June 21, 2011 / Tim Sherratt

Some exhibition magic with Zotero and Omeka

I tell the full story of the newspaper’s campaign in Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet.…

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June 16, 2011 / Tim Sherratt

Confessions of an impatient historian

Here’s the slides from the talk I gave recently in the Scholars’ Lab at the…

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March 6, 2011 / Tim Sherratt

Mining the treasures of Trove (part 2)

One of the advantages of building something yourself is that if you’re not happy with…

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February 13, 2011 / Tim Sherratt

Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet

I’m currently working on a html version of this with added links and content, but…

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December 22, 2010 / Tim Sherratt

Inside the big tent

I seem to have been repeating myself a lot lately. Bethany Nowviskie’s recent visit to…

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November 16, 2010 / Tim Sherratt

Has anyone seen my Cabinet?

In March 1997, a replica of the HMB Endeavour arrived in the UK from Australia.…

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September 28, 2010 / Tim Sherratt

Liberating lives: invisible Australians and biographical networks

Presented at the Life of Information Symposium, 24 September 2010. Slides are available on Slideshare.…

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February 3, 2010 / Tim Sherratt

Emerging technologies and the need to experiment

About a month ago I posted a copy of my report Emerging technologies for the…

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December 22, 2009 / Tim Sherratt

Doing it yourself

I was doing some research using the National Archives of Australia’s RecordSearch database the other…

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November 5, 2009 / Tim Sherratt

Some archives hacking

It’s great to see that the National Archives of Australia has released a large swag…

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