| 0:05inside confession spies | |
| 0:08impact on | |
| 0:09week every copyright | |
| 0:14if | |
| 0:18i don't want to have to kya | |
| 0:25uh... think specific rules while applying | |
| 0:29in my technique | |
| 0:32disdain system site | |
| 0:38he'd | |
| 0:41dot con |
| $(function(){ | |
| var trove_api_key = "Your API key"; // Add your API key | |
| var trove_api_url = "http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/result?zone=newspaper"; | |
| var start_year = 1803; | |
| var end_year = 1954; | |
| var current_year = 0; | |
| function get_random_article() { | |
| current_year = get_random_year(); // Get a random year first to limit the query size | |
| var query = trove_api_url + "&q=date:[" + current_year + " TO " + current_year + "]&n=0&l-category=Article&encoding=json&key=" + trove_api_key; |
| $(function(){ | |
| var api_key = 'your api key'; | |
| function get_data() { | |
| $.jsonp({ | |
| "callbackParameter": 'callback', | |
| "url": "http://api.trove.nla.gov.au/result?q= &zone=book,article,collection,picture,map,music&facet=format&n=0&encoding=json&key=" + api_key, | |
| "timeout": 20000, | |
| "success": function(results) { | |
| process_results(results); |
#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!
#Linked Open Data!
How many of you were at the VALA conference?
Lots and lots of discussion about LOD
#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.
Access to digital resources like Trove has changed the way we do history, but what about the way we communicate history? Sure, we now use blogs and social media to tell our stories, but there remains a divide between the data embedded within digital resources, and the narratives we construct on top of them. I want to explore ways in which we can maintain and enrich connections between data and narrative -- to tell stories that not only connect us to the past, but connect us to the wealth of historical material that exists within online collections.
See: Working History conference
In 1957 the Commonwealth Migration Officer sought ASIO's advice on an application from Leong Sam, a Chinese fruit dealer who had been living in Australia since 1901. Leong Sam had applied for a Certificate Exempting from the Dictation Test (CEDT) to allow him to travel to Hong Kong. ASIO noted that he had attended a Chinese film night organised by a member of the Communist Party of Australia, but raised no objection.
This brief bureaucratic exchange reminds us of three things. First the White Australia Policy was still in operation in the late 1950s, regulating the movements of non-white residents. Secondly, that long before the digital age and concerns of record linkage, the lives of Australians were monitored through multiple, intersecting systems of surveillance. And third, that recordkeeping is central to the practices of state surveillance.
Despite the secrecy surrounding our intelligence agencies I know about Leong Sam because someone asked if ASIO had a file on an associate,
| // ==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 |
You might have seen that the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet has opened discussion on an Open Government National Action Plan. Last week I was watching the Twitter stream from a briefing event in Melbourne, when I saw this tweet from Asher Wolf quoting the PM&C spokesperson:
. @pmc_gov_au: we don't want ppl to search for flaws or try to crack gvt datasets. #OGPAU
Now I'm not sure of the context of this statement, but it is a reminder that we can't take the meaning of words like 'open' or 'access' for granted.
They are what we make of them.