Technologist Talk: Tim Sherratt
Dec 3

Over the past 12 weeks, Hacker and historian Tim Sherratt has been SLV LAB’s creative technologist-in-residence, exploring place-based collection data.

Drawing on materials like the Committee for Urban Action (CUA) collection, the Mahlstedt fire survey maps, the MMBW plans, and the Victorian parish maps, Tim has experimented with new digital tools to try and help users navigate the Library's collections by place. This includes developing methods for georeferencing digitised maps and linking CUA photos to the locations they document. He has also created a new index to the  Sands & MacDougall directories.

Processes like these transforms collection materials into geospatial data that can be indexed, visualised and manipulated, unlocking new possibilities for research and discovery.

Join us as Tim shares some prototypes of his work and walks us through how they were created.

This is a FREE, unticketed event, so please join us in the Create Quarter (Ground Floor) at State Library Victoria.

About Tim Sherratt

Tim Sherratt is a historian and hacker who researches the possibilities and politics of digital cultural collections. Tim has worked across the cultural heritage sector and has been developing online resources relating to libraries, archives, museums and history since 1993. You can find him at timsherratt.au or on Mastodon as hcommons.social/@wragge.

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