life of a fragment of history
Post on 14-Feb-2017
435 Views
Preview:
TRANSCRIPT
The Life of a Fragment of History
Working History: Professional Historians Association conference, 2016
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
Indexing on the fly – searching for the word ‘Arabic’
CSV file produced by program in Python written with the aid of http://programminghistorian.org/ 2
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
Stumbling Through the Future
3
www.stumblingfuture.wordpress.com
By JMortonPhoto.com & OtoGodfrey.com, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=44599375
4
Data Capture
Processing
FilingStorage
Retrieval
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
API
• Application Programming Interface• A really powerful and quick way of downloading lots of files• Learn how to use the Trove API the easier way – step by step
instructions at: https://stumblingfuture.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/an-introduction-to-the-trove-api/
5
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
DIY Digitisation Studio
6
My not cheap small camera
BORROWED tripod
FREE desk dumped in laneway
FREE cardboard box
$30 lamp
$7 glass cut to specs by glazier CHEAP cotton
gloves from supermarket
Instructions: http://www.instructables.com/id/Bargain-Price-Book-Scanner-From-A-Cardboard-Box/
7
Data Capture
Processing
FilingStorage
Retrieval
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
OCR
• Optical Character Recognition• Adobe Acrobat Pro• Omnipage by Nuance
OCR enables a CTL + F search on digitised documents
8
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
http://transcripts.sl.nsw.gov.au/page/295919/view#overlay-context= 9
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
<date when=“1918-09-10”>Tuesday</date>...Had MESS with a <hi rend=‘bold’>mixed</hi> INDIAN CAVALRY Camp – Representation from 10 Indian Cavalry Regts were there some very R<hi rend=‘bold’>ich</bold> education Rajah chaps – real silver on the Table etc :- Many courses <del rend="overstrike">not much grog</del> - Some castes are allowed to smok + <hi rend="underline">not</hi> drink, others drink …
TEI Transcription
Learn TEI yourself: http://teibyexample.org/
10
Data Capture
Processing
FilingStorage
Retrieval
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
Melodee Beals• ‘TEI for Close Reading: Can It Work for History?’:
http://mhbeals.com/researchblog/tei-for-close-reading-can-it-work-for-history/
• ‘XMLing My Way to Data Management; or, What should I do with my old notes’: http://mhbeals.com/xmling-my-way-to-data-management-or-what-should-i-do-with-all-my-old-notes/
11
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
Our Code of Ethics• 3.6 “Members should acknowledge help from informants.
They should respect an informant’s request for privacy, except where compulsion of law requires disclosure. “
• 4.10 “Members must not use confidential information to the advantage or disadvantage of the client, nor disclose such information except where required by law. “
12
13
Data Capture
Processing
FilingStorage
Retrieval
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
14
Data Capture
Processing
FilingStorage
Retrieval
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
Thank you Libraries & Archives!
In this presentation I used the digitised resources provided by the following institutions:• State Library of New South Wales @statelibrarynsw – WWI
diaries transcriptions• National Archives of Australia @naagovau – WWI service
records
15
Yvonne Perkins Twitter: @perkinsy Blog: www.stumblingpast.com
top related