The DX Lab was a project of the State Library of NSW that ran from 2015 until mid-2021. The Lab is now closed, but many of the experiments created (including this website) during that time remain as a record of the work done there.

Experiments

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Art Index

3.3.2021
Experience Australian artworks featured in exhibitions from 1847-1900 through data visualisations, search and an explorer.
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Poetry in motion

24.12.2020
Poetry in Motion is an experimental interactive using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) data from the Mitchell Library collection
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VirtuOSO

27.8.2020
VirtuOSO is an experiment that plays transcribed sheet music from the Library’s collection.
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Aereo

1.7.2020
The DX Lab Fellowship #3.
An experimental bird’s eye view of the digital collections from the State Library of NSW.
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The Diary Files

4.5.2020
Everyone has a story to tell. The Diary Files is an open, community-generated diary platform where you get to publish an entry.
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Off the Shelf

12.2.2020
Off the Shelf online: an interactive digital display of more than 650 images of book covers from the stacks
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80Hz online

16.10.2019
Listen to a selection of soundscapes made from works in the Library’s ‘Paintings from the Collection’ exhibition.
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80Hz: Sound Lab

6.11.2018
Architectural sound lab created by DX Lab fellow Thomas Wing-Evans. ‘Listen’ to priceless works featured in the Paintings from the Collection exhibition.
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#NewSelfWales

10.9.2018
A digital immersive experience with thousands of portraits from the Library’s collection alongside portraits uploaded via Instagram from people across NSW .
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Field of View

10.8.2018
An interactive 3D and VR experience of the Mitchell Library, merging point cloud data with the Library’s collection.
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Vending Library

3.11.2017
This vending machine is a playful collection surprise dispenser. Tweet to @VendingLibrary with #suggest to see what it recommends for you.
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Meridian

19.10.2017
17th and 18th century maps from the State Library of NSW’s collection brought to life as interactive 3D globes.
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Muru View

5.7.2017
Interactive data visualisation drawing from The Library’s Indigenous language collections.
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Unstacked

27.4.2017
Time-based visualisation of items people are accessing from the State Library of NSW collection. Created by DX Lab fellows Elisa Lee and Adam Hinshaw.
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Pano-scope

20.1.2017
Pano-scope, an experiment that allows you to explore, in detail, some of the awesome panoramas in the Library’s collection.
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Loom

9.11.2016
Loom is the DX Lab’s first experiment with data visualisation. Experience three different ways to get data from the Library’s collection.
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Portico

7.11.2016
Portico an in-gallery touch screen experience accompanied by a web version was built for the exhibition ‘Imagine a City: 200 years of Public Architecture in NSW’.
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1001 Postcards

15.6.2016
1001 Postcards an experimental WebGL interface using over 1000 postcards from the Library’s Broadhurst collection.
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Weemala

11.4.2016
Weemala – explore Indigenous place names and meanings located on a map via letters and surveys collected about each place in NSW.
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Index

1.12.2015
Prototype built to explore the amount of topics for each image in our Loom data visualisation.
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Mainstreet

16.9.2015
Mainstreet is the result of a two week Digital Drop In program using the Library’s collection with the Tweed Regional Museum’s collection.
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