Libraryhack entries

The words, terminologies, descriptive sentences we enter into search engines are more than simply directives to find entries and objects. They represent cultural norms, personal experiences and biases, the hot topics of the day, and the larger cultural interests that drive our individual desires. Using the library’s search term txt files, Cities of Search generates a dynamic artwork driven by frequency and occurrences of specific emotional words. Terms like hate and love, desire and loss are represented on the screen by building blocks, which then form a strange, interactive and moving skyline/cityscape. The abstraction of search words are visualized into a multi-level artwork, where users can move and explore the collective emotional state of library users.

This artwork uses Queensland search terms data and SLQ Flickr Images. Emotional Cities of Search also allows users to include search terms data sets from other states as well. This gives the user the chance to dynamically compare and remix various datasets.

URL of this entry: http://www.secrettechnology.com/lack/jasonhack.html

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My concept was to select early poster art and text to create a comic strip with Australian and Tasmanian themes in a modern context, to celebrate the Library Mashup event. The result is a collage from over thirty different Theatre Royal posters in the JWB Murphy collection which is held in the Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office.

The JWB MURPHY COLLECTION

JWB Murphy (1865?-1958?), a New Zealand-born singer, trombone player and stage band conductor, came to Hobart from Melbourne in about 1896 to work for the Mercury. He was soon appointed manager of the Theatre Royal (Australia’s Oldest Theatre) – a position he held for more than forty-five years.

In the early 1980s Murphy’s descendant Bradley Smith rediscovered his great-grandfather’s collection of 364 theatre and cinema posters and 385 theatre programs and presented it to the State Library of Tasmania (now the Tasmanian Archive and Heritage Office). It is one of the richest collections of theatrical posters, especially for early film presentations, held anywhere in Australia.

Most of the posters are for events at the Theatre Royal (though they were printed in Hobart, Melbourne, Sydney, New Zealand and elsewhere). But some relate to other venues in Hobart and elsewhere in Tasmania and to local events.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/31023059@N00/5779019195/in/photostream

Using the Flickr Commons set of Queensland churches the data is plotted to a map and provides a now and then view of the location. This data in generated into an xml document by querying the flickr set using the flickrnet api.

URL of this entry: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/qld/default.aspx

A digital media entry to Library Hack, by Oral historian and film maker John Mannion (Pekina SA).

John selected an image (B69649) from the State Library of SA’s archive collection on Library Hack, and combined it with an oral history recording of a story about Rabbits and Camp Pie, from Gladys Bond in Quorn SA. Gladys is over 100 and the interview was made in 2009. This film was made as part of the Every Dish Tells A Story project, in the Flinders Ranges SA.
www.everydishtellsastory.com.au

URL of your entry:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/digitalsalon/5780318958/

EDGE ELEGY libraryhack by user175394

This piece is based on the Mafeking Waltz midi file from the Hack to the Future workshop, heavily treated in Ableton Live. Makeking Waltz in a digitised score in the Music Queensland collection.
I played the MIDI file back using a standard piano sound, then used a number of processes to create the bass and background ambience. The bass is the piano audio pitched down 4 octaves using an algorythm that treats each beat as the basis for its pitch shifting, which means that the “bassline” moves slowly in an unpredictable fashion. The ambience is the same audio file pitched up 4 octaves to begin with, then gradually sliding down to the original pitch and drowned in reverb. The harp in the foreground is playing back the MIDI file, with the note length modified, and sent through an an automated MIDI arpeggiator, which is also sent into an reverb and a ring modulator, which creates the birdlike effects that fade in and out over the course of the piece.

URL of your entry:: http://soundcloud.com/user175394/edge-elegy-libraryhack

Tim Koch – Heard history by tiimko

Heard history involves the utilisation of historic South Australian photographs in creating an original soundscape combining melodic and rhythmic elements.

Using software that can interpret image data into a sonic form I have constructed a short soundscape that encapsulates the mood and tone of places that have been recorded in photographic form from the past.

URL of your entry:: http://soundcloud.com/tiimko/tim-koch-heard-history

Our submission is an interactive 3D projection image viewer. The system polls pictures from the State Library of Queensland’s database and projects them on three cylinders. A piece of software animates the projection and controls the user interaction. Users can navigate through the picture collection using their mobile phone. They can e.g. navigate through the collection, speed up the animation, select how many pictures are displayed, display text that describes the pictures’ metadata and manipulate the size of the projection on each cylinder.

This system is designed to become a fix installation in a library. It aims to revitalise pictures from the library archive by morphing them with the physical environment in the library, hence making the archive more ambient and accessible to visitors. The prototype illustrates a 3D projection mapping on three cylinders, but the projection could technically be mapped on any physical object or part of the library infrastructure. The mobile phone interface is designed to provide a more engaging interaction with library pictures than on using a desktop computer and browser interface.

Submitted demonstration video: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbil/5781065056/in/pool-1565188@N22/
Full video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5br1TVrdko

submitted by:
John Howland (jwhida@gmail.com) and
Mark Bilandzic (markbilandzic@gmail.com)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/markbil/5781065056/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Version 2 An unexpected encounter on the farm…

• People: Cattle grazing in green pasture, Flynn, John, 1880-1951, State Library of SA. nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-http%3A%2F%2Fnla.gov.au%2Fnla.pic-an…
• Cows: Cattle grazing in green pasture, Flynn, John, 1880-1951, National Library of Australia, nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-http%3A%2F%2Fnla.gov.au%2Fnla.pic-an…
• Grass: State Library of SA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slsa/PRG287_1_2_26.tif
• Hills: State Library of WA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slwa/slwa_b2908298_8.tif
• Sky: State Library of WA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slwa/slwa_b2908393_1.tif
• The UFO was created using different textures from www.cgtextures.com.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessels/5780089082/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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An unexpected encounter on the farm…

• People: Cattle grazing in green pasture, Flynn, John, 1880-1951, State Library of SA. nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-http%3A%2F%2Fnla.gov.au%2Fnla.pic-an…
• Cows: Cattle grazing in green pasture, Flynn, John, 1880-1951, National Library of Australia, nla.gov.au/nla.cs-pa-http%3A%2F%2Fnla.gov.au%2Fnla.pic-an…
• Grass: State Library of SA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slsa/PRG287_1_2_26.tif
• Hills: State Library of WA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slwa/slwa_b2908298_8.tif
• Sky: State Library of WA, enc.slq.qld.gov.au/nsla/slwa/slwa_b2908393_1.tif
• The UFO was created using different textures from www.cgtextures.com.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jessels/5779557431/in/pool-1565188@N22/

This is very much a rush-job, so it’s quite clunky.

I’ve used the Google Earth API to show James Cook’s voyage on the Endeavour in real time.

