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Biodiversity Heritage Library: Taming the Wild Social Media Animals: Facebook, Twitter, