Calling all people with ideas and enthusiasm – we want you to do your bit!To commemorate the centenary of World War One, Mosman Library is creating an innovative online resource to collect and display information about the wartime experiences of local service people.But we don’t want to do it alone.Come along and join the team at a ‘Build-a-thon’ on 11 August.The Build-a-thon will bring programmers, local historians and willing volunteers together to design and build the site, gather data, and…See More
"The EventBrite page for the London event is now live! http://lodlamlon11.eventbrite.com/
If you know anyone who'd make a great speaker for this, drop me a line - the more success stories the better."
"In case you're able to be in London - there's a LODLAM-London meetup with the Open Knowledge Foundation on October 6th, and another meetup on November 24 - both will probably focus on barriers and success stories in open data, but the…"
THATCamp Canberra is a user-generated unconference in the digital humanities. It's one of a growing number of THATCamps springing up around the world, led by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. THATCamps are not traditional conferences -- there are no formal presentations or Powerpoint slides. Instead the emphasis is on participation and collaboration. THATCamps are collegial, non-hierarchical, exciting, exhausting and fun.From complete newbies to hardened coders,…See More
I've been doing a bit of work recently on People Australia -- the National Library of Australia's name authority database. People Australia has an SRU interface that you can use to create complex queries, but to make things a bit easier, I've written a Python client library to easily extract identity data. Using it you could, for example, build name authority lookups into your collection database to uniquely… Continue