The Endeavour Journal is also presented with the look-and-feel of a real book that flips through its pages as the voyage progresses.

Other explorer routes can also be added to the map (Torres, Tasman, Dampier, Flinders) as tracks through time, and maps can be overlayed to show what was known geographically at the time of the voyage – this is particularly important in order to appreciate Cook’s voyage into the unknown.

URL of your entry:: http://collection.temporalearth.net/LibraryHack2011/

Australian data application for iPhone.

Data Australia is an iPhone application capable of displaying various datasets in a simple, portable and interactive way. It makes use of datasets published by the various State Libraries of Australia and the data.gov.au initiative.

It features an interactive Google Map which can display data from the following datasets:
* Wikipedia articles about any place in Australia
* pictures from the State Library of Queensland
* pictures from the State Library of South Australia
* location of public libraries in Queensland
* location of public libraries in Victoria
* location of public libraries in Western Australia
* location of public toilets anywhere in the country (from data.gov.au)

Data Australia is built in a flexible way which will allow integrating many more datasets in the future.

By default the application displays places and points of interest surrounding the user. But the map can also be centered anywhere to retrieve data about a specific area.

The user can also select which dataset to display and view the details of any result, for example read a full Wikipedia article or flick through photos from the libraries archives.

The application features a very useful augmented reality view, which overlays a particular place of interest on top of the phone’s camera view, instantly giving the direction of any point of interest.

The application also features a list of all Australian suburbs, organised by state. It makes use of the SuburbanTrends API to display the boundaries of any suburb on a map. Other data from SuburbanTrends, for example socio-economic data will be integrated soon.

More datasets will be integrated in the future, making the application a very useful tool for both people discovering and people living in Australia.

Data Australia is a simple, fast and flexible way of accessing multiple public datasets about Australia, from anywhere, at anytime.

Note: due to the technical inability to submit the application itself, I have put together a site with many screenshots and a video to demonstrate the application at https://sites.google.com/site/dataaustraliaapp/
The application itself will be made public in the near future.

URL of your entry:: https://sites.google.com/site/dataaustraliaapp/

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Looking at the relationship between our man made structures, the natural landscapes we inhabit and the fragile balance between them.

Images Used:

• State Library of NSW “Mr J Prentice and Miss Jean Howat doing acrobatics, Bondi Beach”
• State Library of QLD “Erecting a radio mast for 4RK, Rockhampton, 1931″
• State Library of SA B70937_82 , PRG287_1_2_26

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecontextualvillains/5779596789/

Newserve provides an easy-to-use search interface, interlacing the results on the map and a timeline glider. The ultimate goal of Newserve is to provide a single point of access to all newspaper resources in libraries of Australia – whether it be just catalogue information of the newspapers stored in the libraries of Australia or be the digitized newspaper collections.

Data sets used

At present Newserve is powered by following datasets:

• State Library of NSW‘s newspaper catalogue data.
• Trove digitised newspaper collection.

The catalogue data was available in MARC21 format. We have parsed it’s different fields and extracted the required information, indexed the data and laid it out as a layer on the map with timeline. Trove data is accessed using the experimental trove API, which is developed by Tim Sherratt. in the future, We plan to add the newspaper catalogue data of all the state libraries of Australia as those are become available

Newserve features

Visualisation features:

• Visulaisation on map – mapping all the newspapers of State Library of NSW collection and also Trove digital collection
• Timeline visualisation – Along with map all the newspapers are shown on a timeline glider
• Interactive timeline traversal – Just press the play button to see the the evolution of newspapers in Australia

Search features:

• Search the newspaper collection catalouge of State Library of NSW by title, date and location
• Search Trove digital collection by keyword, title, date and location
• Filter the map markers to see either catalouge data or Trove data or both

You can watch a video on Newserve here.

Some screenshots from Newserve application:

URL of your entry:: http://www.3colors.com.au/newserve/

HIP HOP HACK MIX by Young Billz

We wrote our lyrics during hiphop hack workshop with Candy, and we got the inspiration from the song “songs from the willow”. Andrei prepared for us in hiphop style. We also took inspiration from old lyrics and recorded in our own styles. This song is about memories, peace and coming home.

URL of your entry:: http://soundcloud.com/yfabi/hip-hop-hack-mix

This movie encourages people to ‘travel’ online using library resources. The images and music relate to early forms of travel. The movie is a kind of slideshow, and it uses images from the collections of the State Library of Queensland, the National Archives of the Netherlands, and the Boston Public Library.

The music, ‘Come Josephine in my Flying Machine’, is a digitised cylinder recording from an online collection. The Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project is based at the Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara. Cylinder recordings were the very first commercially available sound recordings. If the music sounds a little scratchy at first, it might be because this year is its hundredth birthday.

URL of your entry:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62042379@N05/5779484763/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Mishmash of several series, mainly Lpic021-1 & 2, NS2960 & PH30.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5780088872/in/photostream

Sydney Historical Mash is a video fly through of a much larger project exploring Google Earth as an Art Medium. The project combines hundreds of historical maps, aerial and archival photographs to create an interactive digital collage.

The images where largely resourced from the NSW State Library collections as well as The Historical Atlas of Sydney.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63475362@N07/5779490391/in/photostream

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This 1920s wedding portrait is modern history, featuring people whose memories are still very alive. Reflected further back is the memory of a medieval plague still enshrined in The Chapel of Bones in Portugal. More recently artist Damien Hurst’s diamond-encrusted skull has preserved another death as a work of art. Death walks amongst the living, still visible and ethereal through photographic work and manipulation, through creative commons and artistic endeavour.

Sources:

• Wedding of Nancy and Clarrie Wieting, Brisbane, ca. 1925 from SLQ Flickr.
• Whiternoise ‘skulls’, from the Chapel of Bones in Portugal. Sourced from creative commons Flickr.
• Gonzo Carles ‘skull’ sourced from creative commons Flickr.
• Secretly Ironic ‘damien hurst’s diamond studded skull’ sourced from creative commons Flickr.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/olamedia/5779865470/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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This photo is a mashup of the “Out driving in an early Linon motor car in Ipswich”, an image from the State Library of Queensland’s out of copyright collection, a Creative Commons photo from Flickr posted by nzhamstar, and some extras done on Illustrator and Photoshop.

Who’s to say this man didn’t have as much pride in his new car back then as people have in their pimped-out cars now?

Picture this old man rollin’…

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63502322@N03/5779953624/sizes/l/in/photostream/

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Children of a young nation, one blindly salutes the Empire, one looks questioningly at the motherland.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecontextualvillains/5779482589/

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A mishmash of NS2960-23/ LPIC021-2-60/ LPIC021-1-54/ AB713/ CON34

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5779440043/in/photostream

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Mishmash of several series, mainly LPIC021 & NS2960

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5774335417/in/photostream

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Mishmash of several series, mainly LPIC021-1 & 2, NS2960 & PH30.

