Category: Resources

A short video from Europeana on what linked open data is and why it is a good thing both for users and content providers.

The kit is aimed at libraries, archives and other cultural intuitions staff and gives basic guidance on how to organize an event. It includes some tips for organizing an event, as well as free handouts, videos and web resources that staff can use. Also provided is a list of additional resources, including some format-specific advice.

The service is ultra simple in purpose and function. It provides: Information on licenses for open data, open content, and open-source software in machine readable form (JSON) A simple web API that allows you retrieve this information over the web — including using javascript in a browser via JSONP

The interim report summarizes “our interviews with research support professionals who support the field of history.”  

By Daniel Chamberlain Director, Center for Digital Learning and Research

You Asked For It: Four Exciting New Viewshare Features « The Signal: Digital Preservation. Last week we quietly launched several significant improvements to Viewshare, our free and open platform for cultural heritage organizations to create interfaces to digital collections. There are a ton of major and small additions to the software, but I wanted to […]

Anvil Academic aims to provide platform for digital scholarship | Inside Higher Ed. Two well-known organizations are teaming up with a handful of colleges and universities to try to change that by building a flexible platform where digital humanists could have their research published and certified that the work has passed through well-respected editorial gantlets. […]

Memex 1.1 » Blog Archive » The School of Data. Here’s a fantastic initiative by the Open Knowledge Foundation. (Disclosure: I’m on the OKF’s Advisory Board). What lies behind it is an awareness that there’s a huge — and growing — skills gap in data-analysis, visualisation, etc. At this stage, the OKF is seeking volunteers […]

American Museum of Natural History Presents Digitized Manuscripts of Charles Darwin | American Museum of Natural History. In celebration of Darwin Day, the American Museum of Natural History is officially unveiling the first phase of the Darwin Manuscripts Project—the most comprehensive catalog of Charles Darwin’s scientific manuscripts ever compiled. The project is an ambitious online […]

Say you’re interested in patterns of communication between individuals who are members of multiple organizations (like for instance historical societies), or artefact types across multiple sites. You might like to map the network between these individuals and those organizations to understand something of how information flows in that world, how social norms permeate, or ideologies […]