If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
November 16, 2025 at 12:22 AM
If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #slvresidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
How to 'hack' a library website – a video tutorial by Tim Sherratt | SLV LAB
Learn how to hack a web browser to view and access online collections in different ways
lab.slv.vic.gov.au
November 25, 2025 at 3:14 AM
I recorded a video for my #slvresidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #glam websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-video-tim-sherratt #libraries #digitalhumanities
Catching up on some blogging for my #slvresidency ... Here's a post about some work I did a couple of weeks back creating bounding boxes for parish maps from the point, size, and scale metadata. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/10/06/creating-bounding-boxes-for-parish.html #maps #libraries […]
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October 6, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Catching up on some blogging for my #slvresidency ... Here's a post about some work I did a couple of weeks back creating bounding boxes for parish maps from the point, size, and scale metadata. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/10/06/creating-bounding-boxes-for-parish.html #maps #libraries […]
Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
Digital Humanities Now – Community-Curated Content from the Field
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October 2, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Hey! My post about my #slvresidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
Today in my #slvresidency, I'm going to have a look at the Sands & Macdougall directories: https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=61SLV_INST:SLV&collectionId=81213035910007636 I've previously converted NSW & TAS directories to full-text searchable databases, so I'm […]
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October 6, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Today in my #slvresidency, I'm going to have a look at the Sands & Macdougall directories: https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=61SLV_INST:SLV&collectionId=81213035910007636 I've previously converted NSW & TAS directories to full-text searchable databases, so I'm […]
Today in my #slvresidency I led a Code Club workshop where I encouraged SLV staff to hack their own website. We explored how bookmarklets and userscripts can be used to integrate new information, add new functions, and experiment with new possibilities. The slides are here […]
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October 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
Today in my #slvresidency I led a Code Club workshop where I encouraged SLV staff to hack their own website. We explored how bookmarklets and userscripts can be used to integrate new information, add new functions, and experiment with new possibilities. The slides are here […]
Still a work-in-progress, but if you want to try searching all of the Sands & MacDougall directories digitised by the State Library of Victoria, go here: https://glam-workbench.net/state-library-victoria/sands-macdougall-directories/ It's part of my #slvresidency... #histodons #familyhistory
Sands & McDougall's directories of Victoria - GLAM Workbench
A collection of tools and examples to help you work with data from galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
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October 18, 2025 at 1:53 AM
Still a work-in-progress, but if you want to try searching all of the Sands & MacDougall directories digitised by the State Library of Victoria, go here: https://glam-workbench.net/state-library-victoria/sands-macdougall-directories/ It's part of my #slvresidency... #histodons #familyhistory
Heading home after two weeks onsite for my #slvresidency. I've got a long list of things to work on for the next couple of months before I head back to Melbourne to wrap things up.
October 4, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Heading home after two weeks onsite for my #slvresidency. I've got a long list of things to work on for the next couple of months before I head back to Melbourne to wrap things up.
Been flat out this week trying to get the map georeferencing stuff done, but now I've hit a wall. Need to get myself going again next week because there's only a month left in my #slvresidency and so much that I still want to do...
October 31, 2025 at 5:44 AM
Been flat out this week trying to get the map georeferencing stuff done, but now I've hit a wall. Need to get myself going again next week because there's only a month left in my #slvresidency and so much that I still want to do...
Sneaking up on 500 maps from the SLV georeferenced – in just over 2 weeks. With another 2 weeks to go before my #slvresidency ends, we might actually make it to 1,000! That would be amazing. https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html
allmaps_dashboard
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November 16, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Sneaking up on 500 maps from the SLV georeferenced – in just over 2 weeks. With another 2 weeks to go before my #slvresidency ends, we might actually make it to 1,000! That would be amazing. https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html
What sorts of things do georeferenced maps make possible? This interface turns a street address into a point, finds georeferenced maps from the SLV that include that point, then displays the historic maps with a marker showing the location of the modern address. #slvresidency
November 23, 2025 at 3:50 AM
What sorts of things do georeferenced maps make possible? This interface turns a street address into a point, finds georeferenced maps from the SLV that include that point, then displays the historic maps with a marker showing the location of the modern address. #slvresidency
Today in my #slvresidency I created a userscript that adds links to Wikimedia Commons to the SLV image viewer if the image has been uploaded to the Commons (and the handle url is in the metadata). You can then see if the item has been used in other Wiki […]
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September 29, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Today in my #slvresidency I created a userscript that adds links to Wikimedia Commons to the SLV image viewer if the image has been uploaded to the Commons (and the handle url is in the metadata). You can then see if the item has been used in other Wiki […]
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A little bit terrified of all the things I want to get done before the end of my #slvresidency on 5 December...
November 13, 2025 at 11:36 PM
A little bit terrified of all the things I want to get done before the end of my #slvresidency on 5 December...
A few weeks back, as part of my #slvresidency, I created a big, fully-searchable database with all the content from the 24 volumes of Sands & MacDougall's directories digitised by the SLV. I've finally written up the details: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/11/12/a-new-way-of-searching.html […]
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November 12, 2025 at 11:38 AM
A few weeks back, as part of my #slvresidency, I created a big, fully-searchable database with all the content from the 24 volumes of Sands & MacDougall's directories digitised by the SLV. I've finally written up the details: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2025/11/12/a-new-way-of-searching.html […]
Feeling a bit pleased with this latest prototype for my #slvresidency – it's a userscript that adds links to georeference digitised maps in the SLV collection using AllMaps. If an item has already been georeferenced it embed the AllMaps viewer to show the […]
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October 28, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Feeling a bit pleased with this latest prototype for my #slvresidency – it's a userscript that adds links to georeference digitised maps in the SLV collection using AllMaps. If an item has already been georeferenced it embed the AllMaps viewer to show the […]
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Some more refinement of the road segment finder for my #slvresidency -- now getting a bbox for the suburb first, then querying within that for intersections. And finally worked out how to get nice smooth lines from the OSM way data!
September 26, 2025 at 6:47 AM
Some more refinement of the road segment finder for my #slvresidency -- now getting a bbox for the suburb first, then querying within that for intersections. And finally worked out how to get nice smooth lines from the OSM way data!
No blog post yet, but in my #slvresidency today I tried to figure out how to turn captions like 'Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, from Gertrude Street to Victoria Parade' into georeferenced street segments using the Open Street Map API. Still some things to connect […]
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September 24, 2025 at 7:23 AM
No blog post yet, but in my #slvresidency today I tried to figure out how to turn captions like 'Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, from Gertrude Street to Victoria Parade' into georeferenced street segments using the Open Street Map API. Still some things to connect […]
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Today in my #slvresidency I recorded a hybrid video/screencast that's really a cut down version of the 'hacking the library' workshop I gave yesterday. Coming soon to the SLV LAB's video feeds!
October 3, 2025 at 5:54 AM
Today in my #slvresidency I recorded a hybrid video/screencast that's really a cut down version of the 'hacking the library' workshop I gave yesterday. Coming soon to the SLV LAB's video feeds!
New prototype from my #slvresidency! This one lets you explore photos from the Committee for Urban Action collection by selecting one of the highlighted roads on a map of Victoria. It's very much work-in-progress and will probably change a lot, but you can […]
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October 20, 2025 at 6:57 AM
New prototype from my #slvresidency! This one lets you explore photos from the Committee for Urban Action collection by selecting one of the highlighted roads on a map of Victoria. It's very much work-in-progress and will probably change a lot, but you can […]
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Starting to bring various bits of my #slvresidency together in a new prototype...
November 15, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Starting to bring various bits of my #slvresidency together in a new prototype...
Today was a bit frustrating in #slvresidency work. But I've now got more collection items into Datasette/Spatialite so I can make spatial queries, including the Committee for Urban Action photos and the georeferenced maps. I'm adding a series of canned […]
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November 21, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Today was a bit frustrating in #slvresidency work. But I've now got more collection items into Datasette/Spatialite so I can make spatial queries, including the Committee for Urban Action photos and the georeferenced maps. I'm adding a series of canned […]
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Once the documentation is done I'm going to ask folks to help me georeference as many SLV maps as possible before the end of my #slvresidency in December. In particular I'd like to get some of the MMBW maps done and in a spatial index. More soon!
October 29, 2025 at 5:14 AM
Once the documentation is done I'm going to ask folks to help me georeference as many SLV maps as possible before the end of my #slvresidency in December. In particular I'd like to get some of the MMBW maps done and in a spatial index. More soon!
Today's achievements in my #slvresidency – got Vite going with UniversalViewer and Bulma; created a spatial database (Datasette with Spatialite) running in the cloud with a few canned queries that will let me find roads and photos from the Committee for Urban Action data within a specific […]
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October 27, 2025 at 5:36 AM
Today's achievements in my #slvresidency – got Vite going with UniversalViewer and Bulma; created a spatial database (Datasette with Spatialite) running in the cloud with a few canned queries that will let me find roads and photos from the Committee for Urban Action data within a specific […]
For my #slvresidency I've been working on a way to geolocate these road segments, so we can link the photos to their locations. I've now got a proof of concept working! I just downloaded the first 200 results from Fitzroy and ran them through. Here's the road segments linked to SLV records on a map.
September 27, 2025 at 7:52 AM
For my #slvresidency I've been working on a way to geolocate these road segments, so we can link the photos to their locations. I've now got a proof of concept working! I just downloaded the first 200 results from Fitzroy and ran them through. Here's the road segments linked to SLV records on a map.