhhacks

20 Feb 2020

I’ve updated the repository of data transcribed from White Australia policy records in @naagovau. Remember to follow @invisibleaus for daily snapshots.

20 Feb 2020

I’ve added a few updates to my ‘Digital tools and such like…’ list for Australian historians. Hope you find it useful! #ozhist

17 Feb 2020

New ‘Trove images' section added to the #GLAMWorkbench! Here you’ll find my latest Jupyter notebook harvesting data about the use of standard licences & rights statements in Trove’s picture zone. #dhhacks

14 Feb 2020

Ok, the LODBook Jekyll plugin is cleaned & commented enough for me to put it aside for a while and work on the theme and data structure. I also took the opportunity to improve the way context strings are created…

14 Feb 2020

Voting in the 2019 @dhawards is now open! Go and check out all the cool #DigitalHumanities projects from around the world. And while you’re there, you might like to vote for my #GLAMWorkbench in the ‘Tools’ category!

31 Jan 2020

Gathering together videos of past presentations. Here they are on YT: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAclcciEeCD3INz0o1t_E9-bkW_BWTmSv and Vimeo: vimeo.com/showcase/…

20 Dec 2019

Archived via Zenodo – ‘Inigo Jones: the weather prophet’ – exploring our desire for certainty amidst a highly variable climate. doi.org/10.5281/z…

20 Dec 2019

Archived via Zenodo – ‘Civilization versus the giant, winged lizards’ – a thing I wrote about the climate emergency in 2006. doi.org/10.5281/z…

Screenshot of Zenodo record
17 Dec 2019

One of my favourite things this year was finally publishing ‘The People Inside' with @baibi — describing the start of our @invisibleaus experiments eight years ago with records relating to the White Australia policy held by @naagovau. doi.org/10.5281/z…

20 Nov 2019

New #GLAMWorkbench section with examples of how to get random-ish works and newspaper articles from @TroveAustralia. #dhhacks

19 Nov 2019

Did you make a DIY Exhibition from a @TroveAustralia list using my GitHub starter kit? If so, it’s probably broken. Never fear, here’s how you can upgrade your exhibition to use version 2 of the Trove API. #DHHacks

07 Nov 2019

The death and (hopefully) resurrection of Trove Twitter bots

Today version 1 of the Trove API was decommissioned. As I explained elsewhere, this meant that a number of Trove Twitter bots also died. The problem is that version 2 of the API provides no easy way to randomly select records. Bots, and oth...
21 Oct 2019

Updated my NSW public holidays data to include a few extras proclaimed by the government: nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/wr…

09 Oct 2019

Creators and users of my Trove Twitter Bots, please read and share this update!

tl;dr Version 1 of the Trove API will be discontinued soon so Trove Twitter bots need to be upgraded. Unfortunately, Version 2 of the Trove API doesn’t support the random selection of resources, so the current behaviour of many bots will ch...
18 Sep 2019

Over the last few weeks I’ve been exploring ways of recording dates for 70,000 digitised pages from Sydney Stock Exchnage records in the @TheANUArchives. Here’s the progress so far

16 Sep 2019

Here’s my attempt to calculate NSW holidays from 1900 to 1950. It’s probably incomplete, but it’s a start… nbviewer.jupyter.org/github/wr…

11 Sep 2019

A couple of years ago I gave a talk in which I tried to justify what I do as research. I was going to turn it into an article, but never did. So here’s ‘The multiplication of contexts’ as a blog post.

04 Sep 2019

The @naagovau RecordSearch section of the #GLAMWorkbench has been updated with more notebooks to help you get Australian archives data in a usable form. glam-workbench.github.io/recordsea… Useful for #twitterstorians, #ozhist, & #govhack!