URL of your entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5774872892/in/photostream

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Photos taken from the State Library of Queensland and the State Library of Western Australia. Titles: Interior of a McKeen railmotor car,Ferris wheel at the Ekka. I created a mashup of three photos depicting a ghostly train ride without boundaries.

URL of your entry:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62719492@N08/5779812182/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A mishmash of iconic tasmanian images from murphy posters, goulds book of fish, PH30 & NS Series/ a Tasmaniana Harry Kelly Poster early Hughes map.

URL of your entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5778094933/in/photostream

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A mishmash stretching from the early Hughes Map, 1900s exhibition entries and classic Harry Kelly poster.

URL of your entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5778938027/in/photostream

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Anything goes – a mishmash from the PH30 series, early Hughes Map and Tasmaniana Harry Kelly Poster.

URL of your entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5778096931/in/photostream

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A mishmash of entries from the exhibition album

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/carahowell/5774338273/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Using images from the State Library of South Australia we can see the first early evidence in Adelaide of global warming

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62280847@N05/5779559274/in/pool-1565188@N22/

La Cuna – Advice for Emigrants by rivermusic
This music score ‘La Cuna’ by Luis Amadeo Parés from 1927 (QLD State Library) has was converted to MIDI as part of Hack to the Future project at The Edge. I used only a very small section of the score and repeated the motif with modern sounds to create a dreamy spacious feel. Live saxophone and programmed beats help bring it into the 21st century and make the original score unrecognizable. A reading of an excerpt from ‘Advice to Emigrants’ 1848 by J.C. Byrne (SA State Library) has been mashed in to create something completely new. The use of a vocoder makes it almost alien.
The passage describes what clothing is required of emigrants when coming to Australia.

URL of your entry:: http://soundcloud.com/rivermusic/la-cuna-advice-for-emigrants

Discovering Australia is an interactive site allowing users to investigate the early exploration of Australia. The site uses a combination of images, mapping and an interactive timeline to allow the user to see how and when the explorers found different aspects of Australia.

In particular it focusses on the Journal entries of Lieutenant James Cook in his ship HM Barque Endeavour during 1770.

It uses several data sources to pull together media and geographic information:

• First Fleet maps (State Library of New South Wales)
• Maps of the Southern Hemisphere 16th-18th centuries (State Library of New South Wales)
• Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 (National Library of Australia)
• Digitised maps (State Library of Queensland)
• Styled Google Maps

This site is designed to be a timeline exploration of the discovery of Australia. It was created by Michael Archbold for the Library Hack “Mix, mash & win” competition. More data sources from the earlier explorers will be assembled over the following weeks and the data will available to the public.

URL of your entry:: http://discoveringaustralia.blackglove.com.au/

Soldiers of the willow meet the 16th Battalion by rivermusic
This music score By Alberto Zelman- ‘Soldiers of the willow’ (from QLD State Library) was converted to MIDI as part of Hack to the Future project at The Edge. I revamped it in Ableton Live, using orchestral strings and crunchy piano mashed with an urban beat and ultra modern bass sounds for juxtaposition. I then added a reading of a short poem and names of the 16th battalion from the 1915 ‘War diary of Arthur Oxer’ (from the SA State library)

URL of your entry:: http://soundcloud.com/rivermusic/soldiers-of-the-willow-meet

Cartographer is an iPhone appliciation which uses the NSW State Library Southern Hemisphere Maps Collection (http://data.gov.au/dataset/maps-of-the-southern-hemisphere-16th-18th-centuries/).

The application presents the Southern Hemisphere Map Collection in an easy to use free appliction for IOS devices.

I’ve got some more ideas for enhancements to this application to allow users to purchase printed copies of the map documents. I would be happy to work with the library to integrate with any existing system they may have which would allow this. Please contact me if this is of interest to the library.

I have another iPhone called ‘Sheet Music’ application awaiting approval from Apple. This application uses the National Library of Australia’s Sheet Music Collection (http://data.gov.au/dataset/national-library-of-australia-sheet-music-collection/). The application allows users to browse and view the collection of songs.

Similarly to the Cartographer application I would love to work with the Library to provide some extra features such as allowing the user to purchase a hard copy of the document and or linking audio version where possible.

I hope you like my entries and ideas for use of the data sources.

URL of this entry: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/cartographer/id439200578?mt=8&ls=1

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Little did Alfie know that 70 – 80 Years later pop culture would take his backwards sitting chair and put it in all types of movies and television shows.

Photo 1: Potrait of Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin 1900 – 1909

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardey/5778624577/

Geohunt is a game designed for you to discover local curios via your mobile phone.

It’s easy to play, just make sure you have your GPS turned on, and follow the map to the geographical points shown. When you get close enough, the hidden information will be revealed!

There is information from all over Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia and Western Australia. Soooo… hop on your bike, in your car or walk around and get discovering. We have used any dataset from the data.gov.au site that has geo spatial data :)

URL of this entry: http://www.wiresphere.com/geohunt/login.php

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The birth of stage diving and moshing in Australia

• Photo 1: Taking the plunge at the Valley Baths, Brisbane, ca.1930-1940
• Photo 2: Dirigible over tamarama, Hall & Co. Home and Away -34701

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gardey/5775416779/

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Mashup of images from Picture Queensland (photographs, graphics and illustrations) and my own photographs. Image created using Paint.

State Library of Queensland images used:

• People strolling in New Farm Park, Brisbane, 1953 neg 203629
• Cribb and Foote family photograph set in ornately decorated page image 187198
• Heavily embellished page from a Cribb and Foote family album, featuring a portrait of a young woman image 187197
• OM65-34/2: Illuminated address, 28 August 1896 – images OM65-34-2v000r002 and OM65-34-2v001r000; part of collection OM64-34: Adolphus M Hertzberg Papers

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nsellisinna/5778546289/in/photostream/

Convictbook provides a way for people to connect with individual convicts and other people who are interested in those convicts.

The site displays a profile page for each of the convicts from the Convict Transportation Register from SLQ, which describes more than 123, 000 of the estimated 164, 000 convicts who were transported to Australia by the British government throughout the 18th and 19th centuries. Images from Picture Australia and links to records from Trove’s People and Organisations data set are also displayed.

People viewing the convict profiles are invited to share the stories behind the data, contribute additional information, or discuss individual convicts with other people.

The site also provides a number of visualisations of the convict data to get people thinking about the data in different ways.

We hope that convictbook will become a hub for people to communicate with each other about individual convicts, for example, to trace common convict ancestors.

URL of your entry:: http://convictbook.appspot.com/

This web app investigates the idea that rich sources of metadata contain relationships and connections that are not always realised or utilised. The date, location, tag and description metadata attached to pictures in the Picture Queensland data set were used to create ‘connections’ between pictures, which helps to put the pictures in context and go on a ‘journey’ from picture to picture.

