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Resource: Writing a Simple Web Spider Using Command Line Tools in Linux

A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Turning Art Class into a Creative MMORPG

In this review, we feature Mike Skocko, a visual-arts educator at Valhalla High School in California. We had first heard of Mike through an esteemed recommendation from Adobe’s Tacy Trowbridge on Mike’s awesome gamification initiatives. Listen to Mike’s story below to learn about the questing system he adopted into his visual-art class to deliver curriculum in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Humanities Specialist, Michigan State University

The College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University seeks a dynamic and creative full-time hire for the new position of Digital Humanities Specialist. The Digital Humanities Specialist is responsible for curriculum development, research support, and teaching in the area of digital humanities (DH). College of Arts and Letters – Michigan State University :: […]