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 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 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!
Continue readingIn an effort to make a space for digital historians to communicate and collaborate, I created a “Commons in a Box” site: digitalhistorians.org/.
Continue readingIn American naval history, officer promotions have gotten a lot of offhanded comments but little substantive analysis (one exception I just found: Waiting for Dead Men’s Shoes, by Donald Chisholm, a book I look forward to reading at greater length). The commonplace assertion is something like this: After the War of 1812, it became almost impossible for […]
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I'll admit it, what I spent my day creating is completely useless, but it was fun to make! Click the link to get to the full five page comic. <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/jq39aglfp29erub/Retro.pdf">https://www.dropbox.com/s/jq39aglfp29erub/Retro.pdf</a> To make this, I used an ipad and its camera, the app called Comic Life, and dropbox. The whole flow is easier on […]
Continue readingSo I did it: I made a beta of a contract repository. It’s a work in progress, but check it out, free your contracts by contributing them, and leave suggestions in the comments. Oh, and favorite this if you want to vote for it in the Maker’s Challenge! For some context, see my earlier post […]
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