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  Here it is! Introducing Z-Profile – a simple website builder for researchers: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/10/07/introducing-zprofile-a-simple-website.html No code, no new software – all you need is @zotero@fosstodon.org & somewhere to host your site. Please share! #histodons

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  All the Omeka toots courtesy of the fact that I'm doing some work on our Chinese Tasmanian Stories site – currently uploading data from NAA alien registration files that @baibi@hcommons.social saved into Zotero from RecordSearch & then annotated with names, dates etc.

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  I haven't been able to update the Trove Data Guide since the NLA cancelled my API access, but I've edited the static HTML code to include a new warning. https://tdg.glam-workbench.net/home.html

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  The convenience of Linux aliases is somewhat undermined by the fact that I can never remember what I've called them and then have to look up the command to list aliases which I never remember is actually just 'alias'.

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  A brief update on the status of the Trove Data Guide: https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/07/28/trove-data-guide-status.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities

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  Oooo look what arrived in the post -- a box of @hello merch!

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  Great job going at the State Library of Victoria for anyone interested in digital innovation in GLAMs – Innovation Lead in the SLV LAB (fulltime, 2 year fixed term): https://www.careers.vic.gov.au/job/innovation-lead-slv-lab-75882 Odd mix of tech skills though... #GLAM #libraries #JobAlert

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  More #maintenance – I've moved the GLAM Workbench and Trove Data Guide to my wraggelabs server, and I've put everything on wraggelabs behind Anubis for bot protection.

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  RE: https://mastodon.online/@globalmuseum/116978072642196008 "Warning! History ahead."

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  I've posted the text of my keynote last week for the GLAM Labs Futures conference, 'The future of the past: GLAM innovation and the responsibilities of history': https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/06/30/the-future-of-the-past.html #GLAM #digitalHumanities

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  Are you looking for Victorian newspapers from a particular town or region? Try my new Victorian Newspapers Explorer! Just click on the map to see a list of titles from the State Library of Victoria – both digitised and non-digitised. https://slv.wraggelabs.com/newspapers/ #maps #libraries #histodons

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  I call this work 'Realtime bot blocking'...

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  Working on a new userscript that adds an option to the Trove interface to download a newspaper article or page as an image. Seems to be working...

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  Ever wanted an easy way to save newspaper articles in Trove as high-resolution images? I've created a userscript that makes it easy to download cropped and masked articles, as well as full page images. https://github.com/wragge/trove-newspaper-images-userscript

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  Added a few experimental things to my new GLAM Databases server: https://glam-databases.net

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  I blogged about my recent battles with AI scraper bots and moving all my GLAM databases to a new home with anti-bot defences. https://updates.timsherratt.org/2026/05/12/the-battle-of-the-bots.html #GLAM #bots #digitalHumanities

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  I've created a new sponsorship page on @Liberapay! https://liberapay.com/wragge

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  Archives AND time travel -- two of my favourite topics in one! Looking forward to reading this book by @lynnemthomas

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  Happy birthday to the State Library of Victoria's LAB, which is one year old today! I wish all GLAM orgs had labs to foster innovation & collaboration. https://lab.slv.vic.gov.au

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  I've moved the Tasmanian, NSW & Victorian directories to my new server. Without any traffic it's all working beautifully! Feel free to have a play around so I can make sure things are ok before putting some redirects from the old addresses and letting the AI bots find them. https://glam-databases.net There's still a couple of databases to add, including the GLAM Name Index search which is the biggest of the lot...

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  I wonder how many unfunded, experimental sites and apps have gone offline because their creators couldn't afford the time or money to battle the AI scraper bots...

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  I've migrated my GLAM databases to a new home with AI bot defences. I have redirects in place so the old addresses will continue to work for now, but if you use any of these apps it would be a good idea to update your links/bookmarks! https://glam-databases.net

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  Nice summary of some of the problems around 'transformative' agreements with academic publishers. https://researchwhisperer.org/2026/05/05/australias-open-access-strategy/

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  There's more info about the Allmaps / @IIIF partnership (see last boost) here: https://allmaps.org/iiif-partnership I had a lot of fun hooking up IIIF & Allmaps to georeference digitised maps during my SLV residency, so I'm very glad to see this evolving. It's such a great demonstration of the value of open standards in the GLAM sector.

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  If it's ok with everyone, I think we should just wind back and start this year again...

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  Testing a new Zotero translator for the State Library of Victoria collection that captures metadata from the catalogue as well as metadata and PDFs/images from the digital item viewer.

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  Looks like the AI bots have busy over Easter...

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  I've updated my harvest of datasets shared by Australian GLAM organisations through government open data portals. There's now 446 datasets, containing 1283 data files, from 23 GLAM organisations. https://glam-workbench.net/glam-datasets-from-gov-portals/ #openGLAM

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  Waiting for @baibi's segment, coming up soon on ABC Hobart, talking about Chinese Tasmanian history. Listen here: https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/hobart

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  Job alert! Library IT support job at Uni of Queensland (full time, permanent): https://uq.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-GB/uqcareers/job/Library-IT-Officer_R-61005-1 #libraries #jobs