Technical:
A very simple web app that offers access to heavily processed data obtained from the Picture Queensland data set. Using the metadata in xml format, two tables were produced: one table containing cleaned up metadata, and one containing ‘connections’ between pictures. The processing involved in creating these tables was considerable. There are quite a few avenues for expansion from this proof of concept.

URL of this entry: http://libraryhack.anotherbyte.net/

picturesQ is a web application that searches the State Library of Queensland Creative Commons image database for images related to recent news items. News items are drawn from ABC news feeds about Queensland (both its cities and regional areas), Australia and the world. Everytime you refresh the browser, the page randomly picks news feeds, then searches the image database based on keywords found in those feeds. Hovering over an image will show the title of the picture. Hovering over the “i” box will show the keywords that were taken from the news feeds and used in the image database search. Clicking on the main image will open another browser window showing the State Library of Queensland web page for that picture.

Examples:

Development:

The site was created using a combination of Yahoo Pipes, Google Fusion Tables and JQuery. The JQuery getJSON method was used to avoid cross-site scripting errors. To convert the XML news feeds into JSON, the Google Feeds API was used. The Picture Queensland dataset was uploaded to a publically available Google fusion table. The queries to this table are converted from CSV into JSON by porting them through Yahoo Pipes.

URL of this entry: http://www25.brinkster.com/jkhey/libraryhack/picturesq/

All rights reserved by Jaimie M. H. www.photojho.blogspot.com

I went for a road trip from Sydney to Melbourne just this Easter and visited Brighton Beach for the first time. I was delighted to see that the holidaying spirit of Australians is as alive today as it was half a century ago. We work, play, and love.

URL of your entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimieh/5775473371/in/pool-1565188@N22/

All rights reserved by Jaimie M. H. www.photojho.blogspot.com

Alfred Deakin was a well liked and colourful character, such that he was nicknamed “Affable Alfred”. It is the charisma of early Australian Prime Ministers such as Alfred Deakin who nurtured the energy of this country.

Original Images:
State Library of QLD, ‘Interior of a McKeen railmotor car’, undated, #203967
National Library of Australia, ‘Portrait of Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin [picture]‘, 1900 – 1909, #nla.pic-an22948286

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimieh/5775637781/in/pool-1565188@N22/

All rights reserved by Jaimie M. H. www.photojho.blogspot.com

Almost 10 years in the making, the Sydney Harbour Bridge continues to draw thousands of admirers every year from far and wide to bask in its architectural magnificence.

Original Images:
State Library of NSW, ‘Dirigible over Tamarama’, 1908, #Home and Away – 34701

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaimieh/5776354514/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775085065/in/photostream

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• Photo 1: “Brighton Air Raid Precautions practice”, Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Image sourced from State Library of Victoria Collection.
• Photo 2: “The Komodo Dragon” by Rachdian. Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence.
• Photo 3: “Jumping for joy in Bulimba” No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 4: “Drain” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by D. Dolan.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22877017@N00/5776476134/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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• Photo 1: “Military gun salute at the crematorium, Brisbane”, No known copyright restrictions. Photo by George Jackson. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 2: “Soldiers drill in their gas masks during World War I”, No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 3: “Scaling a wall on VP Day in Brisbane, 1945”, No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 4: “Deep sea diver” Used with permission from D. Dolan.
• Photo 5: “American Lockheed P-38 Lightning fighter plane flying along the coast of Queensland, ca. 1943”, No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22877017@N00/5776464576/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site.Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775626210/in/photostream

A mix of PhotoMash creations made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

Code was supplied from Jason Nelson, digital poet and is hosted on his website – www.secrettechnology.com

URL of this entry: http://www.secrettechnology.com/claire/ClareFisherLibraryHack2.html

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775084593/in/photostream/

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I just wanted to have fun with this entry :) I was browsing the Queensland Library images and this one really struck me, she looks a lot like a classy pinup!
Effects were all added with photoshop auto tools and filters :)

Photo used: Mavis Ritchie, dancer at the Cremorne Theatre, Brisbane, 1942 (image number: 43398)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23472620@N04/5775568285/in/photostream

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775084819/in/photostream/

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• Photo 1: “Bee on the sand” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by self.
• Photo 2: “Girl on the beach” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by D. Dolan.
• Photo 3: “Discus thrower C. O’Neill competing in an athletic carnival at Lang Park, Brisbane” No known copyright restrictions. Photo by George Jackson. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 4: “Cherry Walker modelling swimsuits at Surfers Paradise, 1951” No known copyright restrictions. Photo by Harry Poulson. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 5: “At Last!” “Dina!” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by Edna Walling. Image sourced from State Library of Victoria Collection.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22877017@N00/5775922407/in/pool-1565188@N22/

Whether you are young or old, rich or poor, and regardless of your background, the inevitable question asked by every Australian at least once in their lifetime is “Where do I go to find information about all the libraries in Australia?”.

The Ultimate Australian Library WIKI is the ultimate answer to that quest, and we have designed it so that it would be helpful for everyone who is seeking to find the most informative and collaborative Australian Library Locator available!

Not only does Australia Library WIKI the “go-to” directory for Australian libraries, it is also a WIKI. This means that anyone can add a new library information to our database, or even modify an existing entry to fill in the missing information.

This makes UALW a powerful tool, because we are now “crowd-sourcing” all the information we can find out there, to collectively enhance the quality and the quantity of information we have. We truly believe it would be a must-have tool, if you ever want to find out about any library in Australia.

The datasets that we have utilised were

• List of Victorian libraries
• List of NSW libraries (involved a LOT of pre-processing of data)
• List of Queensland libraries
• List of WA libraries

We are even now, actively collecting library information of SA, NT and Tasmania and our goal is to have complete listing of libraries very soon!

URL of this entry: http://libwiki.heroku.com

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• Photo 1 – Canecutters at Ayr, ca. 1907 – No Known Copyright Restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 2 – Mr & Mrs Trackson in the steam Locomobile – No Known Copyright Restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 3 – Country Road – New South Wales – Self taken – D.Dolan

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63491221@N03/5775863739/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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• Photo 1: “American sailors visiting Brisbane, Queensland”, No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 2: “Picture postcard of Mount Tamborine, Queensland, ca. 1891”, No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 3: “Robertsons Point Lighthouse”, Made available under CC Attribution- 2.0 generic licence. Image sourced from State Records NSW.
• Photo 4:”On the water taxi to Straddie” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by D. Dolan.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22877017@N00/5776469368/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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• Photo 1: “E. M. Land” No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 2: “Robert J. Gray, Under Colonial Secretary, 1889” No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 3: “Major William Oswald Hodgkinson” No known copyright restrictions. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland.
• Photo 4: “Cow” Made available under CC Attribution-2.0 generic licence. Photo by entrant.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/22877017@N00/5776473904/in/pool-1565188@N22/

Now and Then is an application for aligning and overlaying historical images with modern equivalents. Each combination of an old and new image is called a “fusion”, and visitors are encouraged to add their own contributions to the fusion gallery by aligning a historical photo with one of their own, shared via flickr.com.

