Comments on: Archives in 3D

By: discontents - Embedded archives

discontents - Embedded archives — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 12:14:58 +0000

[…] viewers will recall my previous encounters with CoolIris — Archives in 3D and CoolIris enabled scrapbook — but these relied on having the CoolIris plugin installed. […]

By: discontents - Doing it yourself

discontents - Doing it yourself — Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:42:12 +0000

[…] with interfaces without touching any of the underlying code. My rewrite of the way RecordSearch displays digitised files is an example of […]

By: Bob Meade

Bob Meade — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:32:07 +0000

Thanks Tim. That’ll do the trick.

I’ll see if I can install Zotero tomorrow.

By: tim

tim — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 06:43:15 +0000

Hi Bob,

Yep it’s easy once you know how, the url is just:

http://www.naa.gov.au/cgi-bin/Search?O=I&Number=%5Bbarcode%5D

However, the easiest way to get persistent urls for RecordSearch (if you have Firefox) is to install Zotero. My translator for RecordSearch is included with the installation, so all you have to do is click on the document icon that shows up in the location bar and you’ll save the item details – including a persistent url.

Actually there’s a new version of my translator about to be released which includes all sorts of fancy extras — I’ll blog about it soon. I’m also working on translators for some other archival databases.

By: Bob Meade

Bob Meade — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 02:40:24 +0000

Thanks for your work on RecordSearch and improving the display.

I wonder it there’s a hack you would be willing to share?

Individiual pages in digital copies on RecordSearch have no persistent URL easily available. I suspect the URL is something simplem, and has something to do with the barcode, but I don’t know how to work out what it is.

I’m particularly interested in World War One service records at the moment.

Could you help me please?

By: discontents - Harvesting context #1: Flickr comments

discontents - Harvesting context #1: Flickr comments — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:57:59 +0000

[…] harvest comments from Flickr and display them within existing collection interfaces. As before (here and here), Greasemonkey was my tool of choice for hacking finding aids. The plan was to trigger a […]

By: discontents - Cooliris-enabled scrapbook

discontents - Cooliris-enabled scrapbook — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:08:12 +0000

[…] given the 3D treatment to digitised files from the National Archives of Australia and portrait images from the Australian Dictionary of […]

By: discontents - Cloudy biographies and portrait walls

discontents - Cloudy biographies and portrait walls — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 08:26:18 +0000

[…] already been playing with CoolIris, so I decided to harvest all the portrait references and use them to create a 3D wall. The result […]