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Comment on Making mind-meet magic by Takeaways from THATCamp Canberra, 2011 « museum geek

Takeaways from THATCamp Canberra, 2011 « museum geek — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:11:04 +0000

[...] Thus it was that I was in two minds about attending THATCamp Canberra. I had been looking forward to going to THATCamp for ages, ever since I first heard about the concept in relation to THATCampMCN. But by the time the event actually rolled around, I was so brain-sore that I didn’t think I would have anything left in me to contribute (and that is, after all, the point of an unconference). [...]

Comment on The tyranny of citation formats by gaylourdes

gaylourdes — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:00:04 +0000

Looks like interesting reading Ian!

Notes from the discussion from Liz and Cath in this googledoc: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1znGnr0SCGZLCQiSVnKimsW45SnzloeGdKlGslDxA6rI/edit?hl=en_GB – these will be massaged into coherency over the next few days.

Comment on On the Digital Culture Public Sphere by perkinsy1

perkinsy1 — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 11:19:48 +0000

Notes taken from this session are up on Google Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_uaTTTkhxkdFaIuMaHr8cZEmHnyMc0z1475y6qRUeoU/edit?hl=en_GB

Comment on Electronic Editions on a Shoestring by thien

thien — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 23:25:05 +0000

Here’s a summary of the session and the tools mentioned:

Text Encoding (Roger Osborne)

Scholarly editions
Open Annotation Collaboration openannotation.org (Mellon funded – UQ)
Examples:
Samuel Beckett digital archive – 30 year plan to digitise all of his work.
Walt Whitman Archive

TokenX – text visualisation tool. – (Willa Cather Archive)
MVD (multiversiondocs.blogspot.com/) online tool being developed by Desmond Schmidt – online production of comparisons of multiple versions of texts. Built on Joomla.
Problem of how to render text from images of typescripts or handwritten manuscripts.
Finereader express – OCR
Juxta – desktop software for comparing two versions of files
CollateX – new version of Collate and Anastasia for document
The Virtual Manuscript Room – Vmr.bham.ac.uk –
Tesseract – free OCR software – requires bw images aligned properly
Remote Writer – tool for writing encoded text

Comment on Building a bootcamp sampler by agerber

agerber — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:32:33 +0000

I’ve put the slides about Using Yahoo Pipes to get data from Trove People results and Google Fusion table query results online here: http://www.slideshare.net/annagerber/using-yahoo-pipes

Comment on Sharing the shoeboxes under the bed by perkinsy1

perkinsy1 — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 02:08:39 +0000

I’ve posted the session notes on Google docs. Feel free to comment and amend!

Comment on Building a bootcamp sampler by k.greenhill

k.greenhill — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 04:45:13 +0000

So maybe we can we pretend to be a slightly Henry Lawson obsessed researcher who wants to create a very simple auto-populated info page about Henry Lawson. Maybe pulling in data from Trove People/Orgs with some similar info via DBPedia, doing something interesting with newspaper data about Henry Lawson and then use LORE to make some annotations/connections between his work?

(Someone who wrote pre-1954 is important)

…and anything else that takes peoples’ fancy? …

Comment on Building a bootcamp sampler by agerber

agerber — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:19:19 +0000

Sounds like a great idea. I’d be happy to step people through how to mash up data into a webpage from Trove SRU, Google Fusion tables etc using Yahoo Pipes

Comment on Sharing the shoeboxes under the bed by k.greenhill

k.greenhill — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:31:25 +0000

Another issue arising out of yesterday’s Digital Public Sphere is whether there is merit in replicating / continuing something like CAN, that tried to provide an aggregated search across disparate collections of shoeboxes… Like the way that New Zealand has 34 Kete regionally that feed data up to DNZ…

Comment on Sharing the shoeboxes under the bed by Basil Dewhurst

Basil Dewhurst — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 19:05:41 +0000

An interesting example I was part of developing back in 2001-2002: The National Quilt Register (http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/nqr/).

“Old quilts of all types have always been about memories and women’s hidden, often unspoken, language. They carry stories about our history and about needlework and provide a rich insight into women’s lives. In the National Quilt Register women tell their own stories, some for the first time, about love, despair, managing, surviving, adversity, friendship, endurance. The quilts stay where they are and the stories are shared.” (http://www.collectionsaustralia.net/nqr/about.php)