Resources Archive

Resource: WordSeer 3.0

By the Editors | June 13, 2013

WordSeer is a web-based text analysis and sensemaking environment for humanists and social scientists. It’s a a research project at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division and School of Information.

Resource: Easy steps towards open scholarship

By the Editors | June 13, 2013

Ross Mounce, Community Coordinator for Open Science at the Open Knowledge Foundation, presents the best ways to ensure discoverable access to research outputs. He highlights the metadata power of institutional repositories and other services like Zenodo. With a combination of preprint & postprint postings, it is easy to make your research freely available.

Resource: Prism

By the Editors | June 11, 2013

Prism is a tool for “crowdsourcing interpretation.” Users are invited to provide an interpretation of a text by highlighting words according to different categories, or “facets.” Each individual interpretation then contributes to the generation of a visualization which demonstrates the combined interpretation of all the users. We envision Prism as a tool for both pedagogical [...]

Resource: OpenDAHT

By the Editors | June 11, 2013

OpenDAHT is an initiative aimed at the development, maintenance and provision of digital tools and resources for use within various fields of arts and humanities scholarship. All software supported by OpenDAHT is released as freeware, and in some cases, under open source licensing. OpenDAHT always welcomes new contributors. http://dhnow.org/168zVkH

Resource: Understanding CHORUS, from the Association of American Publishers

By the Editors | June 11, 2013

What is CHORUS? The Clearinghouse for the Open Research of the United States (CHORUS) is a framework for a possible public-private partnership to increase public access to peer-reviewed publications that report on federally-funded research.http://dhnow.org/ZHbCsC

Resource: GitHub for Academics: the open-source way to host, create and curate knowledge

By the Editors | June 6, 2013

One of the chief goals of liberal education is the creation and curation of human knowledge. As I discussed in my previous article, this necessarily involves critiquing and building on the work of others, and doing so publicly and accessibly. How can we as a community of scholars facilitate this work? How can a scholar or [...]

Resource: Crowdsourcing + Machine Learning: Nicholas Woodward at TCDL

By the Editors | June 4, 2013

Hi. My name is Nicholas Woodward, and I am a Software Developer for the University of Texas Libraries. Ben Brumfield has been so kind as to offer me an opportunity to write a guest post on his blog about my approach for transcribing large scanned document collections that combines crowdsourcing and computer vision. I presented [...]

Resource: Git for Data Publishing from Open Data Institute

By the Editors | May 23, 2013

I’ve built a Git Data Viewer, which wraps around a git repository (not necessarily GitHub), and exposes some information about the contents in a more data-user-friendly way than the standard GitHub view. Git for Data Publishing | Open Data Institute.

Resource: Digital Humanities Boilerplate from UCDH

By the Editors | May 21, 2013

This site contains content that can be used as boilerplate to help with the development of digital humanities courses and programs UCDH | Digital Humanities Boilerplate.

Resource: Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do

By the Editors | May 16, 2013

Fifty Digital Preservation Activities You Can Do | The Signal: Digital Preservation. Preservation Week 2013 might be over, but digital preservation must go on every week of the year. In truth, preservation is an ongoing, long lasting process that requires active management. Don’t despair, though. I have some helpful suggestions to help keep you in the preservation-y [...]

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