Category: Resources

The Wellcome Library announces the free availability of over 100,000 images from their historical holdings. See the announcement here.

The Walters Art Museum announces the release of a new API for use with the museum’s internet repository. See the announcement here.  

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.

The latest episode of the Social Media Clarity podcast features Dr. Paul Resnick from the University of Michigan. Read the full post here. Download this MP3

The Center for Public History and Digital Humanities and Cleveland State University  is pleased to announce the newest tour on the Cleveland Historical website and mobile app. See full announcement here.

/end #carouselWrapper The New York Philharmonic Digital Archives has released 520,000 pages marked by Philharmonic musicians. See the archive here.

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, […]

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 […]

The Internet Archive has started a Historical Software Collection. This is part of a larger Internet Archive Software Collection that has a number of collections. What is cool is that they have an in-browser emulator that allows you to play with historical software like Visicalc or Atari’s E.T. in the browser. This is a Javascript […]

In previous posts we started with the URLs for particular online resources (books, collections, etc.) without worrying about where those URLs came from. Here we will use a variety of tools for locating primary and secondary sources of interest and keeping track of what we find. We will be focusing on the use of web […]