Liberating lives: Invisible Australians and biographical networks

Liberating lives
Invisible Australians and
biographical networks
www.invisibleaustralians.org
Tim Sherratt
@wragge

Records

NAA: ST84/1, 1909/22/41-50

NAA: A1, 1911/13854

NAA: B2455, ALLEN C A

NAA: SP42/1, C1922/4449

For the years between 1902 and 1948 there
remain:
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More than 50,000 CEDTs
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90 shelf metres of records
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15,000 case files

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

(Auto)biographical ambitions

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

http://www.invisibleaustralians.org

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Crowdsourced data extraction
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50,000+ CEDTs
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Other files
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Match identities
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Eeek!

Pauline Ah Hee, 1906.
NAA: ST84/1, 1906/111-120

Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: ST84/1, 1906/111-120

Choy Hing family including their adopted daughter, Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918

Pauline Ah Hee, 1906. NAA: SP244/2, N1950/2/4918

Pauline Ah Hee, c. 1950. NAA: A659, 1950/1/1954

Pauline Ah Hee

Shadee Khan, 1916. NAA: E752, 1916/8

Shadee Khan, 1921. NAA: E752, 1921/21

Shadee Khan, 1925. NAA: E752, 1925/7

Shadee Khan

Pauline Ah Hee
Shadee Khan

Serendipity & semantics

History wall
defining.net.au/wall

Use URLs to identify things in the real world

Making connections #1
(online)

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

This is me:
http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-479364#foaf:Person

Wragge’s identity browser
wraggelabs.com/identities

The Flickr Machine Tag Challenge
wraggelabs.com/fmtc/

Making connections #2
(offline)

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Make links
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Give advice
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Create tools & examples
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Help!

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