Resource: Papers at altmetrics14 Conference
Accepted papers for the Association for Computing Machinery altmetrics14 conference are now available. Find them here.
Category: Resources
Resource: The PressForward Plugin
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!
Resource: Open WiFi Is Not a CopyCrime: EFF’s Primer on Open WiFi and Copyright
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 […]
Resource: Metropolitan Museum Initiative Provides Free Access to 400,000 Digital Images
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 […]
Resource: Introducing Londonmapper
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 […]
Resource: How Did They Make That? The Video!
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 […]
Resource: Open Source Tools for Viewing Large Collections in JS in the Browser
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, […]
Resource: Principal Component Analysis, Step by Step
In this article I want to explain how a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) works by implementing it in Python step by step. At the end we will compare the results to the more convenient Python PCA()classes that are available through the popular matplotlib and scipy libraries and discuss how they differ. The main purposes of […]
Resource: Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive
Attached are the slides from my recent talk, “Ballad Sheet Forensics, Preservation, and the Digital Archive,” the final presentation at the Huntington Library’s Living English Broadside Ballads conference, April 4-5, 2014 (http://www.huntington.org/uploadedFiles/Files/PDFs/broadside_conf.pdf). The talk focused on the need to reconsider our understanding of what constitutes the “information” that we are trying to capture and/or preserve […]
Resource: Using Census Survey Data Properly
The American Community Survey, an ongoing survey that the Census administers to millions per year, provides detailed information about how Americans live now and decades ago. There are tons of data tables on topics such as housing situations, education, and commute. The natural thing to do is to download the data, take it at face […]