life on the outside: collections, contexts, and the wild, wild web
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Keynote presented at the Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for the Digital Humanities, University of Tsukuba, 20 September 2014.TRANSCRIPT
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Life on the Outside Collections, contexts, and the wild, wild web
Tim Sherratt (@wragge)
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Tatsuzo Nakata
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Tatsuzo Nakataage
scars
journey
National Archives of Australia: J2483, 131/20, page 1
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‘depicting in musical form the
patriotic spirit of the race’
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19860103
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Series J2482
14,436 files
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‘The presence of sharks should not alarm
people.’
http://www.theleader.com.au/story/2019891/shark-cover-up-in-port-hacking/
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http://www.theleader.com.au/story/2039768/horror-day-when-shark-killed-boy-off-grays-point/
‘Sutherland Shire councillor Phil
Blight unearthed the article on
Trove…’
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No sharks!
No sharks!
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Trove is…
http://troveis.dhistory.org/
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Tsukuba ballBall Aboard the Corvette Tsukuba
http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63186147
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138,000 users 3,000,000 tags
80,000 comments 139,000,000 corrections
58,000 lists
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http://voyant-tools.org/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=1394850561439.7343&query=&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
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http://voyant-tools.org/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=1394850561439.7343&query=&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt
mowers
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‘I found a great website to view really old newspapers in perth. Just found a few swan river shark stories…’
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/swan-river-bull-shark-attacks
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Redfin 4 Life: ‘Haha you would never know there had been that many incidents in the swan without seeing these…’ !
Goodz: ‘Oh how newspapers have changed the way they write... love the old speak!’ !
Alan James: ‘That's right Goodz, and more often than not I'm sure they actually reported the truth.’
http://fishwrecked.com/forum/swan-river-bull-shark-attacks
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http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Shark-barrier-to-go-up-at-Coogee/7647609/
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https://www.facebook.com/perthnow/posts/262401313869547
‘Did they have live sheep export in 1950?’
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Between Past and PresentTraces
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/208814121CSIRO ScienceImage
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just a samplehttp://trovespace.webfactional.com/traces/
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Of Spikes & Scale
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WTF
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‘There’s just an enormous, humongous, gigantic audience out there connected to the Internet that is starving for authenticity, ideas, and meaning. We’re so accustomed to the scale of attention that we get from visitation to bricks-and-mortar buildings that it’s difficult to understand how big the Internet is—and how much attention, curiosity, and creativity a couple of billion people can have.’
— Michael Peter Edson
https://medium.com/@mpedson/dark-matter-a6c7430d84d1
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‘When cultural heritage is digital, open and shareable, it becomes common property, something that is right at hand every day. It becomes a part of us.’
— Merete Sanderhoff
http://www.sharingiscaring.smk.dk/en/explore-the-art/free-download-of-artworks/sharing-is-caring/foreword/
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‘We believe culture is a catalyst for social and economic change. But that’s only possible if it’s readily usable and easily accessible for people to build with, build on and share.’
— Europeana 2020
http://strategy2020.europeana.eu/
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Busy Bots
Grrr! Arrgh!
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/186071643
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1,000,000 images!https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
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http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/08/the-british-library-meets-burning-man.html
Images on the loose!
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https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot
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‘And so as what at first seemed simple descends into complexity the Mechanical Curator achieves her peculiar aim: giving knowledge with one hand, carpet bombing the foundations of that knowledge with the other.’
— James Baker
http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2013/09/the-mechanical-curator.html
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https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot/status/512843618193637376
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Broken & Repaired
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/167471293Photo by Brian Yap
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‘These accounts capitalize on a notion that history is nothing more than superficial glimpses of some vaguely defined time before ours, one that exists for us to look at and exclaim over and move on from without worrying about what it means and whether it happened.’
— Sarah Werner
http://sarahwerner.net/blog/index.php/2014/01/its-history-not-a-viral-feed/
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Generous Signposts
http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/181960873
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‘The cynics, of course, will say that bad actors will do bad things with all that open data. But here’s the thing about the open web: bad actors will do bad things, regardless... The flip side of worries about bad actors is that we underestimate the number of good actors doing the right thing..’
— Dan Cohen
http://www.dancohen.org/2013/11/26/cc0-by/
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http://www.localcontexts.org/
‘an educative and informational strategy to
help non-community users of traditional knowledge
understand the importance and significance of this
material’
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‘To whom are we responsible – to the people in our stories, to our sources, to our informants, to our readers and audiences, to the integrity of the past itself? How do we pay our respects, allow for dissent, accommodate complexity, distinguish between our voice and those of our characters?’
— Tom Griffiths
HISTORY AUSTRALIA, VOLUME 6, NUMBER 3, 2009
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Responsibilities
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Tatsuzo Nakata
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Title image: ‘Life behind bars’, by Len Matthews, http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/184871936
Tim Sherratt @wragge
http://discontents.com.au