Category: Resources

Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH). Special issue on corpus and computational linguistics, philology, and the linguistic heritage of humanity.

Yale U. Press Digitizes Stalin’s Massive Personal Archive | Publishing Perspectives. Over the last two years Yale University Press and the Russian State Archive for Social and Political History have been quietly digitizing Stalin’s personal archive, consisting of thousands of documents, letters, and books, that passed through the Soviet leader’s hands. Vadim Staklo, the editor overseeing […]

Digital Pedagogy Roundup – First Half of 2012 » Roger T. Whitson, Ph.D. For those of you who don’t know, I was a Brittain Fellow at Georgia Tech for two years. First-year fellows participate in a postdoctoral seminar called dped, which is short for digital pedagogy. Rebecca’s request looked like a great opportunity for me […]

Taking Notes at #THATCamp This past weekend was THATCamp Prime 2012 at the George Mason’s Center for History and New Media, and thanks to a few cancellations, I got the chance to join in the fun and rub elbows with 100+ DHers. Like many other attendees, I drove home with a browser full of links and a host […]

Digital Scholarship has released the Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works. In a rapidly changing technological environment, the difficult task of ensuring long-term access to digital information is increasingly important. This selective bibliography presents over 650 English-language articles, books, and technical reports that are useful in understanding digital curation and preservation. It covers digital […]

||| 臺灣大學數位典藏研究發展中心 (Research Center for Digital Humanities)|||. The Research center for Digital Humanities is committed to creating a complete digital research environment. The center also conducts research and continues to digitally preserve Taiwan’s important, unique and delicate cultural artifacts and historical resources. After the initial task of digitalization is complete, the center’s resources will be […]

Computer Programming and Literacy: An Annotated Bibliography » Nettework. With the recent uptick in the “everyone should code” movement, it seems that everyone’s now talking about computer programming as a new form of literacy. The terms by which people refer to the concept vary, but the central idea is shared: computational literacy; computational thinking; procedural […]

R, the open source statistical software environment, is powerful but can be a challenge to approach for beginners.  

The digital revolution brings us all kinds of cool tools that make it easier to study, teach and present history. Interactive timelines are one of my favourites. Compared to their analogue versions, the benefits are clear: you can zoom in and out on time, minimize and maximize text boxes, add pictures and video, cooperate, share, […]

The Archaeological Museum of Salonica holds one of the largest and most diverse collections of ancient sculpture in Greece. The register, which is kept in the Cast Museum of the University of Salonica along with the photographical archive, contains about 1500 entries. The objects were newly measured, described and recorded. The sculptures were photographed from […]