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Tim Sherratt
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I’m a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. My main project at the moment is the #GLAMWorkbench […] 🌉 bridged from https://hcommons.social/@wragge on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2h
Cool to see how standards like @IIIF encourage the development of new tools.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
Here's the catalogue entry: https://find.slv.vic.gov.au/permalink/61SLV_INST/1sev8ar/alma9920645823607636
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 3h
I've been playing with AllMaps to georeference SLV maps that are available via @IIIF. Here's a set of maps of the Melbourne CBD created for fire insurance in the 1920s. https://viewer.allmaps.org/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fannotations.allmaps.org%2Fmanifests%2F628c216109f482f1 Hold down 'b' to remove […]
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h
Currently wondering how I can get to Edinburgh next June...
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
Sample of text extracted from PDF using PyMuPDF, using default settings. The text includes a lot of white space and it's difficult to make out the rows.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
So yeah, I'm re-OCRing the Sands and Macdougall images. It wasn't so much a problem with the quality of the OCR as the difficulties of getting text from PDFs in columns. Tesseract does a pretty good job with the columns, so it's easier just to do it all again. It'll take a while, but I don't mind.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
I think it's useful, but it still seems very much focused on images. Personally I'd to see it broadened out to explicitly include access to the full range of heritage data types in machine-readable forms. And at a range of scales.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The TAROCH Coalition (convened by Creative Commons) have issued an Open Heritage Statement to "to affirm shared values, identify barriers to access, and champion the power of open heritage to spark creativity, strengthen cultural rights, and support sustainable futures" […]
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
@oz-penguin.bsky.social The images in the PDFs have already been converted to bi-tonal.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
The first question is whether the text in the PDFs is worth saving, or whether I should re-OCR. The PDFs contain good bitonal images, so OCRing them should be pretty easy. That's what I did for the Tas directories: https://glam-workbench.net/libraries-tasmania/
Libraries Tasmania - GLAM Workbench
This repository provides a collection of tools and examples for working with data from Libraries Tasmania.
glam-workbench.net
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d
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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
New #openaccess journal launching: Humanities Methods in Librarianship. https://www.humanitiesmethods.org #libraries #glam #digitalhumanities
Humanities Methods in Librarianship
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 2d
Vote turbo chook! https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2025/oct/06/australian-bird-of-the-year-2025-vote-now
Australian bird of the year 2025: vote for your favourite #birdoftheyear in the Guardian / BirdLife Australia poll
From little penguins to (very big) cassowaries, every bird has its fans. Vote for your favourite in the 2025 Guardian/BirdLife Australia poll
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 4d
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.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d
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!
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
Spotlight sure has changed...
Screen shot of a sponsored ad for Spotlight which features nunchucks, handcuffs, and a sword for sale.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d
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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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
Tomorrow it's Code Club, then on Friday I'm recording a video/screencast. Must admit I'm starting to feel a bit worn out. Being at the SLV is great fun, but I'm looking forward to heading home on Saturday...
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d
Another fun userscript to play around with in the Code Club workshop tomorrow -- this one lets you create an easter egg hunt amongst the SLV digitised collections. It's just a template really to suggest some possibilities... https://gist.github.com/wragge/ebc00790f87e83128f68d992be878dc1
SLV Easter Egg Hunt
SLV Easter Egg Hunt. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 8d
@Airminded Hi Brett, how about 3.30 at Mr Tulk? I just got a pass so I can finally move around the building!
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
A search for SLV handle urls in WImedia Commons currently returns 492 results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?fulltext=1&search=handle.slv.vic.gov.au&ns0=1&ns6=1&ns12=1&ns14=1&ns100=1&ns106=1
Search results for "handle.slv.vic.gov.au" - Wikimedia Commons
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d
It's primarily a demo for the 'hacking the library' Code Club workshop I'll be running for SLV staff later this week, but it could be a useful pattern to include elsewhere.
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