Home – Map Warper. Welcome to WorldMap WARP, a tool based on the MapWarper platform being developed by Entropy Free. The tool is for digitally aligning (geo-rectifying) scanned historical maps to match today’s precise maps. Visitors can browse maps others have geo-rectified or upload their own to rectify. Any map which has been rectified here can be brought […]
bookworm Open Library bookworm updated for searching Open Library. bookworm is a collaboration between the Harvard Cultural Observatory, Open Library, and the Open Science Data Cloud. It enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.
Minnesota launched an online catalog of open-source books last month and will pay its professors $500 each time they post an evaluation of one of those books. (Faculty members elsewhere are welcome to post their own reviews, but they won’t be compensated.) Minnesota professors who have already adopted open-source texts will also receive $500, with […]
CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012. CNN transcript collection, 2000-2012 Thanks to the Internet Archive and CNN, thirteen years of transcripts, about a gigabyte compressed, is available to download as one file. For over a decade, CNN (Cable News Network) has been providing transcripts of shows, events and newscasts from its broadcasts. The archive has been maintained and […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012. The PeDALS project has released Persistent Digital Archives and Library System: Final Project Report to the Library of Congress, April 19, 2012 . Here’s an excerpt: The Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS) research project was […]
The Open Annotation Core Data Model specifies an interoperable framework for creating associations between related resources, annotations, using a methodology which conforms to the Architecture of the World Wide Web. Open Annotations can easily be shared between platforms, with sufficient richness of expression to satisfy complex requirements while remaining simple enough to also allow for […]
VIAF (Virtual International Autority File) is an OCLC service — built in cooperation with national libraries and other partners — that virtually combines multiple LAM (Library Archives Museum) name authority files into a single name authority service.
GeoDia (jee-oh-DEE-uh, short for “geodiachronicity”) is intended to provide a simple, intuitive way for people to visualize the temporal, geographic, and material aspects of ancient Mediterranean civilizations.
DCW will be a weekly space to find syntheses of field-specific material, to read about and discuss trends, hot-button topics, highlights, lowlights, and everything in between. A place, in other words, to make a narrative out of an info stream.
Web Archiving Arrives: Results from the NDSA Web Archiving Survey « The Signal: Digital Preservation. The NDSA Content Working Group, one of the five working groups of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance focuses on identifying content already preserved, investigating guidelines for the selection of significant content, discovery of at-risk digital content or collections, and matching orphan content with […]