While Now and Then is in a Beta release period, the historical image collection includes only “Photographs of Sydney before 1885″ from the State Library of NSW. Other collections will hopefully be added at a later date.

URL of this entry: http://nowandthen.mindsocket.com.au/

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775625160/in/photostream/

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775624920/in/photostream/

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A PhotoMash creation made using photos from the SLQ Flickr site. Text is from catalogue search terms provided at the LibraryHack workshop at North Lakes Library on 7 May 2011.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5775624638/in/photostream/

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This Libraryhack entry is inspired by growing up in an expanding sprawling city. Parks and free space to ride a bike or just get up to mischief have been replaced by apartment blocks and small sterilised playgrounds.

Image sourced from The State Library of New South Wales (A089188u)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52643282@N00/5778560746/in/photostream

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Young Master Glaskin (pictured to the left) and Oswald Blows (on the right) were photographed between 1905 and 1915. Their images were captured in the State Library of Western Australia digital photographic collection (b2870901, b2874898). In the last century, W.A. has changed a great deal. The background photo was taken at Sculpture by the Sea in Cottesloe in 2008.

It is interesting to consider what they would make of the present day if they were transported forward in time. How they would interpret social media, IVF and eBooks. This recontexturalisation asks viewers to put themselves in the shoes of these young men and think about what it would be like for them to be plunged into modern life.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63507339@N06/5775198083/in/photostream/

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Back in 1907 when her photograph was taken, Miss Whitman was probably preparing herself for married life. If she had been a young woman in this century she would likely be studying at University. This photograph imagines her as a history student at the University of Western Australia. Instead of looking pensive about her marriage prospects, she’s probably stressing about upcoming exams.

The photo of Miss Whitman was taken from the State Library of Western Australia digital photographic collection (b2876888). It was remixed with a contemporary photograph of UWA taken by the submitter.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63507339@N06/5775175743/in/photostream

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Mr Moyle looks a bit intimidated. If he had been dropped from a photographic studio in 1915 to the State Library of Western Australia in 2011, he’d probably be feeling it too! The Library aims to capture the Western Australian story and Mr Moyle’s portrait is one of millions of items held in the collection.

This image mixes a portrait of Mr Moyle from the State Library of Western Australia digital photographic collection (b2876865_2) with a photograph of the ground floor of the State Library that holds his image. The latter photo was taken by the submitter who works at SLWA and helps clients find old photographs on a regular basis.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63507339@N06/5775761282/in/photostream

Conviz is a web app that allows web based access and visualisation of the British Convict Transportation Registry. It features:

Convict Information
One of the basic functions of Conviz is it makes the registry information available online in a user friendly format via the following features:

• View the complete registry as paginated tables; this feature also includes the ability to sort by any field e.g. date of departure or destination.
• Search for convicts by name (first, last or both)
• View all available information about a convict
• Conviz has derived some additional information about each convict (e.g. county of conviction), this is displayed along side the convict’s records
• Data cleansing (merging similar but slightly different fields), e.g. Boat names and destinations.

Convict Filter
The registry contains a lot of entries (+123,000), Conviz allows the registry to be filtered into smaller subsets of related convicts. Convicts can be filtered by:

• Boat
• Destination
• Departure year
• Conviction county
• Sentence
• First or last name

Visualisations
Visualisations (graphs, charts & maps) where the main reason for building Conviz and the site currently includes the following visualisations:

• Bar chart of boats that transported the most convicts
• Bubble chart of the top 100 boats
• Geo intensity map of convict destinations
• Donut graph of convict destinations and destination states
• Stacked area graph of conviction year and destination state
• Column chart of departure month
• Pie chart of departure decade
• Bar chart of top conviction counties
• Google map with pins for all conviction counties
• Pie chart of sentence severities
• Column chart of conviction decade and sentence severity
• Bar chart of most popular first names
• Bar chart of most popular last names

URL of your entry:: http://www.conviz.info

This digital media mashup follows the story of Aboriginal carved trees from their origin, through their destruction and into their resurrection as a form of visual art.

Data set used: State Library of NSW’s Carved Trees images from the Clifton Cappie Towle collection.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63475815@N02/5774623999/

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Foreign view on Australia’s way of life.

A mashup consisting of two images:

• “‘Yvonne’ an inquisitive emu in north Queensland, 1985″
  From the State Library of Queensland, Image No. 508-20-36
• “Horseracing at a country racetrack, Nambour, Sunshine Coast”
  From the State Library of Queensland, Image No. 7708-0001-0009

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443461@N03/5764518173/in/pool-1565188@N22/

Using the Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour, 1768-1771 from the NLA, Google Maps, GoogleMaps.Subgurim.NET and Cloud Zoom the data from NLA is plotted to a Google Map. Each icon is then clickable, presenting the manuscript page in a zoomable format along with the transcripts from the journal

URL of this entry: http://www.slsa.sa.gov.au/endeavour/default.aspx

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We identified the location of the original photo, captured a current image at the same location and merged the images to produce the ghostly effect.

The original image is from the State Library of Queensland. Anzac Day ceremony in Brisbane, 1936. Negative number: 127809

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63461124@N03/5774891560/

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Sunset over Adelaide is a photo mashup using an image of Adelaide from the State Library of South Australia. The silhouette in the foreground is an image I have been working on for a screen print. The aged look of the photograph matched the vintage car in my image thus the inspiration for this mashup.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52643282@N00/5774971482/in/photostream

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We identified the location of the original photo, captured a current image of the same location and merged the images to produce the ghostly effect.

The original image is from the State Library of Qld. View along Hutton Lane from Adelaide Street to Ann Street, Brisbane, 1931. Negative number: 201638

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63461124@N03/5774891816/

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We identified the location of the original photo, captured a current image of the same location and merged the images to produce the ghostly effect.

The original image is from the State Library of Qld Wikimedia files.

URL of your entry:: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63461124@N03/5774892174/

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We identified the location of the original photo, captured a current image of the same location and merged the images to produce the ghostly effect.

The original image is from the State Library of Qld Wikimedia Commons files.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63461124@N03/5774353629/

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We identified the location of the original photo, captured a current image of the same location and merged the images to produce the ghostly effect.

The original image is from the State Library of Queensland: Members of the Brisbane Motorcycle Fishing Club, Adelaide Street, Brisbane, 1938 Negative number: 60689

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63461124@N03/5774538901/

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Bestest friends hanging out at Cary Bay zoo on 6th September 1954.

