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Tim Sherratt : Curriculum Vitae

Bookish things

Sherratt, Tim. “Atomic Wonderland: Science and Progress in Twentieth Century Australia.” PhD, Australian National University, 2003. http://discontents.com.au/atomic-wonderland.
———. “Introduction.” In Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present, and Future. Australian Science Archives Project, 1997. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5111258.
Tim Sherratt. Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet. Metarch 16. Melbourne: Commonwealth Bureau of Meteorology, 2007. http://discontents.com.au/inigo-jones-the-weather-prophet/.
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

Bagnall, Kate, and Tim Sherratt. “Missing Links: Absence and Uncertainty in the Archive of Settler Colonial Citizenship.” Journal of World History (Special Issue on Digital Methods), Forthcoming 2020.
———. “Missing Links: Data Stories from the Archive of British Settler Colonial Citizenship.” Journal of World History 32, no. 2 (2021): 281–300. https://muse.jhu.edu/pub/5/article/794331.
Candela, Gustavo, Sally Chambers, and Tim Sherratt. “An Approach to Assess the Quality of Jupyter Projects Published by GLAM Institutions.” Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology 74, no. 13 (2023): 1550–64. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24835.
Debates in the Digital Humanities. “‘PART II ][ Chapter 12’ in ‘Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019’ on Manifold.” Accessed July 8, 2019. https://dhdebates.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/be608100-95b6-4e48-bfd5-a82a588da8f1#ch12.
Radio National. “Reinventing Archival Methods.” Sound, December 11, 2012. https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/futuretense/reinventing-archival-methods/4421526.
Scribd. “Emerging Technologies For The Provision of Access To Archives: Issues, Challenges and Ideas | Download Free PDF | Metadata | Tag (Metadata).” Accessed July 20, 2024. https://www.scribd.com/document/24402148/Emerging-technologies-for-the-provision-of-access-to-archives-issues-challenges-and-ideas.
Sherratt, Tim. “Asking Better Questions: History, Trove and the Risks That Count.” In Copyfight, edited by Phillipa McGuinness, 112–24. NewSouth Publishing, 2015. http://discontents.com.au/asking-better-questions-history-trove-and-the-risks-that-count/.
Sherratt, Tim. “‘A Political Inconvenience’: Australian Scientists as the British Atomic Weapons Tests, 1952-3.” Historical Records of Australian Science 6, no. 2 (December 1985): 137–52. http://discontents.com.au/a-political-inconvenience.
———. “‘A Political Inconvenience’: Australian Scientists at the British Atomic Weapons Tests, 1952-3.” Historical Records of Australian Science 6, no. 2 (December 1, 1985): 137–52. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5111263.
———. “Hacking Heritage: Understanding the Limits of Online Access.” In The Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites, edited by H Lewi, W Smith, S Cooke, and D vom Lehn, 116–30. London & New York: Routledge, 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5035855.
———. “It’s All about the Stuff: Collections, Interfaces, Power and People.” Journal of Digital Humanities 1, no. 1 (Winter 2011). http://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/its-all-about-the-stuff-by-tim-sherratt/.
———. “Unremembering the Forgotten.” In Debates in the Digital Humanities 2019, edited by Matthew K. Gold and Lauren F. Klein, 123–40. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2019. https://dhdebates.manifoldapp.org/read/untitled-f2acf72c-a469-49d8-be35-67f9ac1e3a60/section/be608100-95b6-4e48-bfd5-a82a588da8f1#ch12.
———. “Withheld, Pending Advice.” Inside Story, February 2, 2018. http://insidestory.org.au/withheld-pending-advice/.
Sherratt, Tim, and Kate Bagnall. “The People Inside.” In Seeing the Past with Computers: Experiments with Augmented Reality and Computer Vision for History, edited by Kevin Kee and Compeau, Timothy, 11–31. University of Michigan Press, 2019. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctvnjbdr0.4.
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/a-physicist-would-be-best-out-of-it.
———. “Atomic Testing.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 42–43. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998.
———. “Australian Scientists at the British Atomic Tests.” In Science Show 2, edited by Robyn Williams, 216–19. Nelson, 1985. http://discontents.com.au/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, 128–38. Society of American Archivists, 2011.
———. “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.
———. “Contexts, Connections, Access: The Glorious Possibilities of Getting It All Wrong.” Archives & Manuscripts 42, no. 2 (2014): 209–10. http://rkroundtable.org/2014/06/30/contexts-connections-access-the-glorious-possibilities-of-getting-it-all-wrong/.
———. “CSIRO.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 164–65. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/csiro.
———. “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/edgeworth-david.
———. “Emerging Technologies for the Provision of Access to Archives: Issues, Challenges and Ideas,” October 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/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, 121–42. Canberra: ANU E-Press, 2006. http://discontents.com.au/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/human-elements.
———. “Remembering Lawrence Hargrave.” In Yesterday’s Tomorrows: The Powerhouse Museum and Its Precursors, edited by Graeme Davison and Kimberley Webber, 174–85. Sydney: Powerhouse Museum in association with UNSW Press, 2005. http://discontents.com.au/remembering-lawrence-hargrave.
———. “Science, History Of.” In Oxford Companion to Australian History, edited by Graeme Davison, John Hirst, and Stuart Macintyre, 572–73. Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/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/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, 234–54. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 2006.
“What Can You Do With 200 Million Newspaper Articles: Exploring GLAM Data in the Humanities - ProQuest.” Accessed July 20, 2024. https://www.proquest.com/openview/296fabd7717e8f48feca5c1d04609c8b/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=2049297.

