Tim Sherratt PRO
Historian and hacker.
Hacking
cultural heritage collections
to understand the limits of access
Tim Sherratt ⚬ @wragge
play along
a hack can be elegant or kludgy, authored from scratch or patched together and remixed — the important thing is getting things done, pushing the boundaries of what the humanities can do, what effects it can have in the world, and where.
Mark J Olson, 'Hacking the humanities: Twenty-first-Century literacies and the ‘becoming other’ of the humanities'
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search engines lie
searching for 'white australia policy'
- Advanced search for series
- Exact phrase 'white australia policy'
- Include notes!
try it yourself
A classic hack
HANSARD BLACK HOLE
TBE
Try it yourself
- search for 'tbe'
- play with the facets
NOT everything is digitised
They're just different
ARTICLES PER YEAR
try it yourself
- Go to QueryPic
- Click on 'Create'
- Click on 'Query url'
- Copy & paste this url:
http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/result?q=+
functions by quantity
functions by items digitised
access is not always open
Try it yourself
- Advanced search for items
- Optionally enter a series ID
- Select 'Closed' from 'Access status'
comparing harvests
Hack or be hacked
bots for everyone
QueryPic deconstructed
Hacking cultural heritage collections to understand the limits of access
By Tim Sherratt
