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GLAM innovation and historical responsibility: A keynote on digital heritage

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A keynote presentation delivered at the GLAM Labs Futures conference (Edinburgh, June 2026) reflecting on the speaker's early work with digitised newspaper data from the National Library of Australia's Trove service. The talk explores the intersection of digital innovation in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) with the ethical responsibilities of preserving and interpreting history.

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I think it was the first time one of the fellowships had been awarded to a digital project.

I'd been playing around with Trove data for a couple of years, and had created tools to harvest and visualise searches in the digitised newspapers.

There was no API back then, so eve

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Keynote presented to the GLAM Labs Futures conference, Edinburgh, 26 June 2026. View the full set of slides. In 2012, I was lucky enough to be a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia, working with data from digitised newspapers availabl

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