Using a demo reconciliation service developed by Michael Stephens as a model, Ted Lawless put together a basic reconciliation service for the JournalTOC data that queries the JournalTOC API and translates the response to the format that OpenRefine is expecting. The code is available on Github.
Text from a short talk I gave at ‘Future Digital‘, the closing conference of the CHASE Going Digital programme, held on 31 July 2013 at The Open University, Camden Town campus, London. My notes from the event can be viewed on Github Gist. ***** The Digital Scholarship Training Programme, as it is known, covers many […]
Just as we did with the VersuS and ConnectiCity projects, Real Time Cairo captures the life of the digital city and visualizes it on a map. The intent is to create the availability of tools by which to re-appropriate information published on what we perceive to be our digital public spaces, and to make it available […]
The Volkswagen Foundation offers up to 40 Travel Grants for young researchers who wish to attend the conference. Recipients of the travel grants are required to present their project in a three minutes “Lightening Talk” as well as on a poster in a poster session.
Three-day seminar-workshop on the use of Humanities computing methods in Historical Studies organized by the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities, the Departments of History and of Languages and Cultures, and the Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies, in cooperation with the Flemish Medieval Studies Workgroup and the Henri Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies.
We’ve organized all the Points of View columns on data visualization published in Nature Methods and provide this as a guide to accessing this trove of practical advice on visualizing scientific data.
The team are seeking to appoint a full-time post-doctoral research associate for the final year of the project, to help complete the on-line database of astronomical images and accompanying texts.
The American Antiquarian Society was generous enough to offer me a fellowship this summer, so I took a month to research in the AAS’s wonderful collections. A fair bit of my time was spent reading through the nearly complete print run of American Tract Society pamphlets from the early to mid-nineteenth century. I wanted to […]
After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic <http://serendipomatic.org>. Unlike conventional search tools, this “serendipity engine” takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then extracts key terms, delivering similar results from the vast […]
In mid-July the Society for the History of Authorship, Reading & Publishing (SHARP) met for its twenty-first annual conference, “Geographies of the Book,” in Philadelphia. Hosted by University of Pennsylvania, the conference included a three-hour, stand-alone digital showcase on Saturday, July 20th. Before I turn to the sixteen projects featured in the showcase, a few […]
