Visualisation is a great way to find problems in your data. I was processing records from the Tasmanian Post Office Directories the other day when I realised that 1920 was missing from my online, searchable database. Eeek!
This image is featured in the current spotlight exhibition from the Brass Band Archive. Follow the link in our bio to find out more about the exhibition and the unique collections that the Brass Band Archive hosts!
The #REWIND project is holding another #DigitalHumanities workshop: tomorrow, 5 September, we're welcoming Gustavo Candela for an online workshop on the reuse of digital collections provided by galleries, libraries, archives and museums (#GLAM).
We're delighted to announce our themes for Focus Week in November! Share with us your archive stories related to the theme each day in November.
We are an Archives and Records Association platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives. To find out more about our work, head here: https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/
(@ucdarchives we loved seeing your participation on mastodon last year!)
Comme beaucoup d'autres services, les #ArchivesDeLyon profitent de la tenue des #JO à Paris pour mettre en avant des ressources sur l'histoire du #sport et des pratiques sportives à #Lyon.
Voici près de 500 images classées par discipline et concoctées avec amour par une de nos stagiaires pendant 2 mois : les images sont téléchargeables et, sauf exceptions, réutilisables.
Et il y a pas mal de pépites 🤩
If you happen to be connected in some way shape or form to British Columbia and the preservation of historical memory, you may be interested in the BC History Digitization Program. The initiative that offers "matching funds to undertake digitization projects that will result in free online access to unique historical material from around the province." @histodons
I've written a little post about the National Library of Australia's collection of archived websites in Pandora and the new #GLAMWorkbench section that helps you to work with the data.
Want to find websites from Australian elections back to 1996? Just go to Pandora. Want all the urls in a spreadsheet? Just run my new notebook.
Required reading for historians, archivists, and librarians in and of Canada on the cuts suffered by Library and Archives Canada over the past 15-20 years. @histodons
Danielle Robichaud, "Contextualizing a Scandal: A Brief History of Library and Archives Canada"
About five years ago I created a collection of full-page editorial cartoons from The Bulletin, harvested from #Trove. Through a process that might be politely described as ‘iterative’, I fiddled with an assortment of queries and methods until I had at least one cartoon from every issue published between 4 September 1886 and 17 September 1952 – 3,471 cartoons in total.
John La Rose was born in Trinidad and was a poet, essayist, publisher, filmmaker, trade unionist, and cultural and political activist. In 1966, with his partner, Sarah White, he set up one of the first Black British bookshops in the UK, New Beacon Books. His wide-ranging contribution to the struggle for racial equality and social justice, as well as cultural change, is unparalleled in the history of the black experience in Britain.