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Resource: Conference Notes from inaugural Australasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012 by Mia Ridge

Editors’ Note: Mia Ridge has written extensive notes from the inaugural Astralasian Association for Digital Humanities meeting in March 2012: Day 1, Day 2, Day 3. The following is a selection from Day 2. Keynote panel, ‘Big Digital Humanities?’ Day 2 was introduced by Craig Bellamy, and began with a keynote panel with Peter Robinson, Harold […]

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Resource: The Bastards Book of Ruby

The Bastards Book of Ruby is an introduction to programming and its practical uses for journalists, researchers, scientists, analysts, and anyone else whose job is to seek out, make sense from, and show the hard-to-find data.

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Resource: GeoTools

About GeoTools — GeoTools. GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GeoTools library implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. For an overview of the capabilities of GeoTools please check […]

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Resource: WorldMap Warper

Home – Map Warper. Welcome to WorldMap WARP, a tool based on the MapWarper platform being developed by Entropy Free. The tool is for digitally aligning (geo-rectifying) scanned historical maps to match today’s precise maps. Visitors can browse maps others have geo-rectified or upload their own to rectify. Any map which has been rectified here can be brought […]

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Resource: bookworm Open Library

bookworm Open Library bookworm updated for searching Open Library. bookworm is a collaboration between the Harvard Cultural Observatory, Open Library, and the Open Science Data Cloud. It enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.

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Resource: University of Minnesota compiles database of peer-reviewed, open-source textbooks

Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with […]

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Resource: CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012

CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012. CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012 Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a gigabyte compressed, is available to download as one file. For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and […]

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Resource: Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012. The PeDALS project has released Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012 . Here’s an excerpt: The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) research project was […]

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Resource: Open Annotation Draft Data Model

The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology which conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for […]