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 […]
AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009. The primary focus of the […]
OpenNLP provides trained models for identifying Parts of Speech (POS). It also provides trained models for Named Entity Recognition (NER), the ability to identify common structures such as names, locations, organizations, among other things. These models are useful for general language processing requirements, but I am working in the domain of literature, and additional knowledge […]
The Praxis Program at UVA Scholar’s Lab has released Ivanhoe, a WordPress theme that enables classroom role-playing games. Read the announcement here.
Accepted papers for the Association for Computing Machinery altmetrics14 conference are now available. Find them here.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media announces the release of its newest digital tool, the PressFoward Plugin, a tool for aggregating, curating and publishing content from the web. See full announcement here: Announcing the PressForward Plugin!
At EFF, we are big fans of open wireless. But we also know that operators of open networks sometimes worry that they could be legally responsible if people use their networks to engage in copyright infringement. We’ve put together a short white paper that generally explains the scope and limits of operator liability for the […]
New Web Program Allows Free Image Download for Non-Commercial Use (New York, May 16, 2014)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including […]
Good things come to those who wait. Today we are officially launching the Londonmapper website, a project that I started working on following the completion of my PhD in 2011. Over the past 2 1/2 years we developed the scope of the project which aims to become a new Social Atlas of London, a project […]
