For the first time, significant portions of the New York Public Library’s digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. ApiService.
Tabula lets you upload a (text-based) PDF file into a simple web interface and magically pull tabular data into CSV format. Tabula is free and available under the MIT open-source license. Introducing Tabula – Features – Source: An OpenNews project.
From simple charts to complex maps and infographics, Brian Suda’s round-up of the best – and mostly free – tools has everything you need to bring your data to life One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – […]
New guide means citing films and audio in your content couldn’t be easier : JISC. The British Universities Film & Video Council’s (BUFVC) guidelines respond to the 2011 Jisc report, Film and Sound in Higher and Further Education: A Progress Report with Ten Strategic Recommendations. The report found that despite the exponential increase in the use of […]
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 […]
