 Thanks very much for this opportunity to talk to such a diverse and interesting audience. I won't be playing with code like Tim, but looking more at the outcomes of working with an IT team that has enabled us to take advantage of the tremendous capacities of web technologies for advancing humanities research today. I'm directing the prosecution project. It's a project that's been going for about five years. We were funded by the Australian Research Council in 2013 to conduct an investigation into the history of the criminal trial in Australia, the history of criminal prosecution. So the funding enabled the gathering of a research team, a number of people, head of MSOL, a couple of research fellows, PhD students, research assistants of various kinds. So it's quite a large team in terms of the usual experience of humanities disciplines and offers tremendous capacity for developing our research. So we're historians, we're interested in crime, one of the main sources of our data. Well, Tim's just pointed to the fantastic resource of Trove, a key resource you could, without even having the Australian archives and original court records, you could do a lot of what we want to do in our project just through using the resources of Trove. And I might say something about that later in terms of our current experience of working with some researchers outside Australia who are using Trove as a way of getting into Australian history. But as historians, we value working with archives with original sources. It's one of the means of getting to the histories, the stories that we want to talk about. And so, conventionally, of course, historians have worked with paper and pen. More than any time, more than 10 years ago, you would generally have had to just go into an archive with paper and pen. The most technology you might see there would be a microfilm reader. If you're unfortunate enough to be working with records that they had microfilmed and they wouldn't allow you to look at originals, you'd be looking at microfilms. Fortunately, those microfilms now in the last 10 or 15 years have increasingly been digitised themselves so they've produced scanned images that can become the resources for a project like ours. I might just show you very quickly the inside of our project as a research every day practice. This is the core of what we work with every day. This is a project that is interested in working at the case level in understanding the process by which somebody was arrested and charged with a crime and then processed through a court system with a possible outcome of being convicted and then sent to prison for a certain period of time. Even before 1967 in Australia, being possibly vulnerable to execution. We have quite a few thousand people in our cases who in fact were sentenced to death. We work with a system which was designed as a collaboration between the researchers and IT people at Griffith e-research services. What we wanted to do was to be able to work with a distributed research team at possibly a number of places around the country. We wanted to use the web technologies and the sharing of resources to enable us to build a database from any web connected computer. This is the interface that was designed over a period of time. Very intensive work with our IT collaborators. Meeting weekly, importantly, in fact we're still doing it after five years, constantly re-evaluating redeveloping parts of it. What we do is take particular images that we've had digitised and I'll give you an example from the New South Wales courts. We have these digitised images which are delivered to the desktop of researchers or a community of volunteers that we recruited through the project and who are given these records to transcribe into the structured form that you see there. The system was designed with a lot of capacity for the researchers to vary the range of attributes for any particular research collection depending on the nature of the records in each state and then to edit over time as we needed to the records that are produced. We're dealing really with originally just with Supreme Court records for six states of Australia but the capacity of the project has grown considerably over this period of time when more and more data is becoming available for use in this kind of project. For example, with Tim Sherritt's help in fact using an earlier stage of his trope harvester we've been able to access the metadata of the huge collection of courts martial records in Australian military theatres in the 20th century and we're starting work on that currently. Most of these other records relate to particular state jurisdictions. In addition to the Supreme Court records we're being accessing things like the Queensland Morton Bay Colony records which are preserved in the form of a small number of registers and which have been transcribed by a community historian and we've been able to access the data for those off the Queensland Government open data site. There are other resources like the police assets which we access sometimes through research collaborations with other partners. Hamish Maxwell Stewart at the University of Tasmania has been doing a lot of work with different police cassette records and then we also have now increasing numbers of prison records being digitised by some of the archives. We've done a lot of work with the Victorian female prison registers which were digitised by the Public Record Office of Victoria. Wonderful, very comprehensive collection, absolutely world-class digitisation project at the archival level which will enable us eventually to have a very comprehensive history of crime and imprisonment in Victoria over about an 80-year period from the 1850s. So that's a tremendous range of resources there that's been built up over a period of time during which the digital landscape has been changing with these