In coordination with the McNeil Center for Early American Studies and specialists at the University of Pennsylvania Libraries, in addition to bepress, we have established the Magazine of Early American Datasets (MEAD). Read full post here.
Antony Groves has published a short guide on using Vine to disseminate library information. Read the full post here.
I wanted to explore Spotify’s metadata in a way that would model the interpretive messiness of generic categories. To do so, I built a program that bounces through Spotify’s metadata to produce multiple readings of the idea of genre in relation to a particular artist. Spotify offers a fairly robust API, and there are a number of […]
From the announcement: Annotations are an important part of what authors do with Scalar, and indeed, an important part of the platform’s overall feature set…But until now, Scalar users creating image annotations have been required to manually set their coordinates, width and height. Not anymore! We’ve just finished integrating the open source plugin, Annotorious into […]
From the post: A few weeks ago the Scholars’ Lab went on a field trip to the School of Architecture’s “FabLab” to check out a project Chris Gist and Melissa Goldman had been working on, a sand table that has a projector and a Kinect connected to a computer that projects a topology on to […]
From the post: This post is a follow-up to last year’s How to Create Topic Clouds with Lexos, where I showed how Lexos can be used to visualise topic models produced by Mallet. From time to time, colleagues have wondered whether it would be possible to use Lexos to perform cluster analysis on the topics […]
Links to vital records, Holocaust resources, name origins, and Jewish genealogy collections. Read the full post here.
From the introduction: Have you ever felt that the world is more and more about technology and you are somehow left behind? Have you ever wondered how to create a website but have never had enough motivation to start? Have you ever thought that the software world is too complicated for you to even try […]
From the GitHub repository: Humaniformat is a human names parser for R. With it, you can parse names, distinguishing salutations, suffixes, and first, middle and last names. Humaniformat recognises compound last names (and preserves them) from a wide range of cultures, although the name format itself is somewhat Western-centric (it assumes, for example, that first name […]
From the announcement: The completion of the third phase of the Greek Manuscripts Digitisation Project is as good a time as any to release to this world a handy spreadsheet containing details of the Greek manuscripts held by the British Library. The spreadsheet includes a brief description of the content and links to Digitised Manuscripts […]
