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

Tim Sherratt

Sharing recent updates and work-in-progress

17 Jan 2019

Nothing like browsing the databases of another country’s national/state archives to make you realise how useful the series system is…

16 Jan 2019

The Australian version of ‘Who’s responsible?’ is up! Just select a government function and explore the different agencies associated with it over time. It’s built with data from @naagovau’s RecordSearch. Try it live! #dhhacks

16 Jan 2019

New notebook added to the #GLAMWorkbench RecordSearch repository — get the basic details of agencies associated with all government functions used in @naagovau’s RecordSearch and save to a single JSON data file. View code and data. #dhhacks

16 Jan 2019

Hmm, wondering why the ‘National Council of Women of the Australian Capital Territory’ is assigned the function ‘CITIZENSHIP’ in @naagovau’s RecordSearch…

15 Jan 2019

As well as cross-posting updates to Twitter and Mastodon, I’ve now set up IFTTT to keep an eye on my micro.blog feed and post anything with the hashtag #dhhacks to my 101 DH Hacks FB page!

15 Jan 2019

Adventures in stemming, or what happens when you search Trove for 'naturalization'

Fun fact — the Porter stemming algorithm treats the words ‘naturalisation’ and ‘naturalization’ differently. Naturalisation is stemmed to ‘naturalis’, naturalization to ‘natur’. You can try this yourself using this NLTK stemming demo. Why d...
14 Jan 2019

I have a brand new updates page powered by micro.blog!