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 […]
New Article by Matt Might: CESK machines can concisely and efficiently model the semantics of functional languages like the lambda calculus. It’s less appreciated that CESK machines can do the same for object-oriented and imperative languages too. This post explores a CESK machine for a high-level, object-oriented bytecode inspired by the Dalvik virtual machine for […]
This updated post is written for cultural heritage professionals seeking a quick-start guide for those interested in learning more about what the digital humanities are and what kinds of projects, tools, and possibilities are open and available. I also want to contribute to the current conversation (which you can join as well), that seeks to […]
This is part 3 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in GeoServer and Neatline. In part 1 of this series, we used ArcMap to convert a static image into a georeferenced .tiff file. In part 2, we post-processed the file with gdal to remove the […]
This is part 2 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in Geoserver and Neatline. Check out part 1, which covers rectification in ArcMap. In the first part of this series, we brought a static image into ArcMap and converted it onto a georeferenced .tif file. In this article, […]
I am very pleased to announce the open source release of our SiteStory transactional web archiving solution. The solution is compatible with the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” framework and its current implementation can be used to archive Apache web servers.
Out of the box, Neatline (our recently-released framework for building geotemporal exhibits) can be used to create geo-temporal exhibits based on “modern-geography” base-layers – OpenStreetMap, Google satellite and street maps, and a collection of beautiful, stylized layers from Stamen Design. For historical and literary projects, though, one of Neatline’s most powerful features is its deep integration with Geoserver, […]
Course Details – Clio Wired I — Fall 2012. This course is designed to introduce history graduate students to the theories and methods of digital history. Over the last 14 years (check out the syllabus from 1998), the course has prepared a generation of graduate students to do cutting edge historical work in a digital environment, […]
Downloadable data sets [OCLC]. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 August 2012—OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file—representing nearly 1.2 million resources—contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples,” the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information. “This is an important step for […]
Teaching Digital Humanties: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject |. Teaching Digital Humanities: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject By CRAIG | Published: AUGUST 16, 2012 I have started teaching in a PhD coursework subject here at the University of Melbourne; the first year that this type of subject have been offered in PhD research here. And as part […]
