On the codespeak site today, you’ll find links to a customizable kit that anyone can use to host their own Speaking in Code gathering. It includes our starter bibliography, advice for welcoming a diverse group of participants and planning an event, and the framework of a Jekyll website (complete with instructions), ready for you to […]
Welcome to one of the world’s most beautiful Ramayana manuscripts. The original was prepared for Maharana Jagat Singh, the ruler of the Rajput kingdom of Mewar in Rajasthan, in the middle of the seventeenth century. Most volumes of the manuscript are now in the British Library. They were presented by Maharana Bhim Singh of Mewar […]
Not only did T.S. Eliot draw the cover for the first edition of his Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats, featured yesterday, he even read it aloud for the audiobook edition. You may think the time of the audiobook, now a popular form on digital audio devices everywhere, must have begun long after the time of Eliot had […]
One way of doing OCR on your own machine with free tools, is to use Ben Marwick’s pdf-2-text-or-csv.r script for the R programming language. Marwick’s script uses R as wrapper for the Xpdf programme from Foolabs. Xpdf is a pdf viewer, much like Adobe Acrobat, but it comes with OCR bundled within. Using Xpdf on […]
Digital Object Identifiers (DOI) are the backbone of the academic reference and metrics system. If you’re a researcher writing software, this guide will show you how to make the work you share on GitHub citable by archiving one of your GitHub repositories and assigning a DOI with the data archiving tool Zenodo. View full post […]
Stamen has long aspired to make it easier for people everywhere to visualize data, particularly on and with maps. In our recent partnership with Tableau, we’ve helped to improve a tool that does just that. Tableau’s latest version, 8.2, comes complete with a mapping suite designed by us. Suddenly it’s that much easier for people […]
“Sorry, the page you were looking for is no longer available.” In everyday web browsing, a frustration. In recreating or retracing the steps of a scholarly paper, it’s a potential nightmare. Luckily, three tools exist that users should be using to properly cite, store, and retrieve web information – before it’s too late and the […]
NYU Humanities Initiative video series: Join us to hear a panel of faculty and graduate students present case studies of successful digital projects for teaching and to share best practices and new approaches to using technology in their research. Source: Resource: Using Digital Tools in the Classroom and in Research – YouTube
My RDFa introduction and codelab materials for the ALA 2014 preconference on Practical linked data with open source are now online! And now I’ve finished leading the RDFa + schema.org codelab that I’ve been stressing over and refining for about a month at the American Library Association annual conference Practical linked data with open source […]
Mirador, a collaborative effort led by Andrés Colubri from Fathom Information Design, is a tool that helps you find correlative patterns in datasets with a lot of variables and observations. It’s in the early stages of development, but is available to use and test on Windows and Mac. Colubri explains the process, from its early […]
