Welcome to Maker Librarian! | Maker Librarian. Having been involved in Maker Culture since 2009, I’ve taken a lot of pleasure in watching the maker and hacker movement intersect with libraries and was excited to play a small role in making this happen. And in the last year interest seems to have exploded! This is where…
Scholars’ Lab. For part three of our release parade, we’re showcasing the 1.0.0 release of the FedoraConnector plugin forOmeka. Fedora Commons is a digital repository management system. It’s used by libraries to manage and scale their online repository and digital assets and collections. As such, it’s often used by larger institutions; however, this isn’t aimed at those organizations….
Scholars’ Lab. Continuing our roll-out of Omeka plugins we’ve been working on here at the Scholars’ Lab, I’m pleased to announce the BagIt plugin for Omeka. BagIt is a specification by the Library of Congressfor creating containers of files with metadata. However, the files don’t actually have to be in the container. There is a fetch.txt file, which lists URLs for content…
Scholars’ Lab. The Scholars’ Lab is pleased to announce the first release of the SolrSearch Omeka plugin. SolrSearch allows you to replace Omeka’s default search with Solr. Solr is a standard, popular, open source, fast text search engine server. It handles hit highlighting, date math, numeric aggregation functions (mean, max, etc.), indexing for 33 languages, replication, and many, many…
GitHub Training. Free GitHub classes and Office Hours GitHub offers free, short, topical online classes about GitHub, Git, and the union of these two technologies. We rotate through various topics every few months and are constantly looking to introduce new topics and concepts into the mix. Office Hours are free events following our free classes that allow any…
Digitising your collection – Part 1: Project Planning. This is the first in a series of posts on starting a digitisation program. In the series we’ll be talking about: project planning; technical specifications; handling the archives; scanning tips; file storage, and; metadata and access. Much of this advice is based on experiences at State Records…
“Text and Genre in Reconstruction: Effects of Digitalization on Ideas, Behaviours, Products and Institutions,” edited by Willard McCarty, is now available from Open Book Publishers.
This search facility allows the server-side API to be queried and the results refined and passed to both Zotero and Voyant Tools. It also allows you to use a more like this facility to identify linguistically similar trials.
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.
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.