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Posted on May 2, 2012 by Anthea Brown
…and having fun! You might remember last year we had a who wrote about this exciting new way of viewing and sharing history. From the post: Historypin is a public history collaboration working with individuals and communities, in partnership with Google and over 100 institutions around the world, to share their collections and build community [...]
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Posted on April 10, 2012 by Fiona Sullivan
Via @José Francisco Simó on Pinterest. When you’re using social media every day it’s easy to become blasé about the risks posed by interacting online. This includes both personal risk and the risk to your brand or organisation. This graphic takes you through the types of social media attacks that have occurred over the last [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on February 6, 2012 by Anthea Brown
Thanks to Cassie Findlay for sending this interesting presentation our way. It talks about the benefits of generous search screens/interfaces for (digital) collections. Generous Interfaces – rich websites for digital collections View more presentations from Mitchell Whitelaw
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Posted on December 19, 2011 by Anthea Brown
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 ReadingPosted on November 14, 2011 by Anthea Brown
We 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 ReadingPosted on November 14, 2011 by Anthea Brown
Digiman 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
Continue ReadingPosted on October 17, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
Over at our brother blog Opening the Catalogue: State Records NSW’s Open Data Project our colleague Richard Lehane is asking for your help. State Records NSW is now inviting our regular users to trial http://api.records.nsw.gov.au as a new search tool for accessing the State Archives collection. If you have tried this new search tool, and [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on October 17, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
LODLAM stands for Linked Open Data in Libraries, Archives and Museums. This is a very exciting, innovative area. If you do a Google search on “LODLAM” you bring up a lot of hits, however, sitting right at the top of the list is lod-lam.net. I’ve embedded an Introductory talk on LODLAM by Jon Voss from [...]
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Posted on October 10, 2011 by Archives Outside
A guest post from the friendly folks at Historypin! Blue metal tram at Post Office Corner, pinned by Kiama Library, NSW Historypin is a public history collaboration working with individuals and communities, in partnership with Google and over 100 institutions around the world, to share their collections and build community around local history. A user-generated [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on September 19, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
Last week Archives Outside passed the thousand comment mark!! A big thank you to all our blogging friends who have jumped in and joined the conversation over the last two years :-)
Continue ReadingPosted on September 5, 2011 by Anthea Brown
Last week we mentioned that State Records is having an Open day on Friday 28th October. There’s been a lot of buzz and excitement around here, loads of coffee and brainstorming.
Continue ReadingPosted on August 31, 2011 by Fiona Sullivan
A few links we have found online… From the Metroon to Wikileaks: People, power and the archive What is an archive? What is its purpose? Has the kind of archive that has evolved in 20th and early 21st century Western civilisation remained consistent with the underlying principles of the contract struck between the people and the [...]
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Posted on August 17, 2011 by Anthea Brown
It was some time ago now but you might remember the asking your opinion on providing a digital camera in the reading rooms for researchers to use. We received some great advice and suggestions in that post on the possible pros and cons and we are happy to announce there is now a digital camera [...]
Continue ReadingPosted on August 10, 2011 by Anthea Brown
Our sister blog, Future Proof, recently wrote a piece that we thought would be of interest to you. Called Digitisation Dilemmas the post highlights nine risk factors to be aware of when undertaking digitisation projects.
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