Conference papers

Sherratt, Tim. “From Portals to Platforms: Building New Frameworks for User Engagement.” October 21, 2013. http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/from-portal-to-platform.
———. “Life on the Outside: Collections, Contexts and the Wild, Wild, Web.” Keynote, September 20, 2014. http://discontents.com.au/life-on-the-outside/.
Tim Sherratt. “A Climate of Uncertainty.” Canberra, 2006.
———. “A Conspiracy Reveal’d.” After-dinner speech, May 6, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/a-conspiracy-reveald.
———. “(A Hopefully Fairly Painless Introduction to) Linked Open Data.” Presentation, May 4, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/a-hopefully-fairly-painless-introduction-to-linked-open-data.
———. “‘A Map and Some Pins’: Open Data and Unlimited Horizons.” April 25, 2013. http://discontents.com.au/a-map-and-some-pins-open-data-and-unlimited-horizons/.
———. “A World to Win: The WWW Experience of a Small Organisation with Big Dreams.” Sydney, 1995. http://discontents.com.au/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, December 12, 2007.
———. “Archives of Emotion.” November 29, 2012. http://discontents.com.au/archives-of-emotion/.
———. “Beyond Discovery.” October 23, 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/beyond-discovery.
———. “Beyond the Front Page.” June 27, 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/beyond-the-front-page.
———. “Collected Content / Distributed Meanings.” September 23, 2013. http://www.nla.gov.au/our-publications/staff-papers/collected-content-distributed-meanings.
———. “Confessions of an Impatient Historian.” June 8, 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/confessionspdf.
———. “Conversations with Collections.” June 21, 2013. http://discontents.com.au/conversations-with-collections/.
———. “Digital Disruptions: Finding New Ways to Break Things.” October 12, 2012. http://discontents.com.au/digital-disruptions-finding-new-ways-to-break-things.
———. “Digital History: New Tools and Techniques.” Education, November 13, 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/digital-history-new-tools-and-techniques.
———. “Digital Perspectives on the Archives of Immigration.” 2016. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/digital-perspectives-on-the-archives-of-immigration.
———. “Digitised Newspapers and the Varieties of Value.” September 29, 2014. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/digitised-newspapers-and-the-varieties-of-value.
———. “Every Story Has a Beginning.” Keynote, 2011. http://discontents.com.au/every-story-has-a-beginning.
———. “Exploring with Confidence.” Invited presentation, March 1, 2013. http://discontents.com.au/exploring-with-confidence/.
———. “Exposing the Archives of White Australia.” Invited presentation, February 26, 2013. http://discontents.com.au/exposing-the-archives-of-white-australia/.
———. “Inigo Jones: The Weather Prophet.” Public lecture, June 8, 2005. http://naa.gov.au/collection/issues/sherratt-2005.aspx.
———. “Inside the Bureaucracy of White Australia.” 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/inside-the-bureaucracy-of-white-australia.
———. “Introduction to Trove.” September 25, 2014. https://vimeo.com/112887838.
———. “It’s All about the Stuff.” November 2011. http://discontents.com.au/its-all-about-the-stuff-collections-interfaces-power-and-people/.
———. “Liberating Lives: Invisible Australians and Biographical Networks.” Canberra, 2010. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/liberating-lives-invisible-australians-and-biographical-networks.
———. “Mapping Our Archives.” George Mason University, 2009.
———. “Mining for Meanings.” May 8, 2012. http://discontents.com.au/mining-for-meanings/.
———. “Mining the Treasures of Trove: New Approaches and New Tools.” February 2012. http://discontents.com.au/mining-the-treasures-of-trove/.
———. “Myths, Megaprojects & Making.” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/myths-megaprojects-making.
———. “Of Maps and Metadata.” Public lecture, April 6, 2009.
———. “On Seams and Edges  - Dreams of Aggregation Access and Discovery in A….” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/on-seams-and-edges-dreams-of-aggregation-access-and-discovery-in-a-broken-world-slides.
