Resource: GitHub for Academics: the open-source way to host, create and...
One of the chief goals of liberal education is the creation and curation of human knowledge. As I discussed in my previous article, this necessarily involves critiquing and building on the work of...
View ArticleResource: Understanding CHORUS, from the Association of American Publishers
What is CHORUS? The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a framework for a possible public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications...
View ArticleResource: OpenDAHT
OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. All software supported by...
View ArticleResource: Prism
Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation.” Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or “facets.” Each individual...
View ArticleResource: Easy steps towards open scholarship
Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, presents the best ways to ensure discoverable access to research outputs. He highlights the metadata power of...
View ArticleResource: WordSeer 3.0
WordSeer is a web-based text analysis and sensemaking environment for humanists and social scientists. It’s a a research project at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division and School of Information.
View ArticleResource: Scalar Webinars, Register Now
http://laurientaylor.org/2013/06/15/new-scalar-webinars-register-now/ Curious about Scalar? Sign up for a free webinar! Following up on their recent Beta release, the Scalar development team is...
View ArticleResource: Digital Preservation Tool Grid
Digital Preservation Tool Grid. This tool grid is the product of researching digital preservation tools by Digital POWRR team members in early 2013. The information included is accurate to the best of...
View ArticleResource: Batch Downloading and Building Simple Search Engines with Command...
In previous posts we downloaded a single book from the Internet Archive, calculated word frequencies, searched through it with regular expressions, and created a permuted term index. In this post, we...
View ArticleResource: Making Forms Accessible
I’ve written on making forms accessible before in the WCAG series, but I thought I’d document some real examples using the work that I’ve been doing. This one is a fairly simple, but important example...
View ArticleResource: Digital Humanities GIS projects revisited
A milestone: my list of Digital Humanities GIS projects has now topped 100 entries. It currently stands at 103 entries, the latest to be added being the Google-sponsored Routes of Sefarad, mapping...
View ArticleResource: Doing OCR Using Command Line Tools in Linux
In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple...
View ArticleResource: muse-tech-central on GitHub
This is a collection of open-source museum projects active on github along with a list of “featured projects” hopefully of interest to the broader community.
View ArticleResource: The Museum System API
This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS). The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web...
View ArticleResource: “Guide to Documentary Editing” by Mary-Jo Kline and Susan Holbrook...
For the first time, users of the Guide will be able to do full-text searching of its contents as well as move freely through them using the dynamic table of contents. Guide to Documentary Editing.
View ArticleResource: Digital Disputations: A Tech Review of Digital Editing and...
This month, I shifted gears from installation and configuration of my local Infinite Ulysses site to the first new coding work on the project (read more about the project itself here). I’ve captured a...
View ArticleResource: Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital...
My colleague Oliver Duke-Williams and I had a paper on ‘Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities’ accepted to the recent Digital Humanities conference in Nebraska. After...
View ArticleResource: Creating useful classifications with taxonomies (part 1)
Taxonomies and other classification schemes are omnipresent in Information Architecture. It recently occurred to me though that there is a great deal of confusion with regards to what a taxonomy is,...
View ArticleResource: Data visualization: A view of every Points of View column from...
We’ve organized all the Points of View columns on data visualization published in Nature Methods and provide this as a guide to accessing this trove of practical advice on visualizing scientific data.
View ArticleResource: An OpenRefine reconciliation service for academic journal data
Using a demo reconciliation service developed by Michael Stephens as a model, Ted Lawless put together a basic reconciliation service for the JournalTOC data that queries the JournalTOC API and...
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