Releasing the collection on GitHub | cooper-hewitt labs. Late last week we released the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection metadata as a downloadable file. And in a first for the Smithsonian, we dedicated the release to the public domain, using Creative Commons Zero.
Timeline Tutorial: Introduction. Using the extraordinary Exhibit and Timeline scripts written by MIT’s SIMILE project and the flexible power of Google Docs spreadsheets, it’s now possible to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines for use in your research and your teaching.
Accessible Dropdown Menus | Terrill Thompson. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible ones). All the examples are available on my Dropdown […]
Nelson Mandela archive launches digital treasure trove | World news | guardian.co.uk. The poignant missive is among more than 1,900 documents, photographs and films of South Africa‘s first black president that were published online on Tuesday by Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
ABC releases landmark archival film footage under Creative Commons | Creative Commons Australia. This year, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), our national public broadcaster, is turning 80 years old. To celebrate, the ABC has launched a new website called “80 Days That Changed Our Lives“, giving 80 pieces of audio visual content from the ABC archives a […]
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at UVic is looking for someone to join its team as full-time Coordinator or Assistant Director. As a candidate for this position, you are an organized, self-starting, natural manager and planner who takes initiative; you have good facility with computing, and understand the value of literary, historical, and/or language studies; […]
Editor’s Note: The following infographic traces the chronology of Crowdsourcing from the early 1700s through 4 centuries of innovation up to today. It originally appeared in Ross Dawson’s book “Getting Results from Crowds” and is reprinted with permission here. Click on the image below to get a full-sized view.
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was founded as a literary nonprofit organization in 1999 after the Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference at Brown University. Along with Jeff Ballowe and Robert Coover, I was a co-founder of the ELO, and served as its first Executive Director from 1999-2001, and have served on its board of directors […]
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 […]
