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Resource: Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding

Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. For versions of these materials that were […]

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Resource: Stemmaweb from the Tree of Texts Project

We are pleased to present Stemmaweb, which was developed in cooperation with members of the Interedition project and which provides an online interface to examining text collations and their stemmata. Stemmaweb has two homes: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/stemmaweb/ (the official KU Leuven site) http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/ (Tara’s personal server, less official but much faster) via The Tree of Texts | […]

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Resource: Understanding OCR Materials available from Chronicling America, Library of Congress

Partly because of NDNP’s participation in the NEH’s Digging Into Data program, as well as the interest from other individuals and organizations [the Library of Congress] recently started making data dumps of the OCR content available. This same OCR data is available as part of the batch data mentioned above, but the dumps provide two […]

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Announcement: Europeana metadata now available under CCO Public Domain

The digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose – […]

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Resource: A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, from London School of Economics

Available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu. We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

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Resource: The top 20 data visualisation tools

The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine. One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to […]

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Resource: Tweeting #OWS

http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ Emory University Library has collected over ten million tweets from the Occupy Wall Street Movement, beginning on 13 October 2011. While tweets are public, they are not archived or available unless a third party collects them. With Emory’s collection, scholars can better understand the relationship between a movement and social media. In an age of digital […]

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Resource: Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress)

Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress) | Teleogistic. In the past, I’ve written extensively about using Git with WordPress projects. I’ve focused primarily on Git as the primary development channel, with SVN (in this case, plugins.svn.wordpress.org) used for distribution only. In contrast, I use Git for all my local development on the BuddyPress […]

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Resource: How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure?

How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities?  This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are  not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in […]

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Resource: Helping the World to Teach

Helping the World to Teach | Research Blog. In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology […]