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?
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.
Thanks 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 World and National Heritage Lists, it is also about the heritage of individual communities, be they in regional Australia or small towns or in dispersed multicultural communities. Your Community Heritage is about broadening our understanding and support of heritage and the organisations, individuals, volunteers and communities, who protect and manage so many of our unique heritage places and stories.
Your Community Heritage will promote the importance of heritage to the community and its role in bringing people together, creating community identity and a sense of pride.
Applications close 20 December 2011.
Details of the program are available through the Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities
After Fiona and I presented a brief talk at our Open Day 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 appear in the future as your tips keep coming in.
Happy dating!
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!
Can you be a gem and date this image of the Saphhire City…. Inverell?
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.
November 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 and say “Hi”.
We stumbled across another interesting SlideShare presentation about LODLAM 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
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.
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