Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as…

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2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture * Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012 * Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2011 * Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call) The Programme Committee…

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Newly peer-reviewed and updated: The Swinburne Project. Congratulations are in order for editor John Walsh and the team at The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project at Indiana University. Although a preliminary phase of the site had already been aggregated by NINES, a new review was scheduled after the scope of the project had expanded in the past few…

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DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. JISC has released Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. Here’s an excerpt: The results show that is it possible to build a low-cost, practical solution that addresses immediate preservation problems, makes use of available open source tools, and requires minimal IT…

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Who are you, Digital Humanists ?. This questionnaire, which is an initiative of the Centre for Open Publishing (Cleo) and openEdition.org, is a contribution to the Humanistica Project: towards a European association for the Digital Humanities, building on the ideas expressed in the Digital Humanities Manifesto, based on a multilingual approach, and democratic principles (one…

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UNC Charlotte: Associate University Librarian for Special Collections | HASTAC. The Atkins Library at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte aspires to national leadership in the field of digital scholarship and special collections, and to this end it seeks applications and nominations for a faculty appointment, Associate University Librarian (AUL) for Special Collections. The AUL…

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Timeline Tutorial: Introduction. Using the extraordinary Exhibit and Timeline scripts written by MIT’s SIMILE project and the flexible power of Google Docs spreadsheets, it’s now possible to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines for use in your research and your teaching.

Accessible Dropdown Menus | Terrill Thompson. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible ones). All the examples are available on my Dropdown…

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