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Have you visited our reading rooms to view original NSW State archives? Did you take photos of the records? Add your photos of documents from the official NSW State archives collection to our new Flickr Group called Archives2Share NSW. We’re trying a crowdsourcing experiment, tell your friends! The idea of this new Flickr group is to [...]
Continue ReadingIt’s hard to believe it’s that time of year already! Here at Archives Outside we would like to say thanks to everyone who has contributed, commented and read the blog over the past year and wish you all the best for 2012. The blog will be going on a summer hiatus until Monday 30th of January when we [...]
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I was looking through some of our blog stats the other week and thought I’d share some of them; a Top 10 of Archives Outside, if you like. These stats show what has been the most viewed, the most searched for items and a little bit about you. Not surprisingly posts/pages/searches relating to Underbelly: Razor [...]
Continue ReadingA thought provoking presentation about interfaces for digital collections made by Associate Professor Mitchell Whitelaw from the University of Canberra at the recent National Digital Forum in New Zealand.
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On this day in 1941 Prime Minister John Curtain announced via Radio Broadcast that Australia was at war with Japan.
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Summer holidays are just around the corner… Here’s a summery scene of swimmers at Clovelly Beach in Sydney to get us in a holiday mood. Can you date this picture? Larger version on Flickr We have many other undated photographs in Photo Investigator and on our Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these [...]
Continue ReadingThanks to our Senior Conservator, Elizabeth Hadlow, for bringing this to our attention. Your Community Heritage is a new approach to supporting and protecting Australia’s heritage that will enable local communities around Australia to celebrate their local heritage. The program recognises that our heritage is not just about ‘big’ heritage such as places on the [...]
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After Fiona and I presented a brief talk at our using your tips for dating photos, we promised to put the new list of tips up on the blog. And here ’tis! This is the handout that accompanied our talk (updated from the original version back in June 2010). I’m sure a version three will [...]
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The problem for anyone who wanted to read the document was that in order to open up the petition, the entire length needed to be unrolled first. Once unrolled, there was the issue of trying to safely open a 13 metre fold!
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A Moment in Time…… Can you be a gem and date this image of the Saphhire City…. Inverell? Larger version on Flickr We have many other undated photographs in Photo Investigator and on our Flickr account. If you know the dates or any other interesting facts about these images please let us know.
Continue ReadingNovember 21, 2011 is the 39th annual World Hello Day. Anyone can participate in World Hello Day simply by greeting ten people. This demonstrates the importance of personal communication for preserving peace. worldhelloday.org So…Bonjour! Ciao! Guten Tag! Hola! Running out of languages here, what can you add? And to all you lurkers out there, come [...]
Continue ReadingWe stumbled across another interesting SlideShare presentation about called “Bringing History Alive: Telling stories with Linked Data and open source tools”. It’s by David Peterson – Semantic Web Story Teller, on Twitter @davidseth LODLAM = Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives, and Museums Bringing History Alive: Telling stories with Linked Data and open source tools [...]
Continue ReadingDigiman is baby sitting his niece and nephew for the weekend, but things go horribly wrong when he sends them out on an arctic mountain adventure. Never fear trusty viewers PLATO, the Planets Preservation Planning tool, comes to the rescue showing Digiman the error of his ways. From Digital Preservation Europe
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In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
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