The images in this post all come from Columbia University’s very large assortment of commercial stationery (featuring architectural illustrations): the Biggert Collection.
The vast majority of the images below have been cropped, cleaned and variously …
From INFOdocket & The Guardian : "The Bodleian Libraries … and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitized…
From INFOdocket & The Guardian : "The Bodleian Libraries … and the Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (BAV) said on Thursday they intended to digitize 1.5 million pages of ancient texts and make them freely available online. The libraries said the digitized…
Barbara Fister in her Library Babel Fish blog at Inside HigherEd articulates nicely some of the unresolved questions regarding ebook usage, in particular as it regards libraries. I particularly appreciate her antipenultimate paragraph : "So now book publishers want to…
Barbara Fister in her Library Babel Fish blog at Inside HigherEd articulates nicely some of the unresolved questions regarding ebook usage, in particular as it regards libraries. I particularly appreciate her antipenultimate paragraph : "So now book publishers want to…
What do Magna Carta, Shakespeare and the Lindisfarne Gospels have in common? Not to mention Homer, Beowulf, the books of Henry VIII and some of the world’s oldest Bibles? They are all cared for by experts in the British Library’s Medieval and Earlier Manuscripts Section. This blog publicises our exhibitions, digitisation projects, acquisitions and other news. Follow us on Twitter: @blmedieval
So we’re running the world’s first global awards, celebrating excellence in data visualizations, infographics and information art. Yeah! Kind sponsors Kantar have laid $30,000 on the table to reward the winners and celebrate the field. Who are the judges? Excitingly, we’re super-honoured to welcome Brain Eno to our judging panel. He joins senior curator at [...]
Using hand-recorded shipping data from the Climatological Database for the World’s Oceans, history graduate student Ben Schmidt mapped a century …
So, I’m slipping in under the wire to wish everyone a happy National Bookmobile Day! To celebrate, I thought I’d aggregate some (just some!) of my posts about bookmobiles from my other blog, bookmobility.org:
Scholar Class 2012
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These drawings date from 1982 (thirty years ago) when I as working as a consultant to Alan Kay at Atari. I came up with these scenarios of how an intelligent encyclopedia might be used and commissioned Glenn Keane, a well-known Disney animator to rende…
April Loebick / April 10 2012 / 1:57 pm
The University Press of North Georgia (UPNG) recently won a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Digital Start-Up grant for $24,923. This NEH Level I funding supports the press’s explori…
Hey everyone! So, what did you do last weekend? ‘Cause the fabulous Melody Dworak and I hosted a THATCamp as part of our conversation-creating HASTAC goal at the University of Iowa. If we’re slightly loopy(-ier than usual) this week, that’s why.
Schola…
Last month I looked at using kernel densities to analyse film style, and to follow-up this week’s post will focus on another simple graphical method for understanding film style: the empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF). Although it has a grand sounding name this is a very simple method for getting a lot of information very [...]
We are looking forward to the NITLE Symposium, which will take place April 16-17 in Arlington, Virginia. As befits the conference theme, “Inventing the Future: Innovative Models and Practices in Liberal Education,” the Symposium is experimenting wi…
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