Project Briefing Presentation by: Barbara Taranto Digital Program Director New York Public Library The New York Public Library recently launched its first foray into crowd sourcing metadata by exposing 40,000 image pages of turn of the century restaurant and cruise ship menus: “What’s On the Menu?” The goal of the project was to widely distribute […]
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.
Timeline Tutorial: Introduction. Using the extraordinary Exhibit and Timeline scripts written by MIT’s SIMILE project and the flexible power of Google Docs spreadsheets, it’s now possible to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines for use in your research and your teaching.
Accessible Dropdown Menus | Terrill Thompson. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible ones). All the examples are available on my Dropdown […]
Nelson Mandela archive launches digital treasure trove | World news | guardian.co.uk. The poignant missive is among more than 1,900 documents, photographs and films of South Africa‘s first black president that were published online on Tuesday by Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
ABC releases landmark archival film footage under Creative Commons | Creative Commons Australia. This year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), our national public broadcaster, is turning 80 years old. To celebrate, the ABC has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our Lives“, giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a […]
Several weeks ago I was aware that there was a flurry of discussion among the digital humanities crowd about “archival silences.” This occurred shortly after I had posted about the differences between the way archivists use “archive” and the way digital humanities people seemed to be using it, so I suspected that “archival silences” would […]
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at UVic is looking for someone to join its team as full-time Coordinator or Assistant Director. As a candidate for this position, you are an organized, self-starting, natural manager and planner who takes initiative; you have good facility with computing, and understand the value of literary, historical, and/or language studies; […]
Editor’s Note: The following infographic traces the chronology of Crowdsourcing from the early 1700s through 4 centuries of innovation up to today. It originally appeared in Ross Dawson’s book “Getting Results from Crowds” and is reprinted with permission here. Click on the image below to get a full-sized view.
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was founded as a literary nonprofit organization in 1999 after the Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference at Brown University. Along with Jeff Ballowe and Robert Coover, I was a co-founder of the ELO, and served as its first Executive Director from 1999-2001, and have served on its board of directors […]
