Parsing CSV Data with Ruby Computers offer us a wonderful opportunity to automate and ease some of the tasks associated with data cleanup and preparation in the humanities. After a conversation with a researcher at CESTA on Friday, I thought about a problem he was confronting with a spreadsheet of data he is collecting that contains many […]
History of Missiology Boston University Theology Library’s collection of missionary biographies, reports, sermons and theologies provides a rich resource for the study of missiology. Building on early informal efforts to digitize portions of the collection, the Library participates in the Open Content Alliance and collaborates with the Internet Archive. This portal provides online access biographical […]
Free access to all Cambridge Journals content from 2012 « CJO « Cambridge Journals Blog. From 22nd January – 5th March, all Cambridge Journals content published in 2012 will be available for free on CJO. All you have to do is register. There’s a lot you can do in 6 weeks; it’s long enough to watch the […]
Guide to the Paper Dolls Collection mid 19th century. The dolls in this collection appear to date from the mid-19th century. Their exact date and place of origin are unknown. The first Western paper dolls appeared in 18th century Paris during the reign of Louis XV. Several sources assert their existence in 9th century Japan. […]
The Digital Walters – Digitized Walters Manuscripts. The Walters Art Museum houses an extraordinary collection of some 850 illuminated manuscripts from diverse cultures around the world. Full digital surrogates of many of these manuscripts are available on this website. We hope you enjoy them and incorporate them into your work and projects.
The Catholic Pamphlets Collection | Catholic Research Resources Alliance (CRRA) Blog. The Catholic Pamphlets collection at the University of Notre Dame contains a wide variety of pamphlets, booklets, and other documents pertaining to Catholicism or the Church in some way. The collection is located at the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections at Hesburgh Library, […]
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I recently presented a brown bag session on accessibility and the digital humanities for the Alabama Digital Humanities Center. The sources referenced in my session, along with some related resources, are listed below (crossposted from the ADHC blog). They are also available via the Diigo collaborative bookmarking site: mbfortson’s adhc_a11y Bookmarks on Diigo. Accessibility & the Digital […]
Introducing version control & git in 1.5 hours to undergraduates – Coffee|Code : Dan Scott. Our university offers a Computer Science degree, but the formal curriculum does not cover version control (or a number of other common tools and practices in software development). Students that have worked for me in part-time jobs or summer positions have […]
The Research Data Curation Bibliography includes selected English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding the curation of digital research data in academic and other research institutions. For broader coverage of the digital curation literature, see the author’s Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works,which presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical […]
