Computer Programming and Literacy: An Annotated Bibliography » Nettework. With the recent uptick in the “everyone should code” movement, it seems that everyone’s now talking about computer programming as a new form of literacy. The terms by which people refer to the concept vary, but the central idea is shared: computational literacy; computational thinking; procedural […]
R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a challenge to approach for beginners.
The digital revolution brings us all kinds of cool tools that make it easier to study, teach and present history. Interactive timelines are one of my favourites. Compared to their analogue versions, the benefits are clear: you can zoom in and out on time, minimize and maximize text boxes, add pictures and video, cooperate, share, […]
The Archaeological Museum of Salonica holds one of the largest and most diverse collections of ancient sculpture in Greece. The register, which is kept in the Cast Museum of the University of Salonica along with the photographical archive, contains about 1500 entries. The objects were newly measured, described and recorded. The sculptures were photographed from […]
An updated draft of “Linked Data Patterns: A pattern catalogue for modelling, publishing, and consuming Linked Data” is now available.
The Pelagios Cookbook on gitHub now has API documentation available. The documentation is aimed at developers who want to build their own applications or mashups using data from the Pelagios network of partners.
A list of resources for creating mobile apps compiled for the DH Summer Institute.
Field Papers allows you to print a multipage paper atlas of anywhere in the world and take it outside, offline, into the field. You can scribble on it, add features, or make notes about the area, all without a GPS or complicated GIS software. Once you’ve annotated your atlas, you can upload photographs of each […]
Junar provides a cloud-based platform for opening data to drive innovation, collaboration, and to meet legislative goals.
From Tonya Howe: I’ve been trying to wrap my head around github, and while it’s been a slow process, I think my experience may be useful for other folk like me–those of us who have just enough knowledge (and the curiosity, and the really big eyes) to make a mess of things. So, I thought […]
