Digital history: new tools and techniques

Digital history: new tools & techniques Tim Sherratt (@wragge) discontents.com.au

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

Get interested. Get enthused. Experiment.

Making a start• 3 tools• 3 resources• 3 challenges

3 tools• Zotero• Omeka• Voyant Tools

zotero.org

zotero standalone

save your sources

organise using collections

take notes

just click...

share using groups

omeka.org

omeka.net

extending Omeka

from Zotero to Omeka

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

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

occupyarchive.org (uses Omeka)

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 wall See 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...

3 challenges• Play• Share• Connect

wordle.com

voyeurtools.org

books.google.com/ngrams

bookworm.culturomics.org

wraggelabs.com/newsroulette/

historywall.nma.gov.au/irish

Share• Get yourself a blog• Show your working out• Think about reuse

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

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