What an amazing conference filled with inventive, kind, humorous and wickedly smart people. About 350 of you showed up and it was so much fun. Because it was such a busy conference and we didn’t all have a chance to see each other’s papers, we’re asking conference participants to post their talks here on HASTAC. […]
Digitate: Annotating the Visual | josullivan.org. Digitate (http://digitate.org) is a free application designed for use on iPad devices, which allows scholars and enthusiasts with an interest in the visual and material elements of a cultural artefact to make notes and annotations directly on an image of any such artefact. For example, a literary scholar might […]
StackLife demonstrates one way a group independent of the Digital Public Library of America can create its own way of browsing its collection, using the information made openly available by the DPLA. DPLA StackLife.
Data Includes More than 3.7 Million Bibliographic Items Spanning Five Centuries The National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library and a component of the National Institutes of Health, announces that Extensible Markup Language (XML) data from the IndexCat™ database is now available for free download. NLM Releases Extensible Markup Language XML for IndexCat™ Data.
“Digitizing the archives of the premier research journal for academic librarianship provides a tremendous new asset for our profession,” said ACRL President Steven J. Bell of Temple University. “Creating and sharing this rich resource demonstrates ACRL’s ongoing commitment to promote and deliver on the promise of open access. It is a treasure trove of content […]
Internet Archive announces today the addition of over 450,000 journal articles from the JSTOR Early Journal Content collection. Early Journal Content is a selection of pre-1923 materials from more than 350 journals and includes articles in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and mathematics and other sciences. This content was digitized by JSTOR and is freely […]
Teaching Resources for GIS Educators. Teachers and learners of GIS, and related geo-technologies, want to increase the rewards while we lower the frustrations. This site, created by instructors and for instructors, is designed to support our educational community of practice.
Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics is a freely available title published by OpenBooks via Resource: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics | Eduhacker.
You will find links to both individual files and a folder containing all of materials used during the session. The materials are designed to be used sequentially, though some of them can stand alone. The documents offer probing questions, tip sheets, and guides that are useful when you begin developing a project. In case you […]
