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 […]
A milestone: my list of Digital Humanities GIS projects has now topped 100 entries. It currently stands at 103 entries, the latest to be added being the Google-sponsored Routes of Sefarad, mapping Jewish Heritage in Spain, and Placing Literature, an ambitious attempt to crowd-source the locations of novels. The original aim was to catalogue academic […]
I’ve written on making forms accessible before in the WCAG series, but I thought I’d document some real examples using the work that I’ve been doing. This one is a fairly simple, but important example especially since we’re moving to PDA (patron driven acquisitions). http://dhnow.org/14zLIqp
In previous posts we downloaded a single book from the Internet Archive, calculated word frequencies, searched through it with regular expressions, and created a permuted term index. In this post, we extend our command line methods to include automatically downloading an arbitrarily large batch of files and building a simple search engine for our collection of sources. […]
Digital Preservation Tool Grid. This tool grid is the product of researching digital preservation tools by Digital POWRR team members in early 2013. The information included is accurate to the best of our knowledge, but some information may be incorrect or have changed. We learned the information from various sources including tool websites, contacting the […]
http://laurientaylor.org/2013/06/15/new-scalar-webinars-register-now/ Curious about Scalar? Sign up for a free webinar! Following up on their recent Beta release, the Scalar development team is offering free online webinars to help new users and the curious learn the platform more easily. The “Intro” webinars will cover the basics of Scalar: fundamental concepts, a review of existing Scalar books, […]
WordSeer is a web-based text analysis and sensemaking environment for humanists and social scientists. It’s a a research project at UC Berkeley’s Computer Science Division and School of Information.
