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Resource: Data and visualization blogs worth following

About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. Some blogs are no longer in commission, and lots of new blogs have sprung up (and died). Today, I went through my feed reader again, and here’s what came up. Coincidentally, 37 blogs came up again. […]

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Resource: New MLA Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship

MLA: New Guidelines for Evaluating Digital Scholarship | laurie n. taylor. The MLA Executive Council has recently approved a revision of the association’s guidelines for evaluating digital scholarship.Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media, composed by the Committee on Information Technology, addresses the changes in scholarly communication and the digital humanities in […]

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Resource: TEI Boilerplate

TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight solution for publishing styled TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) P5 content directly in modern browsers. With TEI Boilerplate, TEI XML files can be served directly to the web without server-side processing or translation to HTML.

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Resource: Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation

Miso: An open source toolkit for data visualisation. Your online visualization options are limited when you don’t know how to program. The Miso Project, a collaboration between The Guardian andBocoup, is an effort to lighten the barrier to entry. While the goal is to build a toolkit that makes visualization easier and faster, the first […]

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Resource: People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project

People Mashing: Agile digital preservation and the AQuA Project – White Rose Research Online. Manual quality assurance (QA) of digitised content is typically fallible and can result in collections that are marred by a variety of quality and access issues. Poor storage conditions, technology obsolescence and other unforeseen problems can also leave digital objects in […]

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Resource: How to map with Google Fusion Tables

Google Fusion Tables (GFT) is a freely accessible tool for hosting and managing data tables, as well as creating visualizations and maps online. See the GFT tour and also theGFT Help Page. Requires a free Google account (use a regular Google account; avoid using a limited-access Google Apps account issued by an old school). Goal of this […]