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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
