Digital history: new tools & techniques

Tim Sherratt (@wragge)discontents.com.au

http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces

This is not as hard as you think it is...

Get interested. Get enthused. Experiment.

• 3 tools

• 3 resources

• 3 challenges

Making a start

3 tools

• Zotero

• Omeka

• Voyant Tools

zotero.org

zotero standalone

save your sources

organise using collections

take notes

just click...

share using groups

share using groups

3 tools

• Zotero

• Omeka

• Voyant Tools

omeka.org

omeka.net

extending Omeka

from Zotero to Omeka

theweatherprophets.org

See also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/weather-research-topics/some-exhibition-magic-with-zotero-and-omeka

geolocated

See also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/weather-research-topics/some-exhibition-magic-with-zotero-and-omeka

geolocated

See also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/weather-research-topics/some-exhibition-magic-with-zotero-and-omeka

occupyarchive.org (uses Omeka)

3 tools

• Zotero

• Omeka

• Voyant Tools

voyeurtools.org

word frequencies

keywords in context

3 resources

• Trove newspapers

• National Archives of Australia

• Chinese Heritage Australia

trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper

Zotero translator

wraggelabs.com/emporium/trove-tools/harvester/See also: http://discontents.com.au/shed/mining-the-treasures-of-trove-part-1

See also: http://discontents.com.au/shed/mining-the-treasures-of-trove-part-2

wraggelabs.com/shed/trove/graphs/chinese.html

wraggelabs.com/shed/time/the_great_war-2011-08-16.html

See also: http://discontents.com.au/shed/experiments/when-did-the-great-war-become-the-first-world-war

3 resources

• Trove newspapers

• National Archives of Australia

• Chinese Heritage of Australia

Zotero translator

numbers of pages!See also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/archives-shoebox/doing-it-yourself

before

after See also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/archives-shoebox/archives-in-3d

3d wallSee also: http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/archives-shoebox/archives-in-3d

wraggelabs.com/emporium/recordsearch-tools/

invisibleaustralians.org

3 resources

• Trove newspapers

• National Archives of Australia

• Chinese Heritage of Australia

coming soon...

coming soon...

3 challenges

• Play

• Share

• Connect

wordle.com

voyeurtools.org

books.google.com/ngrams

bookworm.culturomics.org

wraggelabs.com/newsroulette/

historywall.nma.gov.au/irish

3 challenges

• Play

• Share

• Connect

Share

• Get yourself a blog

• Show your working out

• Think about reuse

3 challenges

• Play

• Share

• Connect

digitalhumanitiesnow.org

digitalhumanities.org/answers

thatcamp.org

aa-dh.org

Connect

• http://groups.google.com/group/2cultures

• Twitter: @wragge & @baibi

Thanks!

• http://discontents.com.au

• tim@discontents.com.au

• @wragge