At THATCamp CHNM and THATCamp Philly 2012, Interactive Mechanics presented on the topic of mobile devices meets digital humanities. How can these rich projects port to smartphones? What technology is out there, and what would work best for your project? Mobile Devices and Digital Humanities – Interactive Mechanics.
So you want to make some charts in R, but you don’t know where to begin. This straightforward tutorial should teach you the basics, and give you a good idea of what you want to do next. Getting Started with Charts in R.
Most Pixels Ever: Cluster Edition (MostPixelsEverCE) is a library for extending Processing sketches to multi-node tiled displays. This library makes it possible to render interactive Processing sketches across distributed computing systems on many displays. It is intended for tiled display systems, but works in many other types of environments. With simple modifications, a sketch can be rendered…
The Folger is delighted to announce the launch of Folger Digital Texts. These are reliable, expertly edited, and free digital Shakespeare texts for use by researchers. Starting from the Folger Editions of Shakespeare’s works edited by Barbara Mowat and Paul Werstine,Folger Digital Texts uses XML to create a highly articulate indexing system. Researchers can read the plays…
Since 2010, the Wellcome Library has been digitising a significant amount of material related to the history of genetics. As part of this project, we’ve been working with Digirati, our software partners, to develop a tool to display all of our digitised content, including cover-to-cover books, archives, works of art, videos and audio. The outcome of…
This book contains materials developed over several years for Stanford Computer Science courses covering web minion, network analysis, and large-scale data-mining.
Juxta Commons is a new, online space powered by the Juxta Web Service that lets you collate sets and share visualizations with your peers. Juxta Commons.
Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: How to Download Multiple Records using Python. I’m pleased to announce my latest endeavour to teach historians how to program computers in aid of their research has been published and is freely available on the Programming Historian 2 website. Full Lesson: Downloading Multiple Records Using Query Strings The…
To assist libraries in informing the public about e-book lending practices, the American Library Association (ALA) released today the “ALA E-book Media & Communications Toolkit,” a set of materials that will support librarians in taking action in their communities. E-Book Media and Communications Toolkit | Transforming Libraries.
Crowdcrafting is a free, open-source crowd-sourcing and micro-tasking platform. It is a joint effort between theOpen Knowledge Foundation and Citizen Cyberscience Centre, It enables people to create and run projects that utilise online assistance in performing tasks that require human cognition such as image classification, transcription, geocoding and more. Crowdcrafting is there to help researchers, civic hackers…