Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: Tricks for Transcribing High-Contrast Historical Reproductions. If you spend enough time as a historical researcher, you’re bound to come across the black blob. The blob – also referred to by its more technical name: “those letters I can’t make out because of the stupid contrast levels […]
In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL’s Open Access Repository –“Discovery”. I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect […]
NEH Funding Opportunity: Research and Development in Digital Preservation and Access « The Signal: Digital Preservation. We here at NDIIPP are always on the lookout for opportunities to help the digital preservation community improve their work. In this respect, I was excited to see the announcement for the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation and Access […]
Lev Manovich » Blog Archive » new article: “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”. Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections. Presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
Call for proposals to host Digital Humanities 2014 | Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC). Digital Humanities (DH) is the annual international conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (AHDO), whose constituent organisations are the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC), the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH), the Society for […]
Indiana University-Data to Insight Center (Pervasive Technology Institute)/University Libraries — Council on Library and Information Resources. The Indiana University (IU) Data to Insight Center, a part of the IU Pervasive Technology Institute and the IU University Libraries, is offering a two-year CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship. The Fellow will be based organizationally within the Data to […]
Employment: Project Manager, EU Digital Infrastructure, TCD | FMRSI. Closing date: 19th April 2012 Project Officer position at Trinity College Dublin for EU digital infrastructure The Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, is recruiting a full time project manager to assist in the coordination of the 48-month Collaborative EuropeaN Digital Archival Infrastructure (CENDARI) project. […]
One of the striking features of computation is the extent to which forms of pattern matching are required in computer processing. Pattern recognition can be described as a means of identifying repeated shapes or structures which are features of a system under investigation. Whilst we tend to think of patterns as visual, of course they […]
Newly peer-reviewed and updated: The Swinburne Project. Congratulations are in order for editor John Walsh and the team at The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project at Indiana University. Although a preliminary phase of the site had already been aggregated by NINES, a new review was scheduled after the scope of the project had expanded in the past few […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. JISC has released Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. Here’s an excerpt: The results show that is it possible to build a low-cost, practical solution that addresses immediate preservation problems, makes use of available open source tools, and requires minimal IT […]
