Omeka in the Wild: Practicing What We Preach
Over the past few years, in consultations with a wide variety of projects I have increasingly identified opportunities where Omeka would make an excellent platform for digital curation. However, aside[…]
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Digital Humanities at Queen’s University Belfast
The QUB Digital Humanities Initiative is sponsored by The Library and Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities (ICRH) at Queen’s. They are collaborating to foster, develop and build skills and[…]
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Network in Canadian History and Environment
I was involved in the outset of NiCHE developing and deploying the first iteration of the portal. NiCHE is a confederation of researchers and educators who work at the intersection[…]
Text Analysis Portal for Research TAPoR (1)
TAPoR 1.0 is a portal for: Collecting texts – TAPoR lets you keep a library of references with links to original documents on the web or elsewhere Analyzing texts –[…]
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Omeka on the Big Screen
We did a soft launch of the Sir Robert Hart 1835-1911 digital exhibition on the amazing 42inch touchscreen installed in the Library. Although not planning for making the product available to the[…]
Keeping the Power of Visualisation in Mind
The rather innocuously titled ‘Visualising helps make sense of data‘ by Teresa Tocewicz crossed my radar this morning. It’s a short, succinct piece that doesn’t raise any contentious ides, instead[…]
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Devising Best Practises in Digital Curation
Trevor Owens has shared a thoughtful discussion looking towards considering a Style Guide Digital Collection Hypertexts. In it he considers what could become shared and best practise approach to the[…]
1891 Canadian Census Digitisation Project
1891 Census Project originated in 2003 and makes available a digitised sample of individual records from the 1891 Canadian census. Objective: My Role: Technical Contributor Outcome: Assisted with a variety[…]
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1891 Canadian Census Digitisation Project
1891 Census Project originated in 2003 and makes available a digitised sample of individual records from the 1891 Canadian census. Objective: My Role: Technical Contributor Outcome: Assisted with a variety[…]
Mapping Vice and Ethnicity
A very fine post by Susan Schulten at Mapping the Nation inspired me to cite it and comment briefly. Mapping vice in San Francisco pulls a selection of maps from the fabulous David Rumsey[…]