It’s time for the second go at my upper-level undergraduate research seminar, Digitizing Folk Music History: The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. At the end of teaching the course last time, I offered the following reflections on what worked and what did not in this kind of digital humanities/digital history course: Digitizing Folk Music History: […]
We all know that appropriate standards are required if electronic textual scholarship is to become precisely what it claims to be – scholarly. Enter the TEI, the various debates on its use, and the rest is history – we now have a standard for electronic textual encoding. What next? Well, encoding, what else? Textual encoding […]
Together with 18 other colleagues and Cléo/OpenEdition.org, we launched a survey to map the Digital Humanities in the world, excusez du peu. This project has to be put in a larger context: in autumn 2012 a European Association for Digital Humanities should be launched at the THATCamp Paris. The Digital Humanities are quite a new “thought collective”. […]
Digital Projects Directory. A Directory of past and current digital projects in UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives. This directory is intended to provide a source of reference, to encourage collaboration and to promote innovation.
Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: Tricks for Transcribing High-Contrast Historical Reproductions. If you spend enough time as a historical researcher, you’re bound to come across the black blob. The blob – also referred to by its more technical name: “those letters I can’t make out because of the stupid contrast levels […]
Lev Manovich » Blog Archive » new article: “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”. Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections. Presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Releasing the collection on GitHub | cooper-hewitt labs. Late last week we released the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection metadata as a downloadable file. And in a first for the Smithsonian, we dedicated the release to the public domain, using Creative Commons Zero.
