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Resource: Mississippi Freedom Project Interviews

On January 22, 2014, George A. Smathers Libraries and the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program will release the first round in a series of oral history interviews with civil rights veterans of the Mississippi freedom movement for UF’s week of celebration surrounding Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. The collection, “The Mississippi Freedom Project,” will be […]

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Resource: LiAM Lists

Three lists from a forthcoming LiAM Guidebook are available, one of linked data tools, one of linked data sites, and one of linked data citations.

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Resource: An OCR normalizer for English texts after 1700

I’m sharing the code I use to correct OCR in my own research. I’ve shared parts of this before, but this is the first time I’ve made any effort to package it so that it will run on other people’s machines. If you’ve got Python 3.x, you should be able to clone this github repository, […]

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Resource: The Future of Accessibility with BrailleSC.org and BrailleRISE

We set out to create a free and easy‐to‐use plugin for WordPress that creates Braille texts from WordPress posts, allowing any WordPress site to share the products of their text‐based projects with this often‐neglected audience of readers. Originally, we planned to extend the use of Anthologize—a free and open source plugin for WordPress that currently […]