Team MARKUP evolved as a group project in Neil Fraistat’s Technoromanticism graduate seminar (English 738T) during the Spring 2012 term at the University of Maryland; our team was augmented by several students inthe sister course taught by Andrew Stauffer at the University of Virginia. The project involved using git and GitHub to manage a collaborative encoding project, practicing […]
Second NeDiMAH infoviz workshop, Call for Participation. Visual Tools and Methods in Digital Humanities: Representing, Reading, and Thinking about Knowledge Creation… 21st of July 2012 in Hamburg alongside the DH conference. Exploring the shifting intersection between more descriptive and analytical uses of visual components in digital environments and interpretative research tools – we will […]
Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation. Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program. The Miso Project, a collaboration between The Guardian andBocoup, is an effort to lighten the barrier to entry. While the goal is to build a toolkit that makes visualization easier and faster, the first […]
Since I work in the CDLR, I get to raise all kinds of wild questions that don’t fall into the purview of traditional, disciplinary bound scholarship. To prepare for my presentation at the Pop Conference (instituted by Experience Music Project in Seattle), this year combined with IASPM-US (International Association for the Study of Popular Music), I became preoccupied with the […]
People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project – White Rose Research Online. Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in […]
Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Library seeks a knowledgeable, resourceful, and collaborative individual for the position of Newspaper Digitization Project Librarian. The Project Librarian will coordinate activities for the proposed, multi-year grant project, North Carolina Newspapers. In this project, the University Library will lead a collaborative effort […]
APPLICATIONS ANALYST. As a member of the Web Unit in the University Library’s Systems Department, the Applications Analyst provides applications programming, Web development expertise, and technical support for the UNC Library. The primary purpose of this position is to work with content creators to meaningfully express their content in a content management system (CMS). In […]
Hurry–Send us Your Ideas for Digital Preservation 2012, July 24-26 For the first time we are opening the call for proposals for broad participation. Any organization with an interest in digital preservation can propose ideas for potential inclusion in the meeting. We are specifically seeking proposals for posters, 5-minute “lightning talks” and tool demonstrations. Topics of […]
Editors’ Note: “Graphs, Maps, and Trees: Imagining the Future of Public Interfaces to Cultural Heritage Collections” is a working group meeting at the National Council on Public History this weekend. Leading up to the event, participants have contributed a variety of proposals, discussions, reports,and analysis to the blog Visualizing the Past. Three of the most […]
Google Fusion Tables (GFT) is a freely accessible tool for hosting and managing data tables, as well as creating visualizations and maps online. See the GFT tour and also theGFT Help Page. Requires a free Google account (use a regular Google account; avoid using a limited-access Google Apps account issued by an old school). Goal of this […]
