Resource: Great tools for data visualization
The folks at Datavisualization.ch highlight most of the best tools for making maps and charts, or processing data.
Category: Resources
Resource: Hackathons: the How To Guide from Open Knowledge Foundation
The guide is meant to describe not only how to run a hackathon but why we run them the way we do. Our intention is that our participants walk away from our events inspired and with a new understanding of what open data is and how it can be used to inform, and add value. […]
Resource: Introducing Participad, Realtime collaboration for WordPress
Participad integrates an Etherpad Lite install into your WordPress installation, enabling realtime collaboration on the WordPress Dashboard or the front end of your WP site.
Resource: (New) Humanist Discussion Group
(New) Humanist Discussion Group. The online world is now simply part of what most humanists in the developed world do, so much so that we may wonder if the digital humanities, like the state in Marxist theory, will soon wither away. The same question might be asked about Humanist, since the Web is now populated by […]
Resource: Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation
Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation | Literature Geek. As you might have noticed from this blog and my tweets, I’m in the opening act of what promises to be an exciting and non-traditional doctoral literature dissertation. I’ll be blogging the actual content of the dissertation in the months to come, but […]
Resource: T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts
T-PEN: A New Tool for Transcription of Digitized Manuscripts « Early Modern Online Bibliography. T-PEN (Transcription for Paleographical and Editorial Notation) seeks to address both the accessibility and usability of digital repositories. Developed by the Center for Digital Theology of Saint Louis University, in collaboration with the Carolingian Canon Law Project of the University of Kentucky, this new digital tool is a […]
Resource: Digital Curation: Alternatives to Storify
As I wrote in one of the early ProfHacker blog posts, it’s always a good idea to have a backup plan. This truth was brought home to me this semester in my teaching. About a month ago, students in my course on “Writing in Digital Environments” began experimenting with Storify, a social media curation tool we’ve covered before […]
Resource: Digital History: A Two-Part Series
Hello Digital Historians, This year is flying by! With roughly two months left in the semester, we aim to stimulate discussion about the ways historians are engaging in the digital humanities through a series of eight blog posts. Over the next eight weeks we will cover Digital History topics divided into a two-part series. Series […]
Resource and Opportunity: Welcome to Maker Librarian!
Welcome to Maker Librarian! | Maker Librarian. Having been involved in Maker Culture since 2009, I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in watching the maker and hacker movement intersect with libraries and was excited to play a small role in making this happen. And in the last year interest seems to have exploded! This is where […]
Resource: FedoraConnector Plugin
Scholars’ Lab. For part three of our release parade, we’re showcasing the 1.0.0 release of the FedoraConnector plugin forOmeka. Fedora Commons is a digital repository management system. It’s used by libraries to manage and scale their online repository and digital assets and collections. As such, it’s often used by larger institutions; however, this isn’t aimed at those organizations. […]