Edward Tufte’s course on Presenting Data and Information (with image, tweets) · lubar · Storify. Spent a most fascinating day in Boston at Tufte’s course on “Presenting data and information.” More about the course @edwardtufte’s website: www.tufte.com
ViralSearch [microsoft.com], developed by Jake Hofman and others of Microsoft Research, visualizes how content spreads over social media, and Twitter in particular.
Digital Thoreau and Parallel Segmentation What really caught my attention, however, is that they freely offer a toolkit of materials from their project, including XML documents marked up in TEI Parallel Segmentation. This allowed me to take a closer look at how they encoded the text featured in the demo, and try visualizing it, myself.
Free Your Metadata. Clean up your metadata and discover how to handle those embarrassing errors. Free Your Metadata is a scientific collaboration between Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Google.
English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA at UCSB) | Early Modern Online Bibliography. The University of California at Santa Barbara has created a free digital ballad collection called The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), which provides access to more than 8,000 seventeenth-century ballads. The collection includes ballads from the Pepys Collection, the Roxburgh Collection, the Euing Collection, and the Huntington Library. […]
Designing databases for historical research (free course) | Institute of Historical Research. This free module provides an overview of important concepts both in terms of the historical data that might be used in databases and in terms of the design process. The module takes the form of a handbook, broken down into chapter headings and […]
A new public group, EMDC: The Early Modern Digital Collaboratory, has launched on MLA Commons. RESOURCE: MLA Commons, The Early Modern Digital Collaboratory ← dh+lib.
We’ve shown you how to load up your ereaders with free ebooks, and Project Gutenberg is a great place to do it. Project Gutenberg Adds Dropbox Support, Perfect for Syncing to All Your Devices.
Over 1000 recordings of music recorded by John Brearley in Botswana, primarily among San or Bushmen people in the Kalahari, have been made available on the British Library Sounds website. Kalarahi San [Bushmen] music online – British Library Music Blog.
A quick fyi for Bach lovers: You can download for free the complete organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach. They were recorded by Dr. James Kibbie (University of Michigan) on original baroque organs in Leipzig, Germany. Start with a collection of Favorite Masterworks, or get the complete worksthat have been divided into 13 groups for easy download. Once you download these […]
