Liberating lives: Invisible Australians and biographical networks
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This document discusses the website www.invisibleaustralians.org and its efforts to aggregate and link records from the National Archives of Australia to reconstruct biographical narratives of individuals. It notes there are over 50,000 Certificate of Exemption from the Dictation Test records, 90 shelves of other records, and 15,000 case files that have been digitized. The site aims to crowdsource the extraction of data from these records and link identities across different records in order to tell the stories of individuals who might otherwise remain invisible in the archival records.
Liberating lives: Invisible Australians and biographical networks
- 1. Liberating lives Invisible Australians and biographical networks www.invisibleaustralians.org Tim Sherratt @wragge
- 10. www.invisibleaustralians.org For the years between 1902 and 1948 there remain: More than 50,000 CEDTs 90 shelf metres of records 15,000 case files
- 11. www.invisibleaustralians.org What changes when we examine the world through the collected fragments of knowledge that we can recover about a single person, reorganised as a biographical narrative, rather than as part of an archival system? Tim Hitchcock
- 14. www.invisibleaustralians.org Bright Sparcs will continue to grow. We will keep adding and linking, building layer upon layer of this information environment. New resources will be interwoven. New gateways will be constructed thematic exhibitions tailored to particular audiences. We will encourage contributions to Bright Sparcs, and assist individuals and organisations to make their material available over the WWW. Each addition will enrich this environment, adding flesh to the original database, until Bright Sparcs archival underpinnings seem no more than lines spoken in a grand, unfolding theatre part of the story, not abstracted collections. Tim Sherratt 1996
- 17. www.invisibleaustralians.org Crowdsourced data extraction 50,000+ CEDTs Other files Match identities Eeek! http://www.invisibleaustralians.org
- 18. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: ST84/1, 1906/111-120
- 19. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: ST84/1, 1906/111-120
- 20. www.invisibleaustralians.org Choy Hing family including their adopted daughter, Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918
- 21. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918
- 22. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, 1921. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918
- 23. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, 1926. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918
- 24. www.invisibleaustralians.org Pauline Ah Hee, c. 1950. NAA: A659, 1950/1/1954
- 26. www.invisibleaustralians.org Shadee Khan, 1916. NAA: E752, 1916/8
- 27. www.invisibleaustralians.org Shadee Khan, 1916. NAA: E752, 1916/8
- 28. www.invisibleaustralians.org Shadee Khan, 1921. NAA: E752, 1921/21
- 29. www.invisibleaustralians.org Shadee Khan, 1925. NAA: E752, 1925/7
- 35. www.invisibleaustralians.org Use URLs to identify things in the real world
- 37. www.invisibleaustralians.org On the WWW we have the opportunity to give archives back their context, to embed them in stories about the people, places and events that brought about their creation. Our aim should be to create an infinite number of pathways through this collective memory opening our culture for exploration and greater participation, not simply arranging our institutions in a virtual showcase. Tim Sherratt 1996
- 40. www.invisibleaustralians.org The Flickr Machine Tag Challenge wraggelabs.com/fmtc/
- 43. www.invisibleaustralians.org Make links Give advice Create tools & examples Help! http://www.invisibleaustralians.org