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Resource: Open Monograph Press from the Public Knowledge Project

Open Monograph Press is an open source software platform for managing the editorial workflow required to see monographs, edited volumes and, scholarly editions through internal and external review, editing, cataloguing, production, and publication. OMP will operate, as well, as a press website with catalog, distribution, and sales capacities.

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Resource: Paper Machines extension for Zotero

Paper Machines is an open-source extension for the Zotero bibliographic management software. Its purpose is to allow individual researchers to generate analyses and visualizations of user-provided corpora, without requiring extensive computational resources or technical knowledge.

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Resource: Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding

Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. For versions of these materials that were […]

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Resource: Stemmaweb from the Tree of Texts Project

We are pleased to present Stemmaweb, which was developed in cooperation with members of the Interedition project and which provides an online interface to examining text collations and their stemmata. Stemmaweb has two homes: http://treeoftexts.arts.kuleuven.be/stemmaweb/ (the official KU Leuven site) http://byzantini.st/stemmaweb/ (Tara’s personal server, less official but much faster) via The Tree of Texts | […]

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Resource: Understanding OCR Materials available from Chronicling America, Library of Congress

Partly because of NDNP’s participation in the NEH’s Digging Into Data program, as well as the interest from other individuals and organizations [the Library of Congress] recently started making data dumps of the OCR content available. This same OCR data is available as part of the batch data mentioned above, but the dumps provide two […]

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Announcement: Europeana metadata now available under CCO Public Domain

The digital portal Europeana opens up its dataset of over 20 million cultural objects for free re-use. The massive dataset is the descriptive information about Europe’s digitised treasures. For the first time, the metadata is released under the Creative Commons CC0 Public Domain Dedication, meaning that anyone can use the data for any purpose – […]

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Resource: A guide to using Twitter in university research, teaching, and impact activities, from London School of Economics

Available to download as a PDF or view on Issuu. We have put together a short guide answering these questions, showing new users how to get started on Twitter and hone their tweeting style, as well as offering advice to more experienced users on how to use Twitter for research projects, alongside blogging, and for use in teaching.

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Resource: The top 20 data visualisation tools

The top 20 data visualisation tools | Feature | .net magazine. One of the most common questions I get asked is how to get started with data visualisations. Beyond following blogs, you need to practise – and to practise, you need to understand the tools available. In this article, I want to introduce you to […]