DIgital history Workshop
Tim Sherratt ⌘ @wragge
things you need
Test your historical knowledge
Make your own!
Save Your Sources!
The wayback machine
Save with one click
PERMA.CC (some limits apply)
Zotero
Record the Web
Resurrecting the dead
Annotation magic
HYPOTHES.IS
Get annotating
- Use 'Paste a link' from Hypothesis site
- Install a bookmarklet or Chrome extension
- Drop a file onto DropDoc
- Open a web page or PDF
- Look for the side bar
- Select some text
- Add comments, tags & more
The Magicks Part 1
- Open ANU 2020 in your browser
- Also download a copy & open the copy in your browser
- Activate Hypothes.is in both
- Add annotations and marvel at the magical transference!
The Magicks Part 2
A Trove-ing we will go
WHAT IS TROVE?
- Newspapers & Government Gazettes
- Digitised books and journals
- A collection of collections
- A platform for development
NEWSPAPERS Everywhere (almost)
a variety of languages
| Query | Results | Explanation |
|---|---|---|
| white OR australia | 40,855,944 | |
| white australia | 4,971,530 | Same as white AND australia |
| "white australia" | 136,327 | Search for phrase (with stemming) |
| text:"white australia" | 132,470 | Search for phrase (no stemming) |
| "white australia"~0 | 130,164 | Search for phrase (no extra words) |
| text:"white australia"~0 | 126,982 | Search for phrase (no extra words and no stemming) |
DE-fuzzifying your search
Other NLA digitised resources
- Books and journals – try searching for nuc:"ANL:DL"
- Try searching for "nla.obj" in Maps or Pictures
- Oral histories!
Simplifying search
COLLECTION of collections
Saving and sharing your research
- Tags and lists (see the help)
- Zotero
- DIY Exhibition!
Big pictures
It's making time!
Your challenge
SEARCH INTERFACES LIE
Beware!
HANSARD BLACK HOLE
Collections as data
radio national data
- Repository on GitHub
- In a word...
Historic hansard
More politicians talking...
Election speeches in voyant
Getting data out of RecordSearch
TAMING RECORDSEARCH TIPS
- Use Zotero (persistent links!)
- Use SODA for viewing digitised files
- Install my Show Pages userscript
The (experimental) OzGLAM Workbench
Includes:
- An introduction to the Trove API
- Harvest thousands of newspaper articles with the TroveHarvester
- A hackable version of QueryPic
- Harvest complete series from RecordSearch
- More to come!
More things to try!
Doing & making
- Make your own Trove Twitter bot
- Help transcribe at The Real Face of White Australia
- Help out at Zooniverse or make your own project
- Explore Glitch
Some tools & resources
- The Programming Historian
- Tropy – manage your research photos
- Omeka – share your research collections
- Databasic – fun intro to data
- Voyant Tools – explore texts
- RAWGraphs – easy charts
- Palladio – explore historical data