cultural collections in archives and through other sources including Trove. A significant development since the beginning of the project and the design of the original interface was the development of the Trove API which we now use to search for materials that may relate to the particular case that we are investigating. So in this case this prisoner Annie Wise who which had a trial date here you can see in 1881 the Trove API enables us to semi-automate a search on the data about Annie Wise for that particular year and throws up a number of results which we can then inspect and it looks like we've got the first hit there recording the possible information. We can copy that link back into the record and it becomes a permanent part of that record for future use. I'll just put it in there oh there's the trove link there. Increasingly these records are now available through a public search site and this is our public web page and the most important feature of it is this search facility which is a live facility. So records that are being created today if they fall within the access period that we release which is up to 1922 because of various archival restrictions then that data will become available through this particular search page. How am I going for time? A few minutes. I might just highlight a couple of other important linkages that have been developed in the course of the project as we've gone along. Again these are things that have become possible really quite recently and were not something that we considered at the outset of the project in 2013. But with a team of developers through the NCRIS funded RDS project over the last couple of years we've worked with a couple of the cultural institutions on an API that will enable cultural institutions to access our indexes of these court trials for their own collections. So many people may know the very impressive Tasmanian names index which aggregates the search facility across a huge range of their records to enable people to search for family members in the Tasmanian records. The Tahoe Tasmanian Archives and Heritage Office is now using the API that was developed through what's called the Hashtable project to access relevant records in our Tasmanian register and you can see an example here of a particular person whose record has been digitized in the Tasmanian Archives but at their level it's only searchable manually but because we have indexed the records they now have an exact page reference for those records so that increased record discovery enabled through that API from the very valuable feature of the project and now Trove itself is importing and harvesting our records to supplement their People and Organisations zone and I'll just show you very quickly a search you can do on Paul Keating in People and Organisations produces a well-known Australian member of the Federal Parliament but also this guy Paul Keating who appears in the prosecution project indexes and was prosecuted in in Ballarat in 1862 for impersonating a voter the person he impersonated was somebody called Ronald McDonald believe it or not So that Trove use of the API is another very important outcome of this project of improving access and sharing the data from our project to the wider community not just for the use of researchers but for the general community the many hundreds of thousands of people who are searching Trove every week for different kinds of information about things that are important to them. Five minutes. Okay I might that's highlighted the links to the Tasmanian registers if I go back to the homepage one other thing that we've been working on again is a live interaction with our data to present the statistical overview and enable queries in the record set according to particular features depending on what people may be interested in so we may be interested in murder in New South Wales between 1860 and 1920 and you hope if I just look at a general category of homicide we're now increasingly doing a lot of work to improve the range of data that is able to be visualized through this for example this facility at the moment simply records the raw numbers of appearances over time of course what will be important will be to present those in terms of appearance rates per head of population so that will be a future part of the development of the project. The project has recruited finally I might talk a little bit about its community volunteers from an early stage we realized that the volume of records was beyond the research teams capacity and we'd be another 50 years before we got anywhere near the recording of the data we wanted to access so we wrote to every local history and family history society in Australia to see whether there were people interested in assisting in the project we got very good response we had very good assistance particularly from a number of the archives the Victorian archives Tasmania and Queensland and notably we got a community historical society in Karnamar in Western Australia which came on board with about 80 volunteers who are constantly engaged in in digital projects and become expert transcribers and they in fact have ended up assisting us to enter data for more than 90,000 cases across the range of materials not just Western Australia which we back to completed very early but the Victorian and Queensland material and this is an outcome of the development of a community of shared interests between researchers and general users who are interested in local history and family history and genealogy very important development which has only been made possible through the presence of this project on the web and enabled by the sharing of data out of the archives through digitization that's probably enough for me to to talk about this stage I look forward to any questions that people may have here or or afterwards about the project thank you