Thanks to Kalev Leetaru, a Yahoo! Fellow in Residence at Georgetown University, you can now head over to a new collection at Flickr and search through an archive of 2.6 million public domain images, all extracted from books, magazines and newspapers published over a 500 year period. Eventually this archive will grow to 14.6 million images. Source: […]
PeerLibrary is a rapidly expanding open source project that seeks to provide a collaborative layer of knowledge over academic publications by allowing users to share real-time highlights and annotations. We need your help to keep it growing. We are currently looking for programmers, designers, and community managers. These are volunteer positions*, and we are seeking […]
Digital Humanities Quarterly (http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/), an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities is currently inviting scholars from all disciplines to join our team of regular peer reviewers. Our peer reviewers perform two important tasks: first, to ensure that the materials accepted for publication are of the highest quality, and […]
Bilbo identifies the bibliographic references in journal articles and semantisizes their constituent parts. It then identifies the DOIs corresponding to these references and, where they exist, adds them to the end of the reference as a hyperlink, making it possible to directly access the cited resource. Developed by OpenEdition Lab, Bilbo is now deployed on […]
Here’s the first public announcement of the first official program offered by the Futures Initiative (Graduate Center, CUNY) in conjunction with several other partners. Our goal is to model success stories (and challenges overcome) on the way to inventive, digital, experimental new forms of dissertations. Source: What Is a Dissertation? New Models, Methods, Media
PlotDevice is a Macintosh application that lets you write Python scripts to generate 2D graphics using simple drawing commands. Under the hood, your code drives the system’s Quartz imaging engine, giving your scripts the same graphical power as a full-fledged Cocoa app. Your code can combine basic geometric shapes, typography, freeform Bézier curves, and a […]
The folks at the New York Public Library have a workflow and python script for translating historical maps into Minecraft. It’s a three-step (quite big steps) process. First, they generate a DEM (digital elevation model) from the historical map, using QGIS. This is saved as ‘elevation.tiff’. Then, using Inkscape, they trace over the features from […]
A Ferguson Twitter Archive Much has been written about the significance of Twitter as the recent events in Ferguson echoed round the Web, the country, and the world. I happened to be at the Society of American Archivists meeting 5 days after Michael Brown was killed. During our panel discussion someone asked about the role […]
Recently Latour outlined his understanding of the digital in an interesting way as part of his plenary lecture at Digital Humanities 2014 conference. He was honest in accepting that his understanding may itself be a product of his own individuation and pre-digital training as a scholar which emphasised close-reading techniques and agonistic engagement around a […]
In the Library with the Lead Pipe is seeking applications for a Social Media Editor. This volunteer position will serve on the Lead Pipe Editorial Board for a two-year term of service. Lead Pipe is an open access, open peer reviewed journal founded and run by an international team of librarians working in various types of […]
