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Abstract
Invited keynote presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations, 3 July 2015.
Access will never be open. Every CSV is an expression of power, every API is an argument. While I would gladly take back the time I’ve spent wresting data from HTML I recognise the value of the struggle. The bureaucratic structures of the White Australia policy live on in the descriptive hierarchies of the National Archives. To build our wall of faces we had to dismantle these structures – to drill down through series, items, documents and images until we found the people inside. I feel differently about the records because of that. Access can never simply be given, at some level it has to be taken.
Access will never be open. Every CSV is an expression of power, every API is an argument. While I would gladly take back the time I’ve spent wresting data from HTML I recognise the value of the struggle. The bureaucratic structures of the White Australia policy live on in the descriptive hierarchies of the National Archives. To build our wall of faces we had to dismantle these structures – to drill down through series, items, documents and images until we found the people inside. I feel differently about the records because of that. Access can never simply be given, at some level it has to be taken.
Original language | English |
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Pages | 1-46 |
Number of pages | 46 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 3 Jul 2015 |
Event | Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations - University of Western Sydney, Sydney, Australia Duration: 29 Jun 2015 → 3 Jul 2015 |
Conference
Conference | Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations |
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Abbreviated title | DH2015 |
Country/Territory | Australia |
City | Sydney |
Period | 29/06/15 → 3/07/15 |
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Unremembering the forgotten
Tim Sherratt (Speaker)
3 Jul 2015Activity: Talk or presentation › Invited talk