Digital Projects Directory. A Directory of past and current digital projects in UK museums, galleries, libraries and archives. This directory is intended to provide a source of reference, to encourage collaboration and to promote innovation.
Thoughts on Public & Digital History by Adam Crymble: Tricks for Transcribing High-Contrast Historical Reproductions. If you spend enough time as a historical researcher, you’re bound to come across the black blob. The blob – also referred to by its more technical name: “those letters I can’t make out because of the stupid contrast levels […]
Lev Manovich » Blog Archive » new article: “Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections”. Lev Manovich. Media Visualization: Visual Techniques for Exploring Large Media Collections. Presents the theory and the techniques of media visualization used in our lab, with the analysis of the examples.
Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as […]
Newly peer-reviewed and updated: The Swinburne Project. Congratulations are in order for editor John Walsh and the team at The Algernon Charles Swinburne Project at Indiana University. Although a preliminary phase of the site had already been aggregated by NINES, a new review was scheduled after the scope of the project had expanded in the past few […]
DigitalKoans » Blog Archive » Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. JISC has released Future Proofing: Enabling Practical Preservation of Born-Digital Records. Here’s an excerpt: The results show that is it possible to build a low-cost, practical solution that addresses immediate preservation problems, makes use of available open source tools, and requires minimal IT […]
Releasing the collection on GitHub | cooper-hewitt labs. Late last week we released the Cooper-Hewitt’s collection metadata as a downloadable file. And in a first for the Smithsonian, we dedicated the release to the public domain, using Creative Commons Zero.
Timeline Tutorial: Introduction. Using the extraordinary Exhibit and Timeline scripts written by MIT’s SIMILE project and the flexible power of Google Docs spreadsheets, it’s now possible to build custom, interactive, and searchable timelines for use in your research and your teaching.
Accessible Dropdown Menus | Terrill Thompson. A couple weeks ago at the 27th Annual CSUN International Technology and Persons with Disabilities Conference I gave a presentation on accessible dropdown menus. In that presentation, I walked through several examples of accessible menu techniques (and a few not-so-accessible ones). All the examples are available on my Dropdown […]
Nelson Mandela archive launches digital treasure trove | World news | guardian.co.uk. The poignant missive is among more than 1,900 documents, photographs and films of South Africa‘s first black president that were published online on Tuesday by Google and the Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory.
