hacking heritage
exploring the limits of access
Tim Sherratt・@wragge ・timsherratt.org
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.
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Mark J Olson, 'Hacking the humanities: Twenty-first-Century literacies and the ‘becoming other’ of the humanities'
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access is constructed
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what's available?
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is it in the form I need?
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do I have the technical skills?
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what does it really mean?
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what's available?
I don't know where to start...
an alternative interface
some random hacks
@TroveNewsBot
lists can be useful too!
but what's inside?
is it in the form I need?
downloads are cool but...
spoken in Parliament
download XML in bulk
one page per day
3,471 Bulletin editorial cartoons
Previously this kind of research would have taken months but now thanks to Tim’s shortcut can be done in a matter of days.
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— Guy Hansen, National Library of Australia
scraping data from the NAA
do I have the technical skills?
APIs are cool, but...
with the Trove API you can...
visualise newspaper searches
get your newspaper articles in bulk
collected tools, examples & hacks
what does it really mean?
seeing differently....
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the WWI effect
the Hansard black hole
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number of items described in NAA by top-level function
number of items digitised in NAA by top-level function
access is constructed
- how does access change?
- what can I see differently?
- what is possible that wasn't before?
- where can I go next?
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