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 […]
Introduction to Digital Humanities. Professor Todd PresnerWinter 2012, Wed, 2-5 PM, Public Affairs 1278University of California Los Angeles DH 201/Comp Lit 290 Graduate Seminar Introduction to Digital Humanities Humanistic Knowledge, Disciplines, and Institutions in the 21st Century Course Description: The purpose of this graduate seminar is to introduce students to the key concepts, methods, theories, and […]
Archive@NYU : Supporting Digital Humanities in the Library: Creating Sustainable and Scalable Services. As the digital humanities become a mainstream option for many scholars, libraries and presses have the chance to rethink our services. We must grasp how scholarly communication is changing, and partner with scholars to build services they need. This working session reports […]
Scholars’ Lab. Today, the Scholars’ Lab is proud to announce the launch of Neatline, our set of Omeka plugins for hand-crafted geo-temporal visualization and interpretation. You can head right over to http://neatline.org/ to download the 1.0 software, see sample exhibits or play in the sandbox, and read more about the project, including news and history. Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences […]
A Digital Asset Sustainability and Preservation Cost Bibliography « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Back in the early days of the NDIIPP program we had a series of cross-cutting initiatives that we called “affinity groups.” These groups addressed areas of interest such as “collection and selection,” “technical architecture” and “rights and restrictions” that cut across all the different […]
