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HACKING THE PAST 
Opening analogue government data sets
The State Records Office of WA 
is responsible for ensuring good 
recordkeeping across 
government, and for preserving, 
maintaining and making 
accessible State archives 
(records of continuing value)
Hacking the past: opening analogue government data sets
The GovHack experience
First Lesson  our data is not easy to find or use, even when it is on a platter.
Second lesson  some platters are better than others
GovHack 2014
GovHack 2015?
Hacking the past: opening analogue government data sets
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Hacking the past: opening analogue government data sets

Editor's Notes

  • #4: We hold a range of information types and formats, from files and Executive Council minutes, to maps and plans, photographs, and local government ratebooks.
  • #5: We went to GovHack 2013, the first in Perth, simply because we thought that making our data available would be a useful thing for us to do, and to find out what the issues might be. We went armed with a 1TB hard drive on which we had added a range of digitised resources, and some excel spreadsheets
  • #6: We ran into format problems immediately pdfs of spreadsheets, spreadsheets that had been converted from Mac to word and then to excel, even the jpgs of plans werent that easy to import in bulk.
  • #7: In GovHack 2013, at least three teams used the TROVE api to find their datasets, including the team from Pixtory, who went to TROVE to find WA photos from the SLWA collections.
  • #8: This year, the information was sorted into folders, and where indexes existed, they were hyperlinked. Files were available in .csv format or .excel, and images were identified by information content in way that linked back to our main catalogue. The result? Some of our images were used for an app for school history, which was encouraging.
  • #9: What did we expect from GovHack not sure. However, something like geolocation of our maps or files would have been fantastic, or an app or game that used them more interactively. Some modelling or data visualisation, not just of the information on the website, but drawn from our catalogue? Or even a transcription of our fieldbooks. We also need to look at the datasets we manage, and are aware of government organisations are required to tell us what major data sets they hold.
  • #11: What did we expect from GovHack not sure. However, something like geolocation of our maps or files would have been fantastic, or an app or game that used them more interactively. Some modelling or data visualisation, not just of the information on the website, but drawn from our catalogue? Or even a transcription of our fieldbooks. We also need to look at the datasets we manage, and are aware of government organisations are required to tell us what major data sets they hold. Clearly, the projects shown here are much bigger than a single weekend, but they demonstrate the sort of work into which government data sets can be integrated. We hope that our new catalogue will also make it easier to extract and use data.