http://disc.library.emory.edu/ows/ Emory University Library has collected over ten million tweets from the Occupy Wall Street Movement, beginning on 13 October 2011. While tweets are public, they are not archived or available unless a third party collects them. With Emory’s collection, scholars can better understand the relationship between a movement and social media. In an age of digital […]
Using Git locally for a Subversion-based project (like BuddyPress) | Teleogistic. In the past, I’ve written extensively about using Git with WordPress projects. I’ve focused primarily on Git as the primary development channel, with SVN (in this case, plugins.svn.wordpress.org) used for distribution only. In contrast, I use Git for all my local development on the BuddyPress […]
How Can A Digital Humanist Get Tenure? | HASTAC. What counts for tenure for those in the digital humanities? This is a persistent question in any new field (not that digital humanities is “new” at this point but its methods are not the “scholarly monograph published by a university press” widely recognized by colleagues in […]
Helping the World to Teach | Research Blog. In July, Research at Google ran a large open online course, Power Searching with Google, taught by search expert, Dan Russell. The course was successful, with 155,000 registered students. Through this experiment, we learned that Google technologies can help bring education to a global audience. So we packaged up the technology […]
New Article by Matt Might: CESK machines can concisely and efficiently model the semantics of functional languages like the lambda calculus. It’s less appreciated that CESK machines can do the same for object-oriented and imperative languages too. This post explores a CESK machine for a high-level, object-oriented bytecode inspired by the Dalvik virtual machine for […]
This updated post is written for cultural heritage professionals seeking a quick-start guide for those interested in learning more about what the digital humanities are and what kinds of projects, tools, and possibilities are open and available. I also want to contribute to the current conversation (which you can join as well), that seeks to […]
This is part 3 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in GeoServer and Neatline. In part 1 of this series, we used ArcMap to convert a static image into a georeferenced .tiff file. In part 2, we post-processed the file with gdal to remove the […]
This is part 2 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in Geoserver and Neatline. Check out part 1, which covers rectification in ArcMap. In the first part of this series, we brought a static image into ArcMap and converted it onto a georeferenced .tif file. In this article, […]
I am very pleased to announce the open source release of our SiteStory transactional web archiving solution. The solution is compatible with the Memento “Time Travel for the Web” framework and its current implementation can be used to archive Apache web servers.
Out of the box, Neatline (our recently-released framework for building geotemporal exhibits) can be used to create geo-temporal exhibits based on “modern-geography” base-layers – OpenStreetMap, Google satellite and street maps, and a collection of beautiful, stylized layers from Stamen Design. For historical and literary projects, though, one of Neatline’s most powerful features is its deep integration with Geoserver, […]
