A few days before Christmas, Deb Verhoeven and I published an article in the Conversation on the latest funding crisis facing the National Library of Australia’s Trove service which included a visitor statistic: Trove boasts more than 22 million visits per year. Here we look at that number, and other usage stats, in more detail.
This is the text from a presentation I delivered as part of the History Australia roundtable discussion ‘Historians and the Archive: sacralization, democratisation, limits, and liberties,’ at the 2022 Australian Historical Association Conference (Deakin University, Geelong). The piece introduces my article ‘The temple of history: historians and the sacralisation of archival work.’
This is an edited version of my closing keynote for the Victorian Museums and Galleries Forum on 18 May 2022.
There were lots of tales about bunyips in the 19th century from across the south east of Australia. As part of my work with the Research Centre for Deep History at Australian National University, I’ve been exploring workflows for capturing and mapping historical stories like these as part of broader landscapes. This blog post looks at a few of my experiments, along with some considerations and identified challenges, and hopefully some useful links and references along the way.
The following is based on a short presentation I gave at GLAMSLAM 2020, hosted by the Australian Centre for Public History, University of Technology, Sydney, on Friday, 6 March 2020. I have updated it based on recent events, and have adapted my slides and notes to produce a graphic blog post.
On Friday, 24 January 2020 I sent out a tweet asking people what they thought were the key digital humanities readings and projects every historian should look at. This post summarises their responses.
Monday, 27 January This morning I sealed our front door again. At first we used basic masking tape, but with the new year came a realisation the smoke would be with us for weeks. Looking back at the photos on… Continue Reading →
This long read on the pathways and trails found in and through collections is based on my recent keynote presentation at the 2019 Research Applications in Information and Library Studies (RAILS) Conference, Towards Critical Information Research, Education & Practice, hosted by the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University (28-29 October 2019).
In the first week of September 2019, more than 4500 museum professionals from 120 countries descended on Kyoto for the 25th General Conference of the International Council of Museums. This post reflects on the conference, and the disconnect between individuals, institutions, and ICOM’s proposed new museum definition.
In late June 2019, Tristram Hunt wrote a piece for The Guardian: ‘Should museums return their colonial artefacts?’
Here I want to focus specifically on museum documentation, viewed through the lens of what is perhaps Hunt’s most problematic statement: “For a museum like the V&A, to decolonise is to decontextualise.” Any examination of museum artefacts online quickly reveals that, when it comes to metadata, missing context is a significant issue, and the concept of decolonisation a valuable part of the solution.
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