Best name for a session. Ever.
The idea being a series of short overviews of digital projects or code. Here's what was discussed:
World Digital Library, a joint project with UNESCO and Library of Congress. The objectives of the World Digital Library are to promote international and inter-cultural understanding and awareness, provide resources to educators, expand non-English and non-Western content on the Internet, and to contribute to scholarly research. Accessible in seven different languages.
Coding on New York Public Library's Digital Gallery. Trying to find the policy, code that makes this as accessible as possible to everyone. What's the api going to look like that allows digital access to the collection?
History Wired from the Smithsonian is about data visualization. This is a mashup using a mapping engine created for Smart Money magazine. Also from the Smithsonian, The Object of History website that created high school curriculum units about objects at the American History Museum.
Introduction to Omeka by Jeremy Boggs. Omeka is a web platform for publishing collections and exhibitions online from our own Center for History and New Media. Create collections of digital information. The Object of History (see above) is an example of a site created with Omeka. Also, Making the History of 1989.
American Social History online. Built a site with tools for digital historians, including collaboration tools. This site focuses on finding, gathering, and collecting distributed and disparate scholarly content in American Social History. Works with Zotero, Google Maps. Includes word clouds, federated search, etc.
Typographia is a very interesting project from an assistant professor a NC State. It's an exploration of Raleigh, NC through typography. He took pictures around town and digitized them with text. Worth a look.
JGAAP stands for Java Graphical Authorship Attribution. It is a Java-based,modular program for textual analysis, text categorization, and authorship attribution. It is trying to figure out who wrote what.
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