Peter’s stuff

  • ANZAC Day 2024

    ANZAC Day 2024

    Today my daughter was playing in the school marching band as part of the Melbourne ANZAC Day parade so I found myself waiting with the band amongst the groups of people representing many of the different groups of Australia’s military forces through history. I noticed a small group representing the 58th Battalion – the Essendon…

    Read more…

  • Wikidata at EverythingOpen

    Wikidata at EverythingOpen

    Recently I presented with Alex Lum at the EverythingOpen conference on wikidata. We covered quite a lot in a short time. The conference was great – it was the rebranded Australian Linux conference and it was nice to attend a face-to-face event after all this time.

    Read more…

  • Digital and hybrid archives chapter published

    Digital and hybrid archives chapter published

    Our chapter ‘Digital and hybrid archives A case study of the William J. Mitchell collection’ has now been published as part of the Routledge International Handbook of New Digital Practices in Galleries, Libraries, Archives, Museums and Heritage Sites. Thomas Kvan, Peter Neish & Naomi Mullumby ‘Digital and hybrid archives: A case study of the William…

    Read more…

  • VALA 2018

    VALA 2018

    I presented a couple of papers at VALA this year. Demystifying digital preservation: taking action with a capability maturity model see paper Upskilling by doing: integrating data management planning and online learning see paper

    Read more…

  • GBIF Challenge

    GBIF Challenge

    I’ve been working with Ben Raymond of Grevillea colour distribution fame on an entry to the GBIF Ebbe Nielsen Challenge, which aims to inspire scientists, informaticians, data modelers, cartographers and other experts to create innovative applications of open-access biodiversity data. You can see a sneak peak at our entry at peterneish.github.io/gbif-soundscape/. Its a system that…

    Read more…

  • Linked Data talk at VALA 2014

    Linked Data talk at VALA 2014

    Below are the slides from a talk I gave at VALA 2014 on how we went about trialling Linked Data at the Victorian Parliamentary Library. There is also a longer paper that goes along with the talk.   Linked Data: thinking big, starting small from Peter Neish

    Read more…

  • Heatmap of votes by booth

    Heatmap of votes by booth

    Here’s another visualisation of some data from the 2013 Australian Federal Election. I wanted to see how consistent voting patterns were across booths within an electorate. From handing out how to vote cards at my local polling booth I had the feeling that not every booth is the same. Fortunately the Australian Electoral Commission publishes…

    Read more…

  • Visualising Senate Preferences in the Australian 2013 Election

    Visualising Senate Preferences in the Australian 2013 Election

    The Australian Electoral Commission have released the data for preference allocation and makes a good subject for a visualisation. Using a PERL script I was able to group the ticket preferences into groups and then create a matrix in a format suitable for input to a d3js chord diagram. Getting useful data is always a…

    Read more…

  • Using d3js to visualise the Atlas of Living Australia

    I’ve been playing around with d3js,which is an amazing JavaScript library for visualising data. Using the Atlas of Living Australia Web Services I was able to build a simple data explorer that displays a bubble chart of occurrence data for a taxon. At the moment it is fairly basic and is not entirely intuitive (no…

    Read more…

  • Linux Mint on an Acer em350 netbook

    A quick note on installing Linux Mint on an Acer eMachines netbook (em350) for anyone going down the same path. This netbook is a few years old and the installed OS  (Windows 7 starter) had slowed almost to a crawl. After some painful session trying to work out what was causing excessive load under Windows…

    Read more…