by Beth Daley Only 17 days to go until the Europeana Annual General Meeting and Digital Strategies for Heritage conference (DISH2013) in Rotterdam (2-3 December)! The agenda for the Europeana AGM has now been set. The day includes chance for existing Task Forces to get together, then for everyone to meet up to discuss the […]
by Mitch Fraas Today I’m teaching a workshop on using “screen scraping” in the digital humanities. No workshop is really useful without practical examples so last week I decided to try out my screen scraping chops on an exciting new database of book history data. The Kislak Center at Penn (where I’m Scholar in Residence) is quickly becoming […]
by Isabel Galina A principios del 2012 escribí una entrada titulada El dónde y cómo de las Humanidades Digitales en donde busqué presentar algunas de los programas de estudio, centros, publicaciones, congresos y asociaciones más destacados del campo. Pese a que el objetivo era tratar de incluir iniciativas de todo el mundo, predomina el trabajo realizado en Estados Unidos […]
by Nicholas Taylor I’m inclined to blame the semantic flexibility of the word “archive” for the fact that someone with no previous exposure to web archives might variously suppose that they are: the result of saving web pages from the browser, institutions acting as repositories for web resources, a navigational feature of some websites allowing for browsing of past content, […]
by Kent Anderson I recently finished reading a long essay by Daniel Allington, a sociologist, linguist, and book historian living in the UK. He’s been following the debates about open access (OA) in the UK quite closely, and has written a well-informed piece detailing the hopes, limitations, and mandates associated with OA. The essay, entitled, “On open access, […]
by Maximilian Heimstaedt Im Klassenraum starren Schüler widerwillig auf abgewetzte Wandkarten – zu Hause können sie ihre Blicke kaum von Smartphone, Tablet-PC und Laptop lösen. Das Team von HistoGlobe hat die Zeichen der Zeit erkannt und sich zur Aufgabe gemacht, Geschichte zu beleben und in 3D erlebbar zu machen. Das sechsköpfige Team aus Weimar ist sich sicher: Geschichte, […]
by Caitlin Dempsey he New York Public Library Labs (NYPL Labs) has posted on Github the code to its open source map-vectorizer project. NYPL Lab’s map-vectorizer project is seeking to automate (“like OCR for maps”) the process of extracting polygon and attribute information from old scanned maps. The code was developed with the purpose of extracting building information from […]
by Domenico Fiormonte The Digital Scholarly Editions Initial Training Network (DiXiT) offers 12 Marie Curie fellowships to early stage researchers (ESRs) for a period of 3 years and 5 Marie Curie fellowships to experienced researchers (ERs) for a period of 12 to 20 months. Fellowships are now open for applications. For details visit:http://dixit.uni-koeln.de/fellows.html About DiXiT DiXiT (Digital Scholarly […]
by Phil Davis A report detailing an experiment in providing open online access to scholarly monographs was released last Tuesday in celebration of Open Access Week. The results? Providing free access to online books had no effect on sales (positive or negative), nor did it have any effect on citations. Free access did increase online usage, however. I wrote […]
by Butch Lazorchak Digital mapping information is an essential part of the backbone of our economy through the now-widespread consumer applications that allow us to track our location, find a nearby restaurant or guide us on a journey. While largely invisible to the casual user, the geospatial data that underpins these applications allows us to know […]
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