Category: Resources

The Center for Public History and Digital Humanities and Cleveland State University  is pleased to announce the newest tour on the Cleveland Historical website and mobile app. See full announcement here.

/end #carouselWrapper The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives has released 520,000 pages marked by Philharmonic musicians. See the archive here.

I’m sharing the code I use to correct OCR in my own research. I’ve shared parts of this before, but this is the first time I’ve made any effort to package it so that it will run on other people’s machines. If you’ve got Python 3.x, you should be able to clone this github repository, […]

We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently […]

The Internet Archive has started a Historical Software Collection. This is part of a larger Internet Archive Software Collection that has a number of collections. What is cool is that they have an in-browser emulator that allows you to play with historical software like Visicalc or Atari’s E.T. in the browser. This is a Javascript […]

In previous posts we started with the URLs for particular online resources (books, collections, etc.) without worrying about where those URLs came from. Here we will use a variety of tools for locating primary and secondary sources of interest and keeping track of what we find. We will be focusing on the use of web […]

Bokeh, a Python library by Continuum Analytics, helps you visualize your data on the web. Bokeh is a Python interactive visualization library for large datasets that natively uses the latest web technologies. Its goal is to provide elegant, concise construction of novel graphics in the style of Protovis/D3, while delivering high-performance interactivity over large data […]

The November 2013 Library of Congress Digital Preservation Newsletter is now available! Read the newsletter here.

One of the properties of human relationships is that they are messy, inexact, and complex.  We should not expect to find one perfect way to group or cluster a network of human relationships.  If we do find such a perfect solution, maybe we have over-simplified the problem… Finding logical and plausible clusters in complex systems […]

As explained by Chris Forstall in his earlier post, we are currently experimenting with a new cross-language detection feature over on the Tesserae Development server. We are using two different approaches, and the IBM Model 2 alignment approach bears a little explanation. The purpose of this post is to provide a simple introduction to the theory […]