———. “On the Beach: Australia’s Nuclear History.” University of Melbourne, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/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/pathways-to-memory.
———. “Phyllis in Atomic Wonderland.” University of NSW, 1992. http://discontents.com.au/phyllis-in-atomic-wonderland.
———. “Recording the Weather.” Perth, 2008. http://naa.gov.au/Images/tim-sherratt_tcm2-13009.pdf.
———. “Reinventing Digital Culture.” September 10, 2013. http://www.nla.gov.au/podcasts/innovative-ideas-forum.html#reinventing-digital-culture.
———. “Significance at Scale: Understanding the Value of 150 Million Newspap….” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/significance-at-scale-understanding-the-value-of-150-million-newspaper-articles.
———. “Small Stories in a Big Data World.” November 20, 2012. http://discontents.com.au/small-stories-in-a-big-data-world/.
———. “The 4Es -- Doing More with Metadata.” Presentation, 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.
———. “The Digital Revolution and the Practice of History.” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-digital-revolution-and-the-practice-of-history.
———. “The Future of Trove.” March 18, 2014. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-future-of-trove.
———. “The Many Meanings of Trove.” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-many-meanings-of-trove.
———. “The Responsibilities of Data: Reconstructing Lives from the Records of the White Australia Policy.” 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-responsibilities-of-data-reconstructing-lives-from-the-records-of-the-white-australia-policy-13768896.
———. “The Revolution Will Not Be Digital.” 2016. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/the-revolution-will-not-be-digital.
———. “Too Important Not to Try.” October 19, 2012. http://discontents.com.au/too-important-not-to-try/.
———. “Trove -- Yes, It’s Bigger on the Inside.” June 17, 2014. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/trove-introduction-for-govhack-data-jam.
———. “Trove: Being the Cloud.” October 31, 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/trove-being-the-cloud.
———. “Trove in a Linked Data Universe.” November 1, 2013. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/trove-in-the-linked-data-universe.
———. “Unpacking the Cabinet.” Speech, February 26, 1997. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/cabinet/events/farewell_speech.htm.
———. “Unremembering the Forgotten.” 2015. https://www.slideshare.net/wragge/unremembering-the-forgotten.
———. “Unsung Heroes.” Speech, 1998. http://discontents.com.au/unsung-heroes.
———. “What Are the ‘Matters of Essentially National Concern’?” Presentation, February 25, 2008.
———. “Wragge.” After-dinner performance, September 26, 2002. http://discontents.com.au/wragge.
Tim Sherratt, and Kate Bagnall. “Invisible Australians: Living under the White Australia Policy.” 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/wragge/invisible-australians.
Tim Sherratt, and Paul Hagon. “Brewing Your Own Linked Data.” Workshop, February 3, 2014.
Trove -- It’s Bigger on the Inside. Canberra, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaNJA6u2BLo&feature=youtube_gdata_player.

Magazine articles

Tim Sherratt. “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.
———. “A War Against Disease.” Australasian Science, 1994. http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/exhib/journal/as_keogh.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/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/political-fallout.
———. “Powered by Partnerships: Trove Year 5 and Beyond.” Museums Australia Magazine, Winter 2014. http://issuu.com/museumsaustralia/docs/mam_22-4/24?e=2140540/9222590.
———. “The Many Battles of Jock Marshall.” Australasian Science, 1996. http://discontents.com.au/the-many-battles-of-jock-marshall.

Datasets

Sherratt, Tim. “Public Tags Added to Resources in Trove, 2008 to 2021.” Zenodo, July 10, 2021. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5094314.