Category: Resources

A digital experience of exploration and discovery: The Environment & Society Portal | Ant, Spider, Bee. As the Internet delivers ever-more specific search results and personalized content, we increasingly miss out on surprising connections. Our project, the Environment & Society Portal, offers something different: an exploratory experience that lets users visualize spatial, temporal, and thematic relationships. […]

Our Annotated HTML Video Player: Free and Open Source | Rural West Initiative. Recently, though, the Mozilla Foundation’s “Web Made Movies” project has been inspiring developers to think about ways, as they put it, “to make video and the Web play nicer together.” The result has been a new javascript codebase called “Popcorn,” that provides […]

DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector. JISC has released Benefits of Open Access to Scholarly Research to the Public Sector. Here’s an excerpt: The total cost to the public sector of accessing journal papers is around £135 million per annum. The savings that accrue from the […]

CC HowTo #1: How to Attribute a Creative Commons licensed work | Molly Kleinman. If part of the goal of Creative Commons is to reduce transaction costs, then there must be some way to use those works without having to contact the creator to ask about proper attribution. In practice, here’s how you can handle […]

New resources on sustainability for digital content : Digitisation and Content Programme. A new video discusses the work on sustainability of digital content that the Strategic Content Alliance (SCA) and ITHAKA S+R have been doing over the last few years and new resources now available. Highlights include five things sustainable projects do and a tool […]

Prism is an experiment in visualizing many readings of a common set of texts, using concepts shared by its users–“the crowd.”  While the Praxis Program itself makes an intervention in graduate training, Prism is an intervention in the concept of crowd-sourcing, which until now has mostly made fact-checkers and copy editors of the crowd.  One of […]

TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid infrastructure, which will ensure availability […]

The Data Journalism Handbook is a free, open source reference book for anyone interested in the emerging field of data journalism.

Rickshaw provides the elements you need to create interactive graphs: renderers, legends, hovers, range selectors, etc. You put the pieces together.

jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will be able to replace parts of the system and build new functionality more easily. Second, it will allow a publishing partner to be involved […]