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Tim Sherratt : Curriculum Vitae

Bookish things

    “PORTS EASY TRIUMPH. Glenelg Score One Point in Last Half.” The Mail. Adelaide, SA, May 5, 1923. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article63443182.
    Sherratt, Tim. “Atomic Wonderland: Science and Progress in Twentieth Century Australia”. PhD, Australian National University, 2003. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/history-of-australian-science/atomic-wonderland.
    Tim Sherratt. Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet. Metarch 16. Melbourne: Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, 2007.
    Tim Sherratt, Libby Robin, and Tom Griffiths, eds. A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. http://www.nma.gov.au/about_us/publications/a_change_in_the_weather/.
    Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste, and Rosanne Clayton, eds. Recovering Science - Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future - Proceedings of a conference held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992. Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/recovering/.

Book chapters and articles

    Tim Sherratt. “A climate for a nation.” In Federation and Meteorology. Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2001. http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0001.html.
    ———. “‘A physicist would be best out of it’: George Briggs at the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission.” Voices, no. Autumn (1993). http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/a-physicist-would-be-best-out-of-it.
    ———. “‘A political inconvenience’: Australian scientists as the British atomic weapons tests, 1952-3.” Historical Records of Australian Science 6, no. 2 (December 1985): 137-152. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/a-political-inconvenience.
    ———. “Atomic testing.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 42-3. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
    ———. “Australian scientists at the British atomic tests.” In Science Show 2, edited by Robyn Williams, 216-9. Nelson, 1985. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/australian-scientists-at-the-british-atomic-tests.
    ———. “Bringing Life to Records: ‘Mapping Our Anzacs’ at the National Archives of Australia.” In A Different Kind of Web: New Connections between Archives and Our Users with Web 2.0, edited by Kate Theimer. Society of American Archivists, 2011.
    ———. “CSIRO.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 164-5. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/csiro.
    ———. “Civilisation versus the giant, winged lizards – Changing climates, changing minds.” Altitude, no. 7 (2006). http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/13197/20060927-0000/www.api-network.com/cgi-bin/altitude21c/flyfacd.html?page=Issue7&n=1.
    ———. “David, Tannatt William Edgeworth (1858-1934).” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 178. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/edgeworth-david.
    ———. Emerging technologies for the provision of access to archives: issues, challenges and ideas, 2009. http://www.scribd.com/doc/24402148/Emerging-technologies-for-the-provision-of-access-to-archives-issues-challenges-and-ideas.
    ———. “Florey, Howard Walter (1898-1968).” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 258. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/howard-florey.
    ———. “Frontiers of the future: science and progress in 20th-century Australia.” In Dislocating the frontier: essaying the mystique of the outback, edited by Deborah Bird Rose and Richard Davis, 121-142. Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/frontiers-of-the-future.
    ———. “Human elements.” In A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, edited by Tim Sherratt, Libby Robin, and Tom Griffiths, 1-17. Canberra: National Museum of Australia Press, 2005. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/human-elements.
    ———. “Remembering Lawrence Hargrave.” In Yesterday’s Tomorrows: The Powerhouse Museum and its precursors, edited by Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber, 174-185. Sydney: Powerhouse Museum in association with UNSW Press, 2005. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/remembering-lawrence-hargrave.
    ———. “Science, history of.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 572-3. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/history-of-science-in-australia.
    ———. “The motion that might have saved the Whitlam government.” National Archives of Australia, 2008. http://naa.gov.au/whats-on/online/feature-exhibits/dismissal/index.aspx.
    ———. “The weather prophets.” In Federation and Meteorology. Melbourne: Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, 2001. http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/fam/0006.html.
    Tim Sherratt, and Anne-Marie Conde. “A wartime observatory observed: the Mount Stromlo community, 1940-1945”, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/history-of-australian-science/a-wartime-observatory-observed.
    Tim Sherratt, and Gavan McCarthy. “Mapping scientific memory.” Archives and Manuscripts 24, no. 1 (May 1996). http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/pubs/articles/gjm/mapscimem.htm.
    Tim Sherratt, and Tom Griffiths. “What if the northern rivers had been turned inland.” In What if? Australian history as it might have been, edited by Stuart Macintyre and Sean Scalmer, 234-254. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 206.

