Raw is a tool we developed to create vector-based visualization based on data. Primarily conceived as a tool for designers and vis geeks, Raw aims at providing a missing link between spreadsheet applications (e.g. Microsoft Excel, Apple Numbers, OpenRefine) and vector graphics editors (e.g. Adobe Illustrator, Inkscape, Sketch) View Resource Here.
Way back in 2006, I thought “It’s a shame there is no PHP library for parsing MARC records!“, and given that much of my most recent coding experience was in the PHP realm, I thought it would be a good way of contributing to the world of code4lib. Thus File_MARC was born in October 2006. […]
The transition to interacting with your computer on the command line can be a little jarring at first if you’re accustomed to working in an environment dominated by windows, cursors, buttons, and other GUI pleasantries. Really, though, these graphical features are often just façades for functionality that can be achieved with more flexibility and speed […]
A spider (or ‘crawler’ or ‘bot’) is a program that downloads a page from the Internet, saves some or all of the content, extracts links to other webpages, then retrieves and processes those in turn…Here we will develop a surprisingly simple Bash script to explore and visualize a tiny region of the WorldCat Identities database. […]
Spotlight on the Digital is a co-design project which is exploring barriers to the discovery of digitised resources. To this end we have been drawing up a list of useful literature surrounding these topics. We hope that you might be able to help us by adding to the list as we feel the crowd will […]
Cite a blog post, YouTube video, tweet, Facebook post, or email. See Chart Here
These are Geoffrey Rockwell’s conference notes on a Digital Environmental Humanities Network workshop. This workshop was help Sept. 7th and 8th, 2013 in Montreal and organized by Stephanie Posthumus and Stefan Sinclair. There isn’t a web site for the workshop, but there is a web site for the emerging area, Canadian Environmental Humanities. philosophi.ca : […]
The Geospatial Historian is a tutorial-based open access textbook, modeled on the Programming Historian, designed to teach humanists practical digital mapping and GIS skills that are immediately useful to real research needs. Geospatial Historian | beta website.
My publisher Bloomsbury Academic made available Open Access edition of my new book Software Takes Command. The edition contains complete text of the book. It uses a new digital publishing software from Issuu. This link will take you directly to the book (you may need to wait a few seconds before it loads): Software Takes Command […]
Many students tell me that in order to get started with digital humanities, they’d like to have some idea of what they might do and what technical skills they might need in order to do it. Here’s a set of digital humanities projects that might help you to get a handle on the kinds of […]
