Sheila Brennan, Associate Director of Public Projects at the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University, shares her cheat sheet from talks she gave on the four P’s of digital project outreach at the NEH Office of Digital Humanities Project Directors’ meeting and the recent One Week | One Tool summer institute. The […]
Using a demo reconciliation service developed by Michael Stephens as a model, Ted Lawless put together a basic reconciliation service for the JournalTOC data that queries the JournalTOC API and translates the response to the format that OpenRefine is expecting. The code is available on Github.
We’ve organized all the Points of View columns on data visualization published in Nature Methods and provide this as a guide to accessing this trove of practical advice on visualizing scientific data.
Taxonomies and other classification schemes are omnipresent in Information Architecture. It recently occurred to me though that there is a great deal of confusion with regards to what a taxonomy is, and how it should be designed, constructed, and managed. Often this is simply because people have different backgrounds and intents when dealing with taxonomies, […]
My colleague Oliver Duke-Williams and I had a paper on ‘Joint and multi-authored publication patterns in the Digital Humanities’ accepted to the recent Digital Humanities conference in Nebraska. After the talk a number of people contacted us to say that our findings would be useful for them when they sit on tenure, promotion and hiring committees […]
This month, I shifted gears from installation and configuration of my local Infinite Ulysses site to the first new coding work on the project (read more about the project itself here). I’ve captured a brief tech review of the existing tools and projects that are helping me through example or incorporation.
For the first time, users of the Guide will be able to do full-text searching of its contents as well as move freely through them using the dynamic table of contents. Guide to Documentary Editing.
This project is really for technical staff or developers who work with The Museum System (TMS). The code is a C# .NET WCF service application that allows access to curatorial data using JSON web services.
This is a collection of open-source museum projects active on github along with a list of “featured projects” hopefully of interest to the broader community.
In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular expressions, simple search engines and named entity recognition. In this post we focus on a preliminary issue: converting images of texts into text files that we can […]
