LearnDST.richmond.edu | . LearnDST is an instructional tool for creative people interested in learning the 5-step process (writing, recording, searching, producing, and publishing) of digital storytelling. It was developed to meet the “just-in-time” training needs required to create digital stories in the context of IT fluency. Learn more about digital storytelling (DST) here and learn how DST […]
discontents – The new QueryPic (or what a difference an API makes). It seems a bit late to be introducing the newest version of QueryPic. Folks are already using it to explore the contents of digitised newspapers made available through Troveand Papers Past. Some, like the National Library of New Zealand, Andrew S. Bowmanand the Carnamah Historical Society are already blogging about […]
The abstract I submitted last fall declared that I’d draw uponAutobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 to show that scholars hold the means of production of editions more immediately now than in any prior decade since the 1470s. I’m trained as a medievalist and a manuscript scholar, and this is not hyperbole. I’ll touch upon some […]
The book “The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture”, edited by Melanie Dulong de Rosnay and Juan Carlos De Martin as an output of the Communia Thematic Network which took place between 2007 and 2011 and is at the origin of Communia Association, is out in all formats (hardback, paperback, and digital editions) […]
This year’s Museums and the Web features four published papers on Linked Open Data as well as a workshop for getting your hands dirty with data.
The April/May 2012 issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology includes a special section entitled “Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovations and Integration.”
This Google Document spreadsheet lists different transcription tools and their features and is open to additions. Transcription Tool List.
NINES welcomes our newest peer-reviewed resource, The Correspondence of James McNeill Whistler, edited by Margaret F. MacDonald, Patricia de Montfort and Nigel Thorp. Originally a project of the Centre for Whistler Studies, the project is now supported by University of Glasgow. This online edition includes the Letters of James McNeill Whistler from 1855-1903, as well as those of Anna McNeill […]
Resources for Teaching and Learning Text Encoding. Interested in teaching or learning TEI? The slides, lecture notes, and other materials here were developed by the WWP for the workshops we teach, but they can also be a starting point for self-guided study. They are made available here for public reuse under a Creative Commons license. […]
Visualizing Emancipation. Visualizing Emancipation is an ongoing mapping project, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, that sheds light on when and where men and women became free in the Civil War South. It tells the complex story of emancipation by mapping documentary evidence of black men and women’s activities–using official military correspondence, newspapers, […]
