In the last session we took the metadata games app pulled in a bunch of images from astronomy books up on project gutenberg (It’s easy to find the image files in their books) and stood it up as a way to crowdsource identification of images from these books. Read about metadata games here. In the session our group worked up some details on […]
Continue readingAs part of the Powerpoint Unhinged challenge, Matt Gold, Zach Coble and myself have put together a presentation/performance based on a title by Matt Gold. We’ll see how it goes.
Continue readingstorystudy.omeka.net/ For the Maker Challenge, I began an Omeka archive named Story Study. As part of my graduate studies at Kean University in New Jersey, I am researching fairy literature and folklore in order to produce a fantasy fiction manuscript which explores and celebrates the motifs we so enjoy in storytelling today. The biggest challenge […]
Continue readingIn the rich soup that is digital humanities, there are a few ingredients that lend a special flavor. One of these is collaboration: far from being taboo, collaboration is the encouraged mode of working. Another ingredient is open source: we borrow and build on each other’s code and data to make even more interesting things. A […]
Continue readingI propose a site like Thingiverse.com for scale models of historical objects. Like the Aurora History Boutique, but you can print the items, rather than buy them. Perhaps not even a separate site, but use thingiverse, but encourage and develop a set of tags and/categories that raise the awareness of historical scale models. Cause […]
Continue readingI created this visualization using D3. I’d never even used HTML before yesterday (Patrick Murray-John can attest that I was asking him how to get started). So, no real labels yet. My hope is to eventually use visualizations to play with concepts.
Continue readingOver the last 3 years I have been the unofficial keeper of the THATCamp Google Documents folder. After each THATCamp I could keep track of, I tried to collect all the Google Docs available publicly into a public folder. Later I began to archive them as a zip file to avoid losses from people accidentally […]
Continue readingHey everyone! Here is my post for the Maker challenge! I was really inspired by the limericks that everyone shared for the first session so I created a website that shares all of the poetry that I have written for THATCamp. It is all written about my experiences at the camp! I am still working […]
Continue readingMy entry for the Maker Challenge is WP DPLA, a WordPress plugin for displaying related items from the Digital Public Library on your blog posts. The DPLA has lots of cool content, and WP DPLA is a way to help your readers discover and explore that content. It takes the tags you’ve assigned to your […]
Continue readingPeople have requested a way to update plugins from the admin side of Omeka for a while. This approach takes a round-about approach, depending on GitHub. In the dashboard, you now have a panel like this The “Update plugins” page gives: Click Update….aaaaannnndddd….. Ta-daaa!
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