The process of Anthropomorphism is a well-known phenomena in which we project humanistic traits onto other living creatures, Hirschman states, ‘‘Anthropomorphism refers to the apparently universal human tendency to ascribe human characteristics onto non-human entities. Most commonly they are associated with other living creatures and in particular companion animals. Dogs are especially are imbued by their owners with human qualities.’’ (1994, pp.617)

Photo sourced from State Library NSW: “Cary Bay zoo” (Original item no. NCY54/359)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757440591/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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I searched for photos from my home town of Gladstone and came across a collage image containing 4 photos. In the original image, one of the photos was of Fisheries and Cold Stores which I opted to switch out for a shot of Goondoon Street (It looked so quaint back then!) and I switched out the image of the Cotton Ginnery for an image of Barney Point Beach as I could not find information on the exact location of the Cotton Ginnery (But I did find out that it was basically only open for about 2 years, after which is was closed and then only used if there was surplus cotton from elsewhere! – in any case, it is not here any longer and hasn’t been here for a while)

We drove around and took the comparison shots this morning :) It was impossible to get a better comparison shot for Barney Point Beach as there are huge trees along there now, so I had to get up closer.

The Meat Works was knocked down and Queensland Alumina Limited was built on the area, providing a lot of jobs in the area. They recently did up a beautiful lookout where you can get some nice views of QAL (as nice as industry can be)

Images used:

• Barney Point Beach, Gladstone, 1937-1938 (Image number: APE-078-0001-0029)
• Collage of views in the Gladstone district, 1937-1938 (Image number: APE-078-0001-0026)
• Gondoon Street, Gladstone (Image number: 194867)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23472620@N04/5774463792/in/photostream

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An interesting look at the commercial heart of Stanthorpe at this time.
The images are by William Boag and can be found on the State Library of Queensland’s Flickr page. A high resolution version is also available. It may take a few seconds to download

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipiwillow/5768160990/in/pool-libraryhack/#/photos/pipiwillow/5768160990/in/pool-1565188@N22/

The South Australian Library’s SA Memory data presented:

• as a time line
• on a Google Map
• grouped by format and region
• fully searchable

Each item in the collection is displayed with the original data and a link back to the relevant SA Memory web page, along with the following additional information:

• a Google map with pointers to other items in the near vicinity
• a tag cloud of links to relevant Wikipedia articles
• a link to the Google search results for that item
• images of the area drawn from Flickr’s Creative Commons collection

URL of this entry: http://learnonline.cc/libraryhack/index.php

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Lieutenant G. W. Butterworth was nervous, but ready.

Portrait of Lieutenant G. W. Butterworth, New Guinea Police. 4th Queensland contingent. Image sourced from State Library of Queensland, Picture QLD.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757437777/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Haymarket Theater commissionaire holds back the crowds in 1927 for two young brothers getting their picture taken in Western Australia.

In this mash up I’ve juxtaposed my hand drawn character illustrations using Photoshop.

Image sourced from Library of NSW: Original item no. DG ON4/6307

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757978720/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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I repaired and colourised this image of Soldier Jack Mathewson (Image number 77889), trying to make it as realistic looking as I could.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/23472620@N04/5770096620/in/photostream

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For thousands of years humans have developed ways to take our three dimensional world and project it onto the two dimensional context of a map. Mapping and cartography have enabled us to better make sense of where we are in the world and in understanding our geographic positioning in relation to everything else on the planet.

“The parallels and meridians form a grid system on the model of the Earth. The grid serves as a reference system for locating points on the surface of the Earth. In the map projection transformation process, this grid system is transferred to the map”. (Pearson, 1990, p.20)

Photo sourced from SLQ:

• Redcliffe from the air, 1958 (Image number: APE-034-0001-0009)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5763838609/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A mash up of olden day street with new car diving down street.

• Albert Street, Brisbane, ca. 1883
• Bourbong Street, Bundaberg, ca. 1909

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/63457144@N06/5771807696/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified eggman, 1870-1880. Picture QLD – State Library  of Queensland

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5763832635/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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‘In the middle of the garden, on a patch of smooth green turf, stands the most magnificent Poinciana tree I ever saw, about sixty feet high, with huge spreading boughs sweeping right down to the ground.’ (description of the Rawson’s Poinciana tree)

In this Library Hack entry I have juxtaposed my digital geometric illustration onto the image of the man standing in front of his massive Poinciana. Not only do I love the general composition and aesthetic of the original photo with the lurid fading of colour, I find it captures a timeless human narrative; human’s relative size and scale with the rest of nature.

I’ve used the 2D geometric forms to emphasize this, and illustrate how over time we have developed ways, such as can be seen in cartography, to project and impose man made systems of geometry onto the natural world in an attempt to make it something we can measure and understand, regardless of it following a different set of rules to our own.

Image sourced from SLQ Picture QLD:

“Poinciana Regia on the Rawson property outside Mackay” Photographer: Edmund Rawson, 1845-1911

URL of this entry:  http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5764386480/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A digital collage / photo mash exploring geometric abstraction and its aesthetic relation to aerial and satellite photography. for hundreds of years cartography has projected euclidean geometry onto the world in an attempt put into a uniform and measurable scale. The idea of taking three dimensional space and putting it into a flat two dimensional map perspective is in itself an abstract process.

Photos used in this work were sourced from SLQ:

• Hays Inlet near Redcliffe, 1958 (Image number: APE-034-0001-0007)
• Redcliffe from the air, 1958 (Image number: APE-034-0001-0009)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5764384858/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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In this Digital Collage / Photo Mash I have abstracted the composition of the original photo in a way which captures the aesthetic of a nuclear explosion, a force which puts out incomprehensible amounts of energy

Image source: Sate Library NSW. “Peggy Bacon in mid-air backflip, Bondi Beach” Home and Away – 14039 Original item no. NCY36/167

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757442003/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A digital media mash-up made using an architectural illustration plan of a church in Port Arthur, Tasman Peninsula 1836. (PWD266-1-1816) State Library of Tasmania. Illustrated characters and background were made in adobe illustrator.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757977346/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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It’s important for Cricketers to have their head in the right place before stepping up to bat for their country.

Photo sourced from SLQ Picture Queensland:Autographed photograph of the English batsmen, Jack Hobbs and Herbert Sutcliffe, Brisbane, 1928.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757440793/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Best friends hanging out 3 Nov 1934.

