Reporting to the Manuscripts and Archives (MSSA) Head of Digital Information Systems while working in close collaboration with Library IT, the Fortunoff Video Archives (FVA) Senior Archivist, the Director of Digitization Initiatives, the Digital Preservation Librarian, and other Library stakeholders, the Digital Initiatives Project Manager will have a dual responsibility: (1) to provide technical support…

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I am very pleased to announce the open source release of our SiteStory transactional web archiving solution. The solution is compatible with the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” framework and its current implementation can be used to archive Apache web servers.

On Monday and Tuesday, August 13-14, the Smith Spatial Analysis Lab teamed up with Amherst College to host a workshop for Five College faculty entitled Spatial Techniques for the Digital Humanities. We had a great two days of discussion, learning, and collaboration, as workshop participants and instructors alike worked through eight themed sessions focusing on a…

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Out of the box, Neatline (our recently-released framework for building geotemporal exhibits) can be used to create geo-temporal exhibits based on “modern-geography” base-layers – OpenStreetMap, Google satellite and street maps, and a collection of beautiful, stylized layers from Stamen Design. For historical and literary projects, though, one of Neatline’s most powerful features is its deep integration with Geoserver,…

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Downloadable data sets [OCLC]. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 August 2012—OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file—representing nearly 1.2 million resources—contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples,” the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information. “This is an important step for…

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Teaching Digital Humanties: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject |. Teaching Digital Humanities: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject By CRAIG | Published: AUGUST 16, 2012 I have started teaching in a PhD coursework subject here at the University of Melbourne; the first year that this type of subject have been offered in PhD research here. And as part…

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Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies | Internet Archive Blogs. The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow). To download the Torrent of the files…

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