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”. […]
Digital Projects Directory. A Directory of past and current digital projects in UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives. This directory is intended to provide a source of reference, to encourage collaboration and to promote innovation.
Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: Tricks for Transcribing High-Contrast Historical Reproductions. If you spend enough time as a historical researcher, you’re bound to come across the black blob. The blob – also referred to by its more technical name: “those letters I can’t make out because of the stupid contrast levels […]
Lev Manovich » Blog Archive » new article: “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”. Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections. Presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as […]