Domesticated animals have been apart of everyday life for thousands of years where by nowadays pet dogs are just as much a part of suburbia as the mowing of the lawn, and the white picket fences. Within the article ‘Pets, Families, and the life course’, Bulcroft emphasizes the strange contradictions evident in owing a pet dog, and of our inherent persistence in making them apart of our family, ‘‘In short pets are an economic paradox – particularly when contrasted with human welfare needs. It is precisely this paradox that raises interesting sociological questions about the role of pets in the modern household.’’ (1988, pp 554)

The childlike features we see within our pets are something humans seem to have always had a fascination with. Hirschman states, ‘‘Among the neotenous traits given to dogs through 12, 000 years of selective breeding are foreshortened snouts, large brown eyes, hanging ears, skin folds and miniature size – all of which to give it a doll or child like appearance.’’ (1994, pp.617) The term neotenous refers to the way in which selective breeding in dogs has created these juvenile characteristics that certain breeds maintain into adulthood. This effect creates a need for human owners to want to nurture their pet dog as they would a small child.

The process of Anthropomorphism is a well-known phenomena in which we project humanistic traits onto other living creatures, Hirschman states, ‘‘Anthropomorphism refers to the apparently universal human tendency to ascribe human characteristics onto non-human entities. Most commonly they are associated with other living creatures and in particular companion animals. Dogs are especially are imbued by their owners with human qualities.’’ (1994, pp.617)

Photo sourced from State Libarary NSW:

“Margaret Shaffhauser with bull terrier dog at the Canine Association Show” (Original item no. DG ON4/1031)

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5757983156/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Inspired by google street view this is an interesting look at some of the earliest dwellings to be photographed in Queensland at this time. The images are by William Boag and can be found on the State Library of Queensland’s flickr page.

You can also see a high resolution version. It may take a few seconds to download.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pipiwillow/5768166428/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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Created during the PhotoMash workshop at North lakes Library with Ili from The Edge on Sat 28 May 2011. Using photos from the Flickr SLQ commons – main picture is “Sketch of St. Mary’s Roman Catholic Church under construction, Warwick, ca. 1925”.

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/clarevf/5766834832/in/photostream

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This mash-up documents when the infamous giant mutton chop brothers attacked the town of Inisfail back in 1906. An intense time for all that were in the town at the time….I mashed together a few different images from picture QLD in photoshop, adding text and lazer beams / smoke-rubble. (image of a flattened Inisfail is actually from the cyclone that hit in 1906)

Images from Picture QLD used:

• Head and shoulders portrait of an unidentified man, 1870-1880
• Patrick McCallum
• Ruins of the Roman Catholic Church in Innisfail after the 1906 cyclone

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5688925967/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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This Libraryhack mash-up was created using three separate images of people in mid flight juxtaposed into a space context to simulate them floating through space.

Images used are from the Picture QLD archive, NSW State Library:

• Diving at the Valley Baths, Brisbane, Queensland, 1938 (-27.454132, 153.036729)
• Peggy Bacon in mid-air backflip, Bondi Beach (NCY36/167)
• Footballer, Bob Gehrke, dive passing from dummy half, Redcliffe, Queensland, (-24.13,145.65 )

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/whandley/5689903856/in/pool-1565188@N22/

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A glimpse of the future reflected on a street in Australia in the 1920′s.
“Reflection of Time”, by Andrew Young is a mashup of images containing:

“Street scene including tram with destination “Brisbane Street”"
Image H81.292/134 sourced from the Victoria State Library.
And artist’s own images “City Night Scape”, “Tilt Train” and “Motobike”

URL of this entry: http://www.flickr.com/photos/62443461@N03/5764477205/in/pool-1565188@N22/

During April and May, a fictional Captain James Cook posted material on Twitter from the Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour (available at http://data.gov.au/2501). The journal documents Cook’s three year voyage sailing south in search of the fabled “Great Southern Continent”. His words made for compelling reading:

• Saw some birds nearly as big as Albatrosses they were all black with yellow beaks.
• Mark’d out the ground we intended to occupy / Natives had collected together about us.
• Without delay resolved to pitch upon some spot / for observing the Transit of Venus.
• I then gave the Ship a yaw and fire’d a four pounder / this sent them quite off.

But also, the mundanity of sailing long distances:

• Moderate breezes and clear weather these 24 hours.

A Python program was written to do this. While the dataset contained Cook’s words as digital text, the conversion was littered with errors and required further processing. Python’s Natural Language Toolkit was used to identify readable sentences that would fit within Twitter’s 140 character limit. One tweet was sent per day and each contained a sentence, the date it was written, and a link to the original journal page.

@CaptnJamesCook gained a reasonable number of followers and many of the messages were retweeted.

URL of your entry:: http://www.twitter.com/CaptnJamesCook

Talking Maps combines online library resources to tell historical stories. Material such as photographs and audio recordings were woven into stories, then superimposed onto maps from eras past. Four stories are available:

• A walking tour of West End, Brisbane
• The Journey of the H.M.S. Endeavour
• Sights and Sounds of the Brisbane 2011 flood
• Real Estate sales in the early 1900′s

Different datasources were used to assemble each story and the bibliography tab contains the definitive list. As a general indication, the following libraryhack datasets were used:

• Journal of the H.M.S. Endeavour (data.gov.au/2501)
• Brisbane Real Estate Maps (data.gov.au/2179)
• Picture Queensland Photo Collection (data.gov.au/1863)
• Sydney Maps, 1917 (data.gov.au/1873)

These were mixed with materials from other online sources, including:

• Suburb Boundaries from Suburban Trends
• Flood ephemera from PANDORA (National Library of Australia)
• Flood Aerial Photography from NearMap.com
• Tweets from Twitter
• Videos from Vimeo

Talking Maps uses advanced features not yet available in every browser and works best in Firefox 4.

URL of this entry: http://www.talkingmaps.com.au/

Download the KMZ file from the link below and if you have Google Earth installed, when you open the file GE will fire up and show these maps in “Temporary Places”.

There are 165 maps from the SLQ estate map collection overlaid on the streets they cover where this could easily be worked out (138 of them are placed).

The KMZ XML was generated from the estate map XML at data.gov using XSL and the refined by hand and then processed with further XSL to create different views or facets to allow you to browse the maps.

Firstly a bunch of KML was produced by a simple XSL style sheet and loaded into Google Earth. Maps were moved rotated, resized and placed over the streets and the resulting KML exported. Another pass over the data.gov set with a fancier XSL style sheet created folders sorting the maps by location/suburb, date, colour etc and copied in the updated locations from the first hand polished data set. This entry was created by Neal Fitzgerald.

URL of your entry:: https://sites.google.com/site/nealslibraryhack/home/download

My entry is about the history of the Burnie Library now known as the Burnie LINC. I got a very old photo off the Tasmanian State Library Web Site http://catalogue.statelibrary.tas.gov.au/item/?id=PH30-1-6305 and some photos out of 2 collections (The Tattersall Collection and the Winter Collection) at the Burnie Library plus a photo taken today put them together in a mashup using Photoshop Elements, then I put them into a video using Photoshop Premiere and added some music and a narration about the history the the Burnie Library.

