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• Post #4394432

  All the Omeka toots courtesy of the fact that I'm doing some work on our Chinese Tasmanian Stories site – currently uploading data from NAA alien registration files that @baibi@hcommons.social saved into Zotero from RecordSearch & then annotated with names, dates etc.

• Post #4313221

  I haven't been able to update the Trove Data Guide since the NLA cancelled my API access, but I've edited the static HTML code to include a new warning. https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/home.html

• Post #4313220

  The convenience of Linux aliases is somewhat undermined by the fact that I can never remember what I've called them and then have to look up the command to list aliases which I never remember is actually just 'alias'.

• Post #4313219

  A brief update on the status of the Trove Data Guide: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/07/28/trove-data-guide-status.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities

• Post #4313218

  Oooo look what arrived in the post -- a box of @hello merch!

• Post #4313217

  Great job going at the State Library of Victoria for anyone interested in digital innovation in GLAMs – Innovation Lead in the SLV LAB (fulltime, 2 year fixed term): https://www.careers.vic.gov.au/job/innovation-lead-slv-lab-75882 Odd mix of tech skills though... #GLAM #libraries #JobAlert

• Post #4105473

  More #maintenance – I've moved the GLAM Workbench and Trove Data Guide to my wraggelabs server, and I've put everything on wraggelabs behind Anubis for bot protection.

• Post #4082828

  RE: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/116978072642196008 "Warning! History ahead."

• Post #3475060

  I've posted the text of my keynote last week for the GLAM Labs Futures conference, 'The future of the past: GLAM innovation and the responsibilities of history': https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/06/30/the-future-of-the-past.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities

• Post #2526975

  Are you looking for Victorian newspapers from a particular town or region? Try my new Victorian Newspapers Explorer! Just click on the map to see a list of titles from the State Library of Victoria – both digitised and non-digitised. https://slv.wraggelabs.com/newspapers/ #maps #libraries #histodons

• Post #2475037

  I call this work 'Realtime bot blocking'...

• Post #2475036

  Working on a new userscript that adds an option to the Trove interface to download a newspaper article or page as an image. Seems to be working...

• Post #2475034

  Ever wanted an easy way to save newspaper articles in Trove as high-resolution images? I've created a userscript that makes it easy to download cropped and masked articles, as well as full page images. https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-images-userscript

• Post #2475033

  Added a few experimental things to my new GLAM Databases server: https://glam-databases.net

• Post #2474249

  I blogged about my recent battles with AI scraper bots and moving all my GLAM databases to a new home with anti-bot defences. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/05/12/the-battle-of-the-bots.html #GLAM #bots #digitalHumanities

• Post #2282527

  I've created a new sponsorship page on @Liberapay! https://liberapay.com/wragge

• Post #2226468

  Archives AND time travel -- two of my favourite topics in one! Looking forward to reading this book by @lynnemthomas

• Post #2129806

  Happy birthday to the State Library of Victoria's LAB, which is one year old today! I wish all GLAM orgs had labs to foster innovation & collaboration. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au

• Post #2129804

  I've moved the Tasmanian, NSW & Victorian directories to my new server. Without any traffic it's all working beautifully! Feel free to have a play around so I can make sure things are ok before putting some redirects from the old addresses and letting the AI bots find them. https://glam-databases.net There's still a couple of databases to add, including the GLAM Name Index search which is the biggest of the lot...

• Post #2129800

  I wonder how many unfunded, experimental sites and apps have gone offline because their creators couldn't afford the time or money to battle the AI scraper bots...

• Post #2033294

  I've migrated my GLAM databases to a new home with AI bot defences. I have redirects in place so the old addresses will continue to work for now, but if you use any of these apps it would be a good idea to update your links/bookmarks! https://glam-databases.net

• Post #2026712

  Nice summary of some of the problems around 'transformative' agreements with academic publishers. https://researchwhisperer.org/2026/05/05/australias-open-access-strategy/

• Post #1383643

  There's more info about the Allmaps / @IIIF partnership (see last boost) here: https://allmaps.org/iiif-partnership I had a lot of fun hooking up IIIF & Allmaps to georeference digitised maps during my SLV residency, so I'm very glad to see this evolving. It's such a great demonstration of the value of open standards in the GLAM sector.

• Post #1213171

  If it's ok with everyone, I think we should just wind back and start this year again...

• Post #1102880

  Testing a new Zotero translator for the State Library of Victoria collection that captures metadata from the catalogue as well as metadata and PDFs/images from the digital item viewer.

• Post #1102879

  Looks like the AI bots have busy over Easter...

• Post #1102877

  I've updated my harvest of datasets shared by Australian GLAM organisations through government open data portals. There's now 446 datasets, containing 1283 data files, from 23 GLAM organisations. https://glam-workbench.net/glam-datasets-from-gov-portals/ #openGLAM

• Post #890259

  Waiting for @baibi's segment, coming up soon on ABC Hobart, talking about Chinese Tasmanian history. Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/hobart

• Post #890258

  Job alert! Library IT support job at Uni of Queensland (full time, permanent): https://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcareers/job/Library-IT-Officer_R-61005-1 #libraries #jobs

• Post #890257

  Even though my residency at SLV has finished, you can keep georeferencing their digitised maps. I've set up automated processes to save all the data and feed it into the apps I created for exploration and use. 1,460 maps have been georeferenced so far! https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/ #maps #GLAM