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The Future of the Past
GLAM innovation and the responsibilities of history
Tim Sherratt · @wragge@hcommons.social
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Prime Minister
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2008
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What advice would you give an organization wanting to use something similar?
Start experimenting. The technology is developing so rapidly that if you spend 12 months planning a project it’s likely to be out-of-date even before you start. New web services and data sources are becoming available every day. Perhaps you could use Open Calais to extract people’s names from a collection description, or MetaCarta to find the places. You might use the Google Books API to harvest the details of publications that cite your records. Even if you’re not a coder you can use tools like Yahoo Pipes to see what happens when you start to link data and services. Experimentation brings new ideas and possibilities. It’s all about making connections.
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a conscious experiment: an experiment in modeling effective relationships of research-and-development work by librarians & library IT both to the digital humanities as an exciting community of practice, & to our own future – the future of libraries within a scholarly communications ecosystem experiencing rapid reconfiguration.
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articles per year
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The Sun, 3 February 1948, page 5
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- 171 Jupyter notebooks
- 59 datasets
- 70 GitHub repositories
2017–2026
The GLAM Workbench is not my job, no-one pays me. I work on it because I think its useful and important, and because I enjoy the process of solving problems and helping researchers.
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Tim Sherratt
The Future of the past
By Tim Sherratt
