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Resource: Downloadable data sets [OCLC]

Downloadable data sets [OCLC]. DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 14 August 2012—OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable file—representing nearly 1.2 million resources—contains approximately 80 million linked data “triples,” the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information. “This is an important step for […]

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Resource: Teaching Digital Humanities (Syllabus)

Teaching Digital Humanties: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject |. Teaching Digital Humanities: Digital methods elective: PhD Coursework Subject By CRAIG | Published: AUGUST 16, 2012 I have started teaching in a PhD coursework subject here at the University of Melbourne; the first year that this type of subject have been offered in PhD research here. And as part […]

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Resource: Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies

Over 1,000,000 Torrents of Downloadable Books, Music, and Movies | Internet Archive Blogs. The Internet Archive is now offering over 1,000,000 torrents including our live music concerts, the Prelinger movie collection, the librivox audio book collection, feature films, old time radio, lots and lots of books, and all new uploads from our patrons into Community collections (with more to follow). To download the Torrent of the files […]

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Resource: Online GIS Using ArcGIS.com

Online GIS Using ArcGIS.com | Spatial Humanities. Difficulty: Easy This is a multi-step process that will enable you to add data to a webmap, embed the webmap in your own website, and/or view the webmap on your smartphone using the free ESRI app. Required: Free ESRI personal account, shapefile of your study area (or a .csv, […]

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Resource: Google Scholar ‘Updates’ a big step forward in sifting through the scientific literature

Wow – Google Scholar ‘Updates’ a big step forward in sifting through the scientific literature | Impact of Social Sciences. I logged on to Google Scholar last week and discovered something very new. This “updates” thing was not there earlier in the day.  So I clicked on the link and got to this page: Scholar Updates: […]

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Resource: 20 questions (and answers) about MOOCs

I was asked by the excellent Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach to speak to her PLP class about MOOCs, and, while we had what i thought was an excellent forty minute chat, there were tons of comments that i never had the chance to address. As i look over the questions they asked, I see that in answering […]

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Resource: The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects

The Key Questions of Cultural Heritage Crowdsourcing Projects | Trevor Owens. To sum up my series of posts on different considerations for crowdsourcing in cultural heritage projects I thought it would be helpful to lay out a set of questions to ask when developing or evaluating projects. I think if a project has good answers to each of these […]

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Resource: Thematic Child Theme Development: Suggested Resources

Thematic Child Theme Development: Suggested Resources | Practical E-Records. I am preparing to dive into deeper customization, but before doing that, I would like to list some resources that I found helpful in learning about Thematic and in customizing the site.  Then, I will describe some of the steps I took to actually customize the […]