Unremembering the forgotten

Tim Sherratt

doi:10.5281/zenodo.3566887

Unremembering the forgotten

Tim Sherratt

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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.

Original language	English
Pages	1-46
Number of pages	46
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3566887
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

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Conference	Annual Conference of the Association of Digital Humanities Organisations
Abbreviated title	DH2015
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Sydney
Period	29/06/15 → 3/07/15

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