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Strong bridges are necessary in Brisbane, a city sited on a wild river, as Kevin Rudd said. They have been regularly damaged and washed away during big floods. The guy with the fig leaf was in Steele Rudd’s magazine (a relation of our former PM?).

From SLQ Picture Queensland “Cartoon depicting ‘Sandow’ from Steele Rudd’s magazine, July 1906″ hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/102259 mashed with “Brisbane’s Story Bridge, 1940″ hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/77417

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• Portrait of A.B. Paterson, nla.pic-an22199070, National Library of Australia

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• Portrait of Edmund Barton and Alfred Deakin,
  nla.pic-an22948286,National Library of Australia
• West Australians complete the union by voting yes,  nla.pic-vn3302372, National Library of Australia

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Interior of a McKeen railmotor car, State Library of QLD Image No. 209367
Diving at the Valley Baths, Brisbane, Queensland, 1938, State Library of QLD Image No. 204200

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An unlikely encounter

• James Trackson shooting tigers, http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/126045 State Library of QLD
• Dulcie Deamer in leopardskin costume, 1923 / Swiss Studios, State Library of NSW

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• Bourke & Fitzroy Streets corner grocery store. Hood, Sam, Home and Away – 4530 State Library of NSW.
• Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962, Home and Away – 36512, Ice cased [i.e. moulting] Adelie penguins after a blizzard at Cape Denison, State Library of NSW

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• Sir Douglas Mawson, Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962. nla.pic-an10932811-47. National Library of Australia
• Blizzard, the pup, Home and Away – 36174, Hurley, Frank, 1885-1962, , State Library of NSW

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Child migrants hold up a flag for a land far away

Children with Flag, State Library of SA
Outback scene, State Library of SA

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As one trawls through hundreds of photos you sometimes come across one or two that spark a story or narrative. You begin to wonder and imagine what might have been.

Images used:

• Louise Carbasse ca. 1913 / Rudolph Buchner,
  P1 / 304, State Library of NSW
• Indooroopilly Bridge at night, http://hdl.handle.net/10462/deriv/120960 State Library of QLD

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Dan from dejanseo.com.au is a big S.F. fan and this is his mix of a particle accelerator and interior of an old tram.

The photo used is: Interior of a McKeen railmotor car from the State Library of Queensland. Image number: 203967

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Dan from dejanseo.com.au is a big S.F. fan and this is his mix of a guy jumping in the pool and the international space station scene.

The image used was Diving at the Valley Baths, Brisbane, Queensland, 1938 from the State Library of Queensland. Negative number: 204200

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A Small World Panorama of Arthurs Circus, Battery Point Tasmania using 4 photographs from the Tasmanian Library:

Panoramic view of most of houses in Arthurs Circus. (Photograph)

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Image created from the State Library of QLD ‘Picture QLD’ expired copyright database

• Ocean (ship) Record no. 134642
• An old offender : [suffragette movement in Queensland] Record no. 194603
• Interior view of the Wintergarden Theatre, Record no. 149039

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Images created from the State Library of QLD ‘Picture QLD’ expired copyright database

• Paradise Caves, Noosa Heads (Record no. 432374)
• Dunk Island (Record no. 131587)
• Looking through a cave opening to the sea, Moreton Island (Record no. 66003
• What We Want : [suffragette movement in Queensland](Record no. 193679)
• Girl sitting on large sea turtle at Keppel Bay (Record no. 49012)

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Some Libraryhack photos have been added to the PhotoShare 3D network. If you’re an iPhone / iPad user in or around Queensland, you’ll be able to see old geo-tagged photos around you. Enjoy the good old days!

*Currently PhotoShare 3D Premier version costs $0.99. Please contact me (you have my email) for a redeem code to download it for free.

Data Set: Picture Queensland: http://data.gov.au/dataset/picture-queensland/

Description (From App Store Description): Capture and share photo with your friends. In 3D.

This fascinating photo sharing app presents all the photos you may be interested around you in a fully animated UI, which is both splendid and convenient. You can also use a map view to check where and when these photos were captured. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are also supported so that you can easily share all the things with your friends. Best of all, once they have this app installed, they can view the photos in the build-in 3D Photo Frame.

*Our database contains various out of copyright photos from the photograph collection of the State Library of Queensland, Australia, released under the CC BY 3.0 license. Please visit http://data.gov.au/dataset/picture-queensland/ for details.

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Soul Solutions has taken the State Library of Queensland’s collection of digitised estate maps, advertising new housing estates in Queensland from the early to mid 20th Century. 165 of these have been digitised in the collection that can be found here: http://data.gov.au/dataset/real-estate-maps/

The maps are predominantly from Brisbane but also cover some regional areas of Queensland such as the Gold and Sunshine Coasts.

We have chosen to visualise these using an enhanced version of the Microsoft PivotViewer control that allows us to presents 100’s of things at once and visualise them in a way that can add value by allowing multiple ways to filter and sort the collection and view details and metadata while showing the estate map image in a zoomable format.

Watch a short video of the application in use:

The application can be viewed here: http://rem.soulsolutions.com.au/

* Note – Requires Microsoft Silverlight

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The State of Queensland’s most significant asset is its people. Here I’ve created Queensland made entirely of images of its people from the State Libraries digital collection.
View the full resolution version here:
http://www.soulsolutions.com.au/mosaic/QLDLibrary/

10 Gigapixel (10,000,000,000 pixels) mosaic of the State of Queensland made from 52,102 images from the State Library of Queensland’s out of copyright photographs from their photograph collection “People and places from across Queensland across time”. Data source is here: http://data.gov.au/dataset/picture-queensland/

The image for the mosaic is NASA’s Blue Marble Imagery cropped to the political boundary of Queensland. The mosaic was created using AndreaMosaic’s 64bit professional version, Photoshop CS5 and DeepZoom tools. It was processed on a Dell dual 6 core Xeon X5680 T5500 Workstation with 24GB Ram. It took just under 7 days to compile the images, mosaic, process, tile and upload to the website. The energy used to power the hardware was offset by a 6KW/h Solar System and the Queensland Sun.

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Arrival of First Fleet at Sydney Cove to the Sesquecentenary Celebrations in front of Sydney Town Hall. Mashup by Marghanita da Cruz. Created with GIMP, May 2011

There are 2551 x 100 and 5101×200 pixels versions available at ramin.com.au/travel/sydney-1788-1938.shtml

There is also a short version available at http://www.flickr.com/photos/63080602@N02/5741586754/in/photostream

Images and Metadata
State Library of New South Wales
First Fleet Collection
Photographs of Sydney before 1885
Photographs of NSW life pre 1955

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