University of Maryland, Networked Intelligentsia
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Michael Mahemoff writes: To be effective, Rails cache sweepers need to be more fully understood. They know no standard, so you must employ art. He goes on: Sweepers observe both your models and your controllers, but most workarounds focus on their controller nature. Importantly: the sweeper must be explicitly added as an observer. Even more Read the rest…
Dropbox is a great way to organize files and have information stored online without cluttering computer space and completely accessible from any internet connection. There are a multitude of ways that Dropbox has helped me stay organized fo…
Inspired by the animated wind map that was posted a little while ago, professional programmer Jeff Clark has explored how people move about in a city. The result, titled Movement in Manhattan [neoformix.com], visualizes the speed and direction of Twit…
TextGrid (http://www.textgrid.de) is a platform for scholars in the humanities, which makes possible the collaborative analysis, evaluation and publication of cultural remains (literary sources, images and codices) in a standardized way. The central idea was to bring together instruments for the dealing with texts under a common user interface. The workbench offers a range of [...]
Rob Blades (my student) and I are in the process of submitting an article concerning our Looted Heritage project. The gist of the article is a discussion of our workflow and the kinds of patterns that may be observed when data is available freely & openly. Ideally, this would include academic papers in journals. For [...]
Congratulations to Dennis Denisoff, Lorraine Janzen Kooistra and the whole team at The Yellow Nineties Online, the newest peer-reviewed resource in NINES! This project, which brings in more than 400 new objects, is dedicated to the study of The Yellow Book and other aesthetic periodicals that flourished in Great Britain in the 1890s. Visit the site [...]
Or would that be an utopian ideal of a library? At any rate, this article by Nicolas Carr from the Technology Review is worth a read for its careful consideration of Google Books, the DPLA and the underlying assumptions and…
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About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. …
Greetings fellow HASTACers! I’m in Chicago where I”ve been an organizer and educator for over 20 years. I’ve been dedicated to civic education, protecting the commons and activiating people to take leadership roles in public life. Locally, I’m probabl…
I’m delighted to say that Digital Humanities Quarterly has been launched: Welcome to the first issue of Digital Humanities Quarterly: a new, online, open-access journal published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations. This issue has bee…
A longer post will follow with details, but I’m so pleased with the results I’m putting some stuff up right now. In my first year seminar class on digital antiquity which just ended, we’ve been experimenting with 123D Catch to make models of materials conserved at the Canadian Museum of Civilization (thanks Terry & Matt!). [...]
CityDashboard [citydashboard.org] aggregates various spatial data of about 8 different cities around the UK, and displays this data on a dashboard and a map.
Developed by the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis of the University College London, it e…
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Scholar Class 2012
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