Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Mediawork: Writing Machines

T.r. Young’s wonderful syllabus for Sociology. Wonderful ideas for how to structure assignments and grading. gfclcIndex

http://scholar.google.com Google introduces a new service for academics. Weighted towards sciences now, but more to follow. Search on books and papers, including citations. What will this do to the acadmic world, I wonder?

Here’s an interesting O’Reilly book: Real World Web Services Will Iverson Publisher: O’Reilly ISBN: 0-596-00642-X, 222 pages, $29.95 US, $43.95 CA http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/realwws/ “The core idea behind “Real World Web Services” is simple: after years of hype, what are the major … Continue reading →

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 18, No. 358. Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 06:59:11 +0000 From: John Unsworth Subject: developer’s wiki From Roy Rosenzweig: http://echo.gmu.edu/toolcenter-wiki/ ECHO TOOLS CENTER: The number of historians interested in using digital tools to facilitate their work … Continue reading →

Turning the Pages The most beautiful page turner app I’ve seen. I only wish it were less expensive to implement!

Digichromatography: Restoring Prokudin-Gorskii’s Photographs: 100 year old Color Photographs According to the site: “Born in St. Petersburg and educated as a chemist, Prokudin-Gorskii devoted his career to the advancement of photography. In the early 1900s, he developed an ingenious technique … Continue reading →

Coming in November. Looks to be quite useful. Have sent in request to library to order it. A Companion to Digital Humanities – Book Information

A new journal that features research and practice in IT in education. Looks like it’s a blog, too. Innovate – October/November 2004

‘Recasting the Past: Digital Histories’ The aim of the conference is to explore how the ever increasing number and variety of digital and electronic sources have changed the way in which history, and historical sources, are created, selected, researched, taught, … Continue reading →