From the repository description: An OpenRefine reconciliation service for GeoNames. The service queries the GeoNames API and provides normalized scores across queries for reconciling in Refine. cmh2166/geonames-reconcile.
From the announcement: We’re delighted to announce that the Getty Research Institute has released the Union List of Artist Names (ULAN)® as Linked Open Data (LOD). The Getty is committed to making our knowledge resources freely available to all, and this is another important milestone in that ongoing effort. Getty Union List of Artist Names […]
From the announcement: Come with us on June 3rd for a performative, full day workshop at King’s College in London in which we will experiment just how much data we generate as human beings, citizens and members of communities. Source: Playing with Data: Ubiquitous Commons at King’s College in London
Christopher Watts, from St. Lawrence University, created the following video for a New York Six event. The premise of the talk creatively explores how the obsession with quantifying information without qualitative considerations can lower the bar for what it means to be alive. If we increasingly value data points as the primary form of knowledge, but lose our […]
In this post, Chad Gaffield (University of Ottawa) reflects on the Association of Research Libraries’ 2014 Fall Forum. We do not live in a technologically-driven age but we do live in a technologically-enabled age that is proving to be paradigm-shifting, with DH often leading the way My perspective first situates the question of scholarly monographs […]
From the announcement: How can investigators make better use of the abundance of high-quality research available on the web? As contributions increase to open-access repositories, journals, and social media communities, the task of discovering, evaluating, and sharing relevant work with peers and collaborators grows more challenging. For those in the sciences, materials like data, pre-prints, […]
From the post: The Head of Digital Preservation will lead efforts to create a long-term digital preservation strategy, establishing the policies and procedures that address the preservation of the digital assets the Library collects and generates. For over a decade, the Library has made significant investments in digitizing distinctive collections and building online systems to […]
From the announcement: The Pennsylvania State University Libraries invites nominations and applications for the position of Associate Director of the Center for Humanities and Information (CHI), a new research center jointly managed and run by the Libraries and the College of Liberal Arts (CLA). This is a twelve-month, tenure-track, library faculty position based at the […]
From the post: Karma is a web based tool that run both the server and browser right on your own machine so we had computers with the tool installed to play with. Karma is an open source tool that makes it easy to convert data from a variety of formats into Linked Data. Users load […]
From the post: For research purposes, if you wanted all video content produced by The White House, video content that matches the search query ‘Dragons’, a single video, or perhaps a custom playlist of videos and perhaps even associated text transcripts, then Youtube-DL is a game changer, knowledge of which may possibly make you start spinning […]
