Life on the Outside Collections, contexts, and the wild, wild web

Tim Sherratt (@wragge)

Tatsuzo Nakata

Tatsuzo Nakataage

scars

journey

National Archives of Australia: J2483, 131/20, page 1

‘depicting in musical form the

patriotic spirit of the race’

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/19860103

Series J2482

14,436 files

http://jadh-demo.herokuapp.com/

Shark Attack!http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/182145421

‘The presence of sharks should not alarm

people.’

http://www.theleader.com.au/story/2019891/shark-cover-up-in-port-hacking/

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…’

No sharks!

No sharks!

Trove

TROVE

http:/

/trov

e.nla.

gov.au

Trove is…

http://troveis.dhistory.org/

Tsukuba ballBall Aboard the Corvette Tsukuba

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63186147

138,000 users 3,000,000 tags

80,000 comments 139,000,000 corrections

58,000 lists

http://voyant-tools.org/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=1394850561439.7343&query=&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt

http://voyant-tools.org/tool/Cirrus/?corpus=1394850561439.7343&query=&stopList=stop.en.taporware.txt

mowers

Old Speak

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/182151743

‘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

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

http://www.inmycommunity.com.au/news-and-views/local-news/Shark-barrier-to-go-up-at-Coogee/7647609/

https://www.facebook.com/perthnow/posts/262401313869547

‘Did they have live sheep export in 1950?’

Between Past and PresentTraces

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/208814121CSIRO ScienceImage

just a samplehttp://trovespace.webfactional.com/traces/

Of Spikes & Scale

Latin?https://plot.ly/~wragge/9

Scale

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/176923376

WTF

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article102017012

‘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

Sharing

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article52913302

‘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/

‘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/

Busy Bots

Grrr! Arrgh!

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/186071643

http://mechanicalcurator.tumblr.com/

1,000,000 images!https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/

http://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/2014/08/the-british-library-meets-burning-man.html

Images on the loose!

https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot

‘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

https://twitter.com/TroveNewsBot/status/512843618193637376

Broken & Repaired

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/167471293Photo by Brian Yap

‘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/

https://twitter.com/PicPedant

Be warned!

https://twitter.com/AhistoricalPics

Generous Signposts

http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/181960873

‘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/

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’

‘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

Responsibilities

http://invisibleaustralians.org/faces/

http://invisibleaustralians.org/

Tatsuzo Nakata

Title image: ‘Life behind bars’, by Len Matthews, http://trove.nla.gov.au/version/184871936

Tim Sherratt @wragge

http://discontents.com.au