I don’t think I’ve shared my workflow before for mapping the structure of a webcrawl. After listening to Sebastian Heath speak at #dapw it occurred to me that it might be useful for, interalia linked open data type resources. So, here’s what you do (and my example draw’s from this year’s SAA 2014 blogging archaeology […]
Wikipedia is meant to be a starting point, not a final source of knowledge. It is permanently incomplete and evolving, with continuous formal and informal review. Delving into that process, learners can explore critical reading, digital literacy and deep questions of knowledge. Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador, gives us his top ten tips for […]
Editors’ Note: You also may be interested in Ed Summer’s overview of what happens when you embed a Getty Image. Getty Images new embed feature makes it easy, legal and free for anybody to share our images on websites, blogs and social media platforms. Search images available to embed.
Welcome to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, a freely accessible online archive of digitized newspaper content from the University of Illinois Library. This collection contains 45 newspaper titles, 78,494 issues comprising 978,921 pages and 6,648,636 articles. See the full resource here.
I’ve got some great news: over the last few years javascript has matured as a language and as a community. No longer are javascript applications “spaghetti” code by default, and cross-browser issues are much less common and painful than in the past. Myriad Model-View-Something frameworks exist to provide structure for your code, and if you’re […]
This is the simplest of SPARQL tutorials. The tutorial’s purpose is two-fold: 1) through a set of examples, introduce the reader to the syntax of SPARQL queries, and 2) to enable the reader to initially explore any RDF triple store which is exposed as a SPARQL endpoint. Read the full post here.
Tonight, I am a guest lecturer in a course on Museum Studies. I’ve been asked to help present the basics of the Digital Humanities. Here is my presentation. Feel free to use and transform (Creative Commons License below). See Full Presentation Here
I was recently part of a panel organized by Holly Dugan at George Washington University on the topic of #altac and #postac careers. The storify from the tweets is worth reading through for the insights from my fellow panelists, Alyssa Harad, Evan Rhodes, and Meredith Hindley, and for comments from the audience. The first part […]
Three presentations from World Information Architecture Day are available on Livestream. See presentations here.
Sefaria.org is a library of digital, interconnected Jewish texts with parallel translations. See resource here.
