Resource: Digital Curation LinkedIn Group Launched
This group discusses digital curation, which the Digital Curation Centre defines as “maintaining, preserving and adding value to digital research data throughout its lifecycle.”
Category: Resources
Resource: Information needs in digital humanities (Survey from MLS students at U. of Maryland)
You can help a class group project from the MLS program at the University of Maryland with the info needs of digital humanities by taking this brief (16 question) survey
Resource: MITH Receives the Bill Bly Collection of Electronic Literature
The Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) has received a major collection of electronic literature and vintage computer hardware from pioneering hypertext author Bill Bly.
Resource: Alchemy, Text Analysis, and Networks! Oh my!
By Scott B. Weingart
What I really want to highlight, though, is a brand new feature introduced by Wallace Hooper: automated Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) of the entire corpus. For those who are not familiar with it, LSA is somewhat similar LDA, the algorithm driving the increasingly popular Topic Models used in Digital Humanities. They both have their strengths and weaknesses, but essentially what they do is show how documents and terms relate to one another.
Resource: ViewShare.org: Create and Share Interfaces to Our Digital Cultural Heritage
We are thrilled to announce the launch of a new site, Viewshare.org, a platform for empowering curators, archivists, and librarians to provide access to the digital cultural heritage objects they are preserving.
Resource: an ode to node
Interesting discussion of how to use IRC channels to show people how much Wikipedia is actively curated, without requiring them to reload the recent changes page, connect to some cryptic IRC channels, or dig around in some (wonderfully) detailed statistics. More importantly, could it be done in a playful way?
Resource: easygui for the programming historian
I’ll provide a quick and easy tutorial on using easygui and some usage scenarios.
Resource: Creative Commons & Digital Preservation Presentation
A slideshare of the presentation “Creative Commons & Digital Preservation” by Jane Park of Creative Commons.
Resource: Born-Digital: An Archival Approach
A Slideshare of the “Born-Digital: An Archival Approach” presentation by Jackie Dooley, Program Officer at OCLC Research to the Digital Library Federation.
Resource: “From Crowd Knowledge to Machine Knowledge: use cases with semantics & user interaction in cultural heritage collections”
Slides from “From Crowd Knowledge to Machine Knowledge: use cases with semantics & user interaction in cultural heritage collections” by Lora Aroyo, VU University Amsterdam.