Happy Smurfy family.
A Harvard professor, Robert Darnton, has recently made a plea to the American public for the creation of a National Digital Library, which is “a comprehensive library of digitized books that will be easily accessible to the general public.”
In the UK, the idea of such a library has been floating around for a while, but [...]
This isn’t well-advertised, and it even takes a while to find it on the page, but it’s possible to subscribe (for free) to the eLanguage online journals. The value of a subscription is that you’ll get email alerts when a new issue is published—allow…
I created a software installation for the 2010 Whitney Gala. The software was projected onto sixteen two-sided panels suspended from the ceiling on the third floor of the museum and above hundreds of attendees, carefully worded speeches, and a John Legend performance. My sincere thanks to Adam, Christiane, Gina, Rachel, Bronson, Lauren, and Dave. While [...]
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterio…
One of the first photos to be featured here on NINES was an early daguerreotype of San Francisco. About 50 years later, on April 18th, 1906, the city suffered a major earthquake followed by an extensive fire, documented in this panoramic shot from the Merchant’s Exchange building. Click this link to browse an assortment of [...]
What, Threadless haven’t heard of natural feature tracking yet?Getting one will set you back by $18, but every pixel there is worth its weight in gold.
Post update – the original video was pulled down, but luckily was uploaded again, and some of my questions were answered (in red)I have so many questions about the next video, and no answers -Is it real? yes.Is it an official Star Wars game? probably.H…
We are pleased to invite you to the next UCL Digital Excursion which will take place at the UCL SLADE School of Fine Art on Tuesday 16 November 5.30-7.30 pm.
The Slade Centre for Electronic Media (SCEMFA) was established in 1995 and fo…
Open Source CMS For Displaying Portfolios – The Secretary
31. October, 2010
CASA Lib’s ArrayUtil: Sorting, Searching and Manipulation of Arrays Made Easy
29. October, 2010
Multi-touch input sensor using an Arduino Mega
26. October, 2010
Last week we were installing our first deployment of iPads as gallery interfaces – and they went live on Friday night. Now in the newly refreshed Ecologic exhibition – open right now – you can play a game called WaterWorx deployed to a table of 8 iPads. WaterWorx is intended to convey the difficult of [...]
Each US state is fitted out with an array of state symbols, from birds and crustaceans over colors and poems to tartans and toys. This map takes care of a glaring omission in that long list of attributes, trivial and otherwise (1), and provides a…
Possible the most difficult task in a job such as mine is navigating cultures that often don’t realise the existence of other cultures. It is possible to go to a university in Australia, come out with a bachelors degree, and have never met an his…
After a short break, here’s another weekly linkfest:”AR is not going to work well for most things but it’s going to be very good for certain uses. Right now I’m very keen at trying to understand what those things might be”. Tish Shute interviews Ch…
Ray was in Japan in October to serve as Visiting Research Professor in Digital Humanities at Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto (http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/).
While there, he delivered two talks, titled “A Vision for the Future of Humanities, in our Discipline and Beyond,” and “Research in Electronic Textual Culture: Understanding the TEI Community, Exploring Manuscript Culture, and the Implementing New [...]
