Episode 79: Paul Lovejoy, Canada Research Chair in African Diaspora History at York University, discusses building an international database of biographical information on all enslaved Africans. He outlines this digital history project’s contribution to the study of slavery, race, and broader themes in global history. This is the first part of a two-part series recorded […]
The Educopia Institute has released Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. (PDF) These Guidelines are an effort to distill preservation-readiness steps into incremental processes that an institution of almost any size or type can deploy to begin maturing its digital newspaper content management practices. Digital Scholarship Overview | DigitalKoans
APIs present researchers with a diverse set of data sources through a standardised access mechanism: send a pasted together HTTP request, receive JSON or XML in return. Today we tap into a range of APIs to get comfortable sending queries and processing responses. These are the slides from the final class in Web Scraping through […]
This posting outlines the implementation of a Semantic Web application. It is a sort of inference engine feed with a URI and integer, both supplied by a person. Its ultimate goal is to find relationships between URIs that were not immediately or readily apparent. Source: Morgan, Eric Lease: Semantic Web application
I don’t think I’ve shared my workflow before for mapping the structure of a webcrawl. After listening to Sebastian Heath speak at #dapw it occurred to me that it might be useful for, interalia linked open data type resources. So, here’s what you do (and my example draw’s from this year’s SAA 2014 blogging archaeology […]
Wikipedia is meant to be a starting point, not a final source of knowledge. It is permanently incomplete and evolving, with continuous formal and informal review. Delving into that process, learners can explore critical reading, digital literacy and deep questions of knowledge. Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador, gives us his top ten tips for […]
The Code4Lib Journal (C4LJ) exists to foster community and share information among those interested in the intersection of libraries, technology, and the future. To be included in the 25th issue, which is scheduled for publication in mid-July 2014, please submit articles, abstracts, or proposals via web form or by email to journal@code4lib.org by Friday, April […]
The Fellow will a) teach one or two courses each year within his or her area of academic research; b) guide arts, humanities, and humanistic social science faculty in the use of digital tools for curricular and research purposes, and help them develop digital humanities projects; and c) work with LIS staff to train students […]
Initially, half of the position is dedicated to the Humanities, Arts, Sciences, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory (HASTAC) and HASTAC programming at Duke, while the other half is dedicated to program support for the HASTAC/MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning Competition. After July 1, 2014, we expect the position to be entirely dedicated to the […]
….Although the Big Data Initiative only includes scientific agencies, it turns out that the humanities have been involved for just as long. In 2009, when Data.Gov was being launched, the first Digging into Data Challenge was held. Sponsored by the NEH and comparable organizations in the UK and Canada, the eight winning Digging into Data […]
