AWOL is a project of Charles E. Jones, Tombros Librarian for Classics and Humanities at the Pattee Library, Penn State University AWOL began with a series of entries under the heading AWOL on the Ancient World Bloggers Group Blog. I moved it to its own space here beginning in 2009. The primary focus of the […]
OpenNLP provides trained models for identifying Parts of Speech (POS). It also provides trained models for Named Entity Recognition (NER), the ability to identify common structures such as names, locations, organizations, among other things. These models are useful for general language processing requirements, but I am working in the domain of literature, and additional knowledge […]
The Praxis Program at UVA Scholar’s Lab has released Ivanhoe, a WordPress theme that enables classroom role-playing games. Read the announcement here.
Accepted papers for the Association for Computing Machinery altmetrics14 conference are now available. Find them here.
The Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media announces the release of its newest digital tool, the PressFoward Plugin, a tool for aggregating, curating and publishing content from the web. See full announcement here: Announcing the PressForward Plugin!
At EFF, we are big fans of open wireless. But we also know that operators of open networks sometimes worry that they could be legally responsible if people use their networks to engage in copyright infringement. We’ve put together a short white paper that generally explains the scope and limits of operator liability for the […]
New Web Program Allows Free Image Download for Non-Commercial Use (New York, May 16, 2014)—Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, announced today that more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use—including […]
Good things come to those who wait. Today we are officially launching the Londonmapper website, a project that I started working on following the completion of my PhD in 2011. Over the past 2 1/2 years we developed the scope of the project which aims to become a new Social Atlas of London, a project […]
From Miriam Posner’s Blog: After I wrote my original “How Did They Make That?” post, on some common types of DH projects, I got to thinking about whether there might be ways to help people reverse-engineer digital projects on their own. I used a talk I gave at CUNY as an excuse to think of […]
Developers from the New York Times have released some open source software meant for displaying and managing large digital content collections, and doing so client-side, in the browser with JS. Developed for journalism, this has some obvious potential relevance to the business of libraries too, right? Large collections (increasingly digital), that’s what we’re all about, […]
