Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

View wragge's full-sized avatar

Tim Sherratt wragge

142 followers · 0 following
View GitHub Profile
@wragge
wragge / dh2015-abstract.md
Created May 8, 2015 03:53
Unremembering the forgotten -- my DH2015 abstract

#Unremembering the forgotten

Welcome to Australia in 2015 where 'remembering' is both an obligation and an opportunity. DH2015 comes just a few months after the 100th anniversary of the landing of Allied forces on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey -- the beginning of a failed military campaign that has long been linked to Australian nationhood. Over the next few years the remembering will roll along as centenaries of the events of World War I accumulate. More documentaries will be made, more websites built, more documents digitised, more memorials dedicated -- all to help us remember people and stories that are seen as in danger of being forgotten.

Who gets remembered and why? I'm a historian who works with digital cultural heritage collections. I'm a manager who helps maintain a national aggregation service that brings many of these collections together. I'm a hacker who wonders how I can subvert and play with their contents. In this talk I want to explore remembering from these different perspectives. As

@wragge
wragge / ndf2015-abstract.md
Created May 24, 2015 01:16
Draft abstract for NDF2015

#The perfect face

I've been playing around with facial detection technology for a few years. I'm interested in the possibilities of extracting faces from within cultural heritage collections and presenting them as points of access, exploration, analysis, and critique. Looking into another face creates a connection across time and culture, potentially opening space for empathy and obligation. But facial detection technology is more commonly used in security and marketing, where the face is something to be read for data -- for labelling or identification. Your face marks you out as a threat or a sales opportunity. How do those of us working with cultural data, who want to highlight the human dimensions of our collections, respond to the politics of facial detection and recognition? I want to present a few experiments ranging from the playful to the provocative. I also want to ponder what we look like to facial detection software. What is human in the eyes of a machine? What is the perfect face?

@wragge
wragge / recordsearch_show_pages.user.js
Last active December 3, 2021 09:58
RecordSearch Show Pages Userscript
// ==UserScript==
// @name RecordSearch Show Pages
// @namespace http://timsherratt.org/recordsearch_show_pages
// @description Enhances functionality of NAA's RecordSearch database
// @version 0.11
// @date 2021-12-03
// @creator Tim Sherratt
// @include https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ListingReports/ItemsListing.aspx*
// @include https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx*
// @include https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ViewImage.aspx*
@wragge
wragge / recordsearch_show_people.user.js
Last active August 17, 2020 00:51
Userscript to show some of the people inside the National Archives of Australia's collections.
// ==UserScript==
// @name RecordSearch -- People Inside
// @namespace http://wraggelabs.com/recordsearch_show_people
// @description Records are about people. This userscript enriches the National Archives of Australia's database by inserting images of some of those people.
// @version 0.3
// @date 2017-06-22
// @creator Tim Sherratt
// @include https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/ListingReports/ItemsListing.aspx*
// @include https://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/SearchNRetrieve/Interface/DetailsReports/ItemDetail.aspx*
// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest
@wragge
wragge / trove_show_people.user.js
Last active October 20, 2016 08:22
Userscript to insert pictures of people extracted from Trove newspaper articles in the search results.
// ==UserScript==
// @name Trove -- People Inside
// @namespace http://wraggelabs.com/trove_show_people
// @description Newspapers are about people. This userscript enriches Troves's newspaper results by inserting images of some of those people.
// @version 0.1
// @date 2015-06-9
// @creator Tim Sherratt
// @include http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?*&l-illustrated=true*&l-illtype=Photo*
// @grant GM_xmlhttpRequest
// @connect faceapi.herokuapp.com
@wragge
wragge / makeyourselection.py
Last active August 29, 2015 14:23
[{u'_id': u'5450780',
u'access_decision': {u'date_str': u'26 Nov 2014',
u'end_date': None,
u'start_date': u'2014-11-26'},
u'access_reason': [{u'note': u'BLANK', u'reason': u'MAKE YOUR SELECTION'},
{u'note': u'This item has been withheld pending access advice from an agency/agencies',
u'reason': u'Withheld pending adv'}],
u'access_status': u'Closed',
u'contents_dates': {u'date_str': u'1954 - 1969',
u'end_date': u'1969',
@wragge
wragge / diy-trove-exhibitions.md
Last active February 11, 2016 01:12
Details of #vala16 pop-up workshop on DIY Trove exhibitions

#VALA16 Pop-up workshop -- DIY Trove Exhibitions

When: 1.00-1.30pm, Thursday 11 February

Where: Recollect booth (no. 97) in the VALA Exhibition Hall

What:

We'll be working through the instructions provided on the DIY-Trove-Exhibitions repository. Bring a laptop and you can build your own exhibition on the spot!

@wragge
wragge / anzreg-lod-keynote.md
Created February 25, 2016 04:37

#Linked Open Data!

How many of you were at the VALA conference?

Lots and lots of discussion about LOD

  • Vocabularies
  • RDF
  • Triples
  • SPARQL
@wragge
wragge / digitalglam.md
Last active June 26, 2016 07:56
Abstract for digitalGLAM symposium

#Hacking heritage: power and participation in digital cultural collections

As cultural heritage collections become available in digital form they can be used and transformed by publics outside of existing institutions. But what are the limits of these new forms of engagement? Even as we hack around structures of professional and institutional authority and create new pathways into collections, barriers remain. Lack of technical confidence, legal uncertainties, and the inherent politics of access can all inhibit broader participation. Drawing on examples from Trove and the National Archives of Australia, this presentation will explore the meaning of 'access' within the frame of open data. What do we need to see cultural heritage collections differently?

To be presented at DigitalGLAM Symposium, 15 July, University of Melbourne.

@wragge
wragge / trove-translator-testing.md
Last active February 20, 2017 02:45
Install new Trove translator for testing

Trove translator testing

I've created a new Trove translator for Zotero which takes over the capture of newspaper articles from my old 'Australian newspapers' translator, and adds support for most of the other Trove zones as well.

I've submitted a pull request to have the new translator added to the Zotero repository, but if you're impatient and would like to help test it out, here's how to manually install it.

  • First find out where your translators folder is...
  • Open Zotero and choose 'Preferences > Advanced > Files & Folders'
  • Click on 'Show data directory'
  • Your Zotero data directory should open up -- it will include a directory called 'translators'