The National Library of Wales‘ entire collection of oil paintings has gone online for the entire population to enjoy as part of the Your Paintings project. Over 1,950 oil paintings in the library’s collection have been photographed and put on the website in the partnership project between the Public Catalogue Foundation and the BBC. It aims to put all of […]
CODE – A Media, Games & Art Conference 21-23 November 2012 Swinburne University of Technology Melbourne, Australia Code is the invisible force at the heart of contemporary media and games, routinely obscured by the gadget fetish of breathless tech marketing and scholarly focus on more visible social and technical interfaces. With the recent material turn […]
This is a work in progress – more my notes and queries than a proper paper, stuff will change, references will be added. I wanted most to get this out there and to get your views, your inputs and your insights. Please comment, your thoughts are valued! My recent research with Marilyn Deegan into the […]
Online digitized newspapers are great. If you have access (either through a free database or via a personal or library subscription), you can quickly find the information you need: a specific search for a last name might help you find ancestors, a search for a specific event can find historical context for it (i.e. the […]
This position is responsible for the coordination and management of the Libraries’ digital initiatives, in particular the University of Northern Colorado’s digital repository, Digital UNC [library.unco.edu/digitalunc]. Digital UNC, a Fedora-based repository with a Drupal-based user interface, is UNC’s implementation of the collaboratively developed Alliance Digital Repository [adrresources.coalliance.org].
Images are powerful. They have the capacity to inspire and inform, to enforce stereotypes or refute them. Getting access to good historical images, however, can be tough. Digitizing and sharing images takes time and money, resources which many small archives simply don’t have. Gado Project Gado aims to change all that. Since 2010, we’ve been […]
O’Reilly Media has released Planning for Big Data: A CIO’s Handbook to the Changing Data Landscape as a free Kindle e-book. See the publisher’s description for details.
Today Creative Commons, the U.S. Department of Education, and the Open Society Institute launch the Why Open Education Matters Video Competition. The competition will award cash prizes, provided by the Open Society Institute, of up to $25,000 for the best short videos that explain the use and promise of free, high-quality open educational resources and […]
I am a Computer Scientist by trade but have a strong interest in connections of my trade to other parts of the academy, such as the Arts, Humanities, Science and Engineering. So, when I saw that there was an online workshop called Critical Code Studies, I decided to go in head first by requesting participation in […]
The London Seminar in Digital Text and Scholarship, held monthly at Senate House, Bloomsbury, focuses on the ways in which the digital medium remakes the relationship of readers, writers, scholars, technical practitioners and designers to the manuscript and printed book. Its discussions are intended to inform public debate and policy as well as to stimulate […]
