Category Archives: references

This category are for any references that we document/record/collect in the project. It is also applied by default to what is pulled in and published via the postalicious plugin from the Yahoo Pipes aggregator.

Some Interesting Things (September 26th – November 6th)

Posted on November 6, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for September 26th through November 6th: No such pipe, or this pipe has been deleted – This data comes from pipes.yahoo.com but the Pipe does not exist or has been deleted. New Humanities | New Humanities … Continue reading →

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Search, Stories, Discovery

Posted on October 8, 2012 by Adrian

From the Cowbird make over: Today, it’s my great pleasure to introduce you to the new Cowbird — simpler, faster, more minimal, more essential, and, we think, even more beautiful. … But what we’re most excited about is handwriting — a simple way for you to turn your own handwriting into a font, and use it in your stories. Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Things (August 24th – August 24th)

Posted on August 24, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for August 24th from 05:54 to 05:54: dhistory:: The front page – Tim Sherratt's quick effort using Trove's API to get front pages from a very large archive of newspaper front pages, and then provide ways … Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Things (August 2nd – August 16th)

Posted on August 16, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for August 2nd through August 16th: Digital Curation Bibliography: Preservation and Stewardship of Scholarly Works – Creative commons licenced book which is about digital curation of scholarly work. Digital Curation Resource Guide – list of courses, … Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Things (July 20th – August 1st)

Posted on August 1, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for July 20th through August 1st: Introducing Scripto: a Tool for Community Transcription – Training the Digital Curators of Tomorrow – TextGrid: TextGrid – TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and … Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Things (July 2nd – July 19th)

Posted on July 19, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for July 2nd through July 19th: All Our Ideas – A Suggestion Box for the Digital Age – All Our Ideas is a platform that enables groups to collect and prioritize ideas in a transparent, democratic, … Continue reading →

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Crowdsourcing and participation…

Posted on July 6, 2012 by David

Two posts by Trevor Owen on crowdsourcing in the cultural heritage context and keeping sight of the ‘meaning thing’: Crowdsourcing Cultural Heritage: The Objectives Are Upside Down Meanification and Crowdscafolding: Forget Badges

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Pearltrees

Posted on July 4, 2012 by Adrian

Pearltrees , bookmark things you like, it makes links between what you curate (the ‘pearls’) – unlike, say, Pinterest which is more like a big flat album – it recognises a visual scale as you can move in and out of your pearl trees, it talks to Twitter and Facebook (both ways), and you can share your pearls and trees with others. … It lets me curate into my stuff things that others have found. Continue reading →

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The Past is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film

Posted on July 3, 2012 by Adrian

From an email list (posted by Janna Jones, Northern Arizona Uni): The Past is a Moving Picture: Preserving the Twentieth Century on Film Almost all remnants of culture—past and present—degrade over time, whether sculpture or scrolls, painting or papyrus, books or clay tablets. … Janna Jones provides a stunning, tour-de-force analysis of the major assumptions and paradigmatic shifts about history, cinema, and the moving image archive, one that we ignore at our peril in the midst of the overwhelming rush toward digitisation. Continue reading →

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Some Interesting Things (June 25th – June 30th)

Posted on June 30, 2012 by Adrian

These are my links for June 25th through June 30th: Abstract — Council on Library and Information Resources – An Inquiry into Modes of Existence – Bruno Latour, modes of existence, web project. “Archives in Context and as Context” in … Continue reading →

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