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CFP: Special “DH 2013″ issue of the Journal of Digital Scholarship

LLC: The Journal of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities will publish a special issue of top papers from Digital Humanities 2013, the annual conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, held this summer at the University of Nebraska.  We invite submissions from anyone who presented at the meeting, including those who gave long and short papers, or who participated in […]

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Resource: Command Line Bootcamp – The Praxis Program

The transition to interacting with your computer on the command line can be a little jarring at first if you’re accustomed to working in an environment dominated by windows, cursors, buttons, and other GUI pleasantries. Really, though, these graphical features are often just façades for functionality that can be achieved with more flexibility and speed […]

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Resource: Writing a Simple Web Spider Using Command Line Tools in Linux

A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]