Hullo from Rotterdam, where I am at DISH2011, “the conference about digital strategies for heritage”. There are over 550 delegates at the Rotterdam WTC, across a wide range of libraries, archives and museums, predominantly across Europe. Its a really i…
It’s been a productive couple of months here at the studio, so much so that it’s been difficult to find the time to blog about projects as they happen. We’ve added some new people, for one thing, and started to really get our hands around the operation…
As we all know blockbusters are the bane of the film industry: a recent article in The Telegraph quoted Steven Spielberg’s opinion that contemporary Hollywood has produced few films that will still be viewed in 20 years time. The article can be read here. I think that in general, Spielberg has a point about the [...]
Quick announcement: I have a handful of signed Visualize This copies available in case you’re looking for a gift for that data geek cousin or you’re up for some learning over the holidays. I only have a limited supply, so grab a copy before they’re gone. And of course, you can still get an untarnished [...]
During the riots in London this past summer, a lot of information spread quickly about what was going on. Some of that information was true and some was not so true. The Guardian explores this spread of information on Twitter, and how fact and fiction seem to reveal themselves on their own: A period of [...]
Neighborhood Scoreboards [neighbourhoodscoreboards.com] aims to include some healthy social competition in the monitoring of household energy consumption. Instead of keeping energy monitors private and within the confines of the family living room, Ne…
A demo of the grammatical search and exploration features of WordSeer, applied to the task of exploring the vocabulary of the concept of female beauty in shakespeare.
“Metadata and Digital Pedagogy: Surfacing Romantic-era Book Histories with Captions,” part of the panel called “Communicating Book Histories with Metadata” with Lindsey Eckert (Toronto) and Laura Mandell (Texas A&M). Presented at HASTAC V, …
Call me Ahab: I’m the leader of the merry band of pirates about to set sail on the Foreign Literatures in America (FLA) project. If there’s one thing I like most about this project, it’s the white whaleness of it all: none of us is sure exactly where we are . . .
A couple weeks ago I published Why You Should Bury your Sign Up Button and got some really interesting feedback and comments from folks. One of the more interesting bits was a follow-up post by the folks at Zurb who had experienced the exact same phenomenon…when they took away the “sign up” button and instead [...]
A new GIS data engine has come along - SABINS (School Attendance Boundary Information System) and seems much like the incredibly rich dataset at NHGIS (National Historical GIS). Tell your Education department members or others…
I have a confession to make: I’ve never cared much about museums on the Web. I’m focused on the onsite, in-person experience. When smart people talk about digital museums and virtual experiences, I nod and compartmentalize it as someone else’s bailiw…
The future scenario for non-Roman script domain names
Chris Dillon, UCLDH’s Research Associate in Linguistic Computing, gave a presentation at the National Committee for Information Resources on Asia conference at the British Lib…
As part of their series on road accidents, BBC News mapped every recorded death on the road in Great Britain, from 1999 to 2010. That’s 2,396,750 road crashes. As you’d expect, the map looks a lot like population density, but check out the videos, which show twelve years of data compressed as if it were [...]
Given the larger history of slavery in America, the South has always figured prominently into the geographic settings of African American literature since the publication of William Wells Brown’s Clotel in 1853. However, the results of our study rev…
