I recorded a video for my #SLVResidency on hacking the SLV website. It talks about looking beneath the hood of #GLAM websites to try and imagine alternatives & fix problems. lab.slv.vic.gov.au/resources/hack-website-v... #libraries #digitalHumanities
Screenshot of prototype interface. In the header there's a modern map showing a street address. Under the heading "my house" there's six digitised maps displayed. On each historic map, a marker indicates the street address.
What sorts of things do georeferenced maps make possible? This interface turns a street address into a point, finds georeferenced maps from the SLV that include that point, then displays the historic maps with a marker showing the location of the modern address. #SLVResidency
Screenshot of Datasette interface showing three loaded databases named: "georeferenced maps", "cua" and "newspapers".
Today was a bit frustrating in #SLVResidency work. But I've now got more collection items into Datasette/Spatialite so I can make spatial queries, including the Committee for Urban Action photos and the georeferenced maps. I'm adding a series of canned […]
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Sneaking up on 500 maps from the SLV georeferenced – in just over 2 weeks. With another 2 weeks to go before my #SLVResidency ends, we might actually make it to 1,000! That would be amazing. https://wragge.github.io/slv-allmaps/dashboard.html
If you're interested in hearing more about what I've been doing during my #SLVResidency, I'll be giving a talk at 1pm on 3 December in the Library's Create Quarter.
Screenshot of a prototype app. The app is headed "my place". In the top right hand corner there's a map, with a box where you can enter an address. The address value is "Brunswick Street Fitzroy". The map is centred on Fitzroy and a marker shows the position of Brunswick street. Below the header are two sections: "my street" and "my suburb". The my street section is display entries from the Sands & Mac directories for Brunswick Street. The suburb section is showing a small map display the bounds of Fitzroy, and a number of images of Fitzroy from the SLV collection.
Starting to bring various bits of my #SLVResidency together in a new prototype...
A little bit terrified of all the things I want to get done before the end of my #SLVResidency on 5 December...
A few weeks back, as part of my #SLVResidency, I created a big, fully-searchable database with all the content from the 24 volumes of Sands & MacDougall's directories digitised by the SLV. I've finally written up the details: updates.timsherratt.org/2025/11/12/a-new-way-of-... […]
Been flat out this week trying to get the map georeferencing stuff done, but now I've hit a wall. Need to get myself going again next week because there's only a month left in my #SLVResidency and so much that I still want to do...
Once the documentation is done I'm going to ask folks to help me georeference as many SLV maps as possible before the end of my #SLVResidency in December. In particular I'd like to get some of the MMBW maps done and in a spatial index. More soon!
Screenshot of the State Library of Victoria's digitised file viewer, showing an extra section headed 'Georeferencing' added by the userscript. The section includes buttons to edit the georeferencing using the AllMaps Editor, and view the results using the AllMaps Viewer. It also embeds the AllMaps viewer in an iframe, showing the georeferenced map overlaid on a modern basemap, skewed to match coordinates.
Feeling a bit pleased with this latest prototype for my #SLVResidency – it's a userscript that adds links to georeference digitised maps in the SLV collection using AllMaps. If an item has already been georeferenced it embed the AllMaps viewer to show the […]
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Today's achievements in my #SLVResidency – got Vite going with UniversalViewer and Bulma; created a spatial database (Datasette with Spatialite) running in the cloud with a few canned queries that will let me find roads and photos from the Committee for Urban Action data within a specific […]
Screen shot of my prototype CUA collection browser, showing a map of Melbourne with roads highlighted in blue. The currently selected road is highlighted in red. Below the map, photos are displayed in film strip style.
New prototype from my #SLVResidency! This one lets you explore photos from the Committee for Urban Action collection by selecting one of the highlighted roads on a map of Victoria. It's very much work-in-progress and will probably change a lot, but you can […]
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Still a work-in-progress, but if you want to try searching all of the Sands & MacDougall directories digitised by the State Library of Victoria, go here: glam-workbench.net/state-library-victoria/s... It's part of my #SLVResidency... #histodons #familyHistory
Today in my #SLVResidency, I'm going to have a look at the Sands & Macdougall directories: find.slv.vic.gov.au/discovery/collectionDisc... I've previously converted NSW & TAS directories to full-text searchable databases, so I'm […]
Catching up on some blogging for my #SLVResidency ... Here's a post about some work I did a couple of weeks back creating bounding boxes for parish maps from the point, size, and scale metadata. updates.timsherratt.org/2025/10/06/creating-boun... #maps #libraries […]
Heading home after two weeks onsite for my #SLVResidency. I've got a long list of things to work on for the next couple of months before I head back to Melbourne to wrap things up.
Today in my #SLVResidency I recorded a hybrid video/screencast that's really a cut down version of the 'hacking the library' workshop I gave yesterday. Coming soon to the SLV LAB's video feeds!
Today in my #SLVResidency I led a Code Club workshop where I encouraged SLV staff to hack their own website. We explored how bookmarklets and userscripts can be used to integrate new information, add new functions, and experiment with new possibilities. The slides are here […]
Hey! My post about my #SLVResidency made it into the Editor's Choice section of the latest @DHNow: https://digitalhumanitiesnow.org
Screenshot of the SLV image viewer showing that an extra row has been added to the 'More information' section that includes a link to Wikimedia Commons.
Today in my #SLVResidency I created a userscript that adds links to Wikimedia Commons to the SLV image viewer if the image has been uploaded to the Commons (and the handle url is in the metadata). You can then see if the item has been used in other Wiki […]
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Screenshot of a street map of Fitzroy, with many streets marked in red indicating that those segments have been linked to SLV records.
For my #SLVResidency I've been working on a way to geolocate these road segments, so we can link the photos to their locations. I've now got a proof of concept working! I just downloaded the first 200 results from Fitzroy and ran them through. Here's the road segments linked to SLV records on a map.
Screenshot from a Jupyter notebook, showing two maps. The first map is headed: "Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, from Gertrude Street to Victoria Parade - west side.". The second is headed: "Weatherall Street, Bendigo, from Wood Street to Christian Street - east side." Both maps have red lines drawn on them indicating the road segment described in the heading.
Some more refinement of the road segment finder for my #SLVResidency -- now getting a bbox for the suburb first, then querying within that for intersections. And finally worked out how to get nice smooth lines from the OSM way data!
A screencapture of a street map showing part of Fitzroy. A red line (or lines) is drawn along Brunswick Street between Gertrude Street and Victoria Parade.
No blog post yet, but in my #SLVResidency today I tried to figure out how to turn captions like 'Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, from Gertrude Street to Victoria Parade' into georeferenced street segments using the Open Street Map API. Still some things to connect […]
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