Conference papers

    “A climate of uncertainty”. Canberra, 2006.
    “Liberating lives: Invisible Australians and biographical networks”. Canberra, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/liberating-lives-invisible-australians-and-biographical-networks.
    Tim Sherratt. “(a hopefully fairly painless introduction to) Linked Open Data”. Presentation presented at the NSW Reference and Information Services Group seminar, State Library of NSW, Sydney, May 4, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/a-hopefully-fairly-painless-introduction-to-linked-open-data.
    ———. “A conspiracy reveal’d”. After-dinner speech presented at the Working with Knowledge Conference, Canberra, May 6, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/history-of-australian-science/a-conspiracy-reveald.
    ———. “A world to win: The WWW experience of a small organisation with big dreams”. Sydney, 1995. http://discontents.com.au/words/conference-papers/a-world-to-win.
    ———. “Advertising your archives on the WWW”. Canberra, 1995. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/asa/wkshp/asawww1.htm.
    ———. “All this paraphenalia – a Constitution for a nation”. Presentation presented at the branch training session, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, December 12, 2007.
    ———. “Inigo Jones: the weather prophet”. Public lecture, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, June 8, 2005. http://naa.gov.au/collection/issues/sherratt-2005.aspx.
    ———. “Mapping our archives”. George Mason University, 2009.
    ———. “Of maps and metadata”. Public lecture, New York Public Library, April 6, 2009.
    ———. “On the beach: Australia’s nuclear history”. University of Melbourne, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/atomic-age/on-the-beach-australias-nuclear-history.
    ———. “Pathways to memory.” In Proceedings of AusWeb96 - The Second Australian World Wide Web Conference. Southern Cross University, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/words/articles/pathways-to-memory.
    ———. “Phyllis in atomic wonderland”. University of NSW, 1992. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/atomic-age/phyllis-in-atomic-wonderland.
    ———. “Recording the weather”. Perth, 2008. http://naa.gov.au/Images/tim-sherratt_tcm2-13009.pdf.
    ———. “The 4Es -- Doing more with metadata”. Presentation presented at the CAARA Residential School, Canberra, November 10, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-four-es-doing-more-with-metadata.
    ———. “The Bright Sparcs Project - Combining Directory and Publishing Functions in a Subject-Specific Resource”. Melbourne, 1996. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/confs/rdw96/bs_rdw1.htm.
    ———. “Unpacking the cabinet”. Speech presented at the Cabinet of Curiosities Farewell, Canberra, February 26, 1997. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/cabinet/events/farewell_speech.htm.
    ———. “Unsung heroes”. Speech presented at the launch of Murray Upton, <em>A rich and diverse fauna</em>, CSIRO Entomology, Canberra, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/shoebox/history-of-australian-science/unsung-heroes.
    ———. “What are the ‘matters of essentially national concern’?” Presentation presented at the staff training session, National Archives of Australia, Canberra, February 25, 2008.
    ———. “Wragge”. After-dinner performance presented at the Climate and Culture conference, Canberra, September 26, 2002. http://discontents.com.au/words/speeches/wragge.

Magazine articles

    Tim Sherratt. “A War Against Disease.” Australasian Science, 1994. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_keogh.htm.
    ———. “A model scientist.” Australasian Science, 1993. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_hills.htm.
    ———. “A passion for physics - Joan Freeman.” Australasian Science, 1993. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_freeman.htm.
    ———. “Communicating with Wild Life.” Australasian Science Mag, 1992. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_morri.htm.
    ———. “Finding Life in Ancient Corals.” Australasian Science, 1994. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_hill.htm.
    ———. “From Beetles to a Nobel Prize.” Australasian Science, 1994. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_burnet.htm.
    ———. “From cameleers to citizens: Muslims in Australia, 1901–75’.” Memento, 2007.
    ———. “Looking at the sun.” Memento, 2008. http://discontents.com.au/words/magazines-articles/looking-at-the-sun.
    ———. “No standing back - Dame Jean Macnamara.” Australasian Science, 1993. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_macna.htm.
    ———. “Political fallout: Australian scientists and the atomic bomb.” Australasian Science, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/words/magazines-articles/political-fallout.
    ———. “The many battles of Jock Marshall.” Australasian Science, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/words/magazines-articles/the-many-battles-of-jock-marshall.