Announcing for download a package of html, javascript, and css that allows embedding into an html page passages of text served by a Canonical Text Services implementation, by inserting a CTS-URN into a <blockquote></blockquote> element, with a @class attribute “cts-text.” The Homer Multitext seeks to present the textual transmission of the Iliad and Odyssey in…
Electronic literature uses links, images, sound, navigation, as well as text to convey meaning. Electronic literature is ergodic, and thus it is up to the reader to piece together the materials as the reader goes through the work. Elit 101explains how these elements work to convey meaning and provides examples and exercises for each element.
The European Library recently launched its new portal at the LIBER Annual Conference in Tartu. The portal, designed to meet the specific needs of researchers in the digital humanities and social sciences, puts a critical mass of bibliographic records, digital objects and full-text materials at the fingertips of digital humanities and social sciences researchers. It…
Bamboo DiRT is a tool, service, and collection registry of digital research tools for scholarly use. Developed by Project Bamboo, Bamboo DiRT makes it easy for digital humanists and others conducting digital research to find and compare resources ranging from content management systems to music OCR, statistical analysis packages to mindmapping software. via Bamboo DiRT.
Swiss Digitized Newspapers provides online access to titles digitized by the Swiss National Library and its cantonal partners. At present (July 2012) some of the available newspapers are: Confédéré 1861 – Le Journal du Valais 1848 L’Observateur 1846 – 1847 Le Courrier du Valais 1843 – 1844, 1849 – 1857 L’Écho des Alpes 1839 – 1847…
Pundit is a novel semantic annotation and augmentation tool. It enables users to create structured data while annotating web pages. Annotations span from simple comments to semantic links to web of data entities (as Freebase.com and Dbpedia.org), to fine granular cross-references and citations. Pundit can be configured to include custom controlled vocabularies. In other words,…
The DH Curation Guide is “a community resource guide to data curation in the digital humanities.” The DH Curation Guide: offers concise, expert introductions to key topics, including annotated links to important standards, articles, projects, and other resources. […] Data curation is an emerging problem for the humanities as both data and analytical practices become increasingly digital. Research…
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. The POCOS project has released The Preservation of Complex Objects. Volume 1, Visualisations and Simulations. Here’s an excerpt: Let us say that there is an implication that an atomic digital object is a single file, and that this is synonymous with the notion…
UC Santa Cruz launches the Grateful Dead Archive Online – UC Santa Cruz. The UCSC Library announced today that the public can now access the Grateful Dead Archive Online through the GDAO website at www.gdao.org. Several years in the making, GDAO features nearly 25,000 items and over 50,000 scans selected from the Archive at UC Santa Cruz, documenting…
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. The ENUMERATE project has released Survey Report on Digitisation in European Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012. Here’s an excerpt: The ENUMERATE Survey Report on Digitisation in Cultural Heritage Institutions 2012 represents the first major study into the current state of digitisation in Europe. It…