Creative Commons began providing licenses for the open sharing of content only a decade ago. Now more than 400 million CC-licensed works are available on the Internet, from music and photos, to research findings and entire college courses. Creative Commons created the legal and technical infrastructure that allows effective sharing of knowledge, art and data […]
Sifting through and storifying this conversation on Twitter quickly became an exercise in dissecting the many layers of Digital Humanities and Digital Pedagogy. It also made me realize just how elaborate (but still focused) the threads of a Twitter discussion can be.
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The guide describes the techniques used in our Software Studies Lab to explore large image and video sets. The guide covers the following operations (software used is in brackets): – Download and setup free ImageJ software used to prepare images and video for visualizations, and create visualizations. – Automatically detect shots in a video (shotdetect). […]
Have you been considering teaching an Omeka workshop at a conference or for a public or digital history class? Colleen Greene has shared a workshop assignment she created and taught for two hands-on Omeka sessions during the Fall 2011 semester.
The Linked Data Platform provides access to datasets from NPG published as linked data and made available through SPARQL services. The data are queryable interactively through a form interface and remotely through a service endpoint. NPG is making available a number of datasets for public access as linked data. These include data about articles published […]
This web site is designed to be a starting place, an entryway for scholars interested in beginning to explore the possibilities for digital tools, programs, and methods to empower and enhance their scholarship in the humanities. These essays and links are only a brief glimpse into the vast field of potential in the digital humanities, […]
It’s time for the second go at my upper-level undergraduate research seminar, Digitizing Folk Music History: The Berkeley Folk Music Festival Project. At the end of teaching the course last time, I offered the following reflections on what worked and what did not in this kind of digital humanities/digital history course: Digitizing Folk Music History: […]
We all know that appropriate standards are required if electronic textual scholarship is to become precisely what it claims to be – scholarly. Enter the TEI, the various debates on its use, and the rest is history – we now have a standard for electronic textual encoding. What next? Well, encoding, what else? Textual encoding […]
Together with 18 other colleagues and Cléo/OpenEdition.org, we launched a survey to map the Digital Humanities in the world, excusez du peu. This project has to be put in a larger context: in autumn 2012 a European Association for Digital Humanities should be launched at the THATCamp Paris. The Digital Humanities are quite a new “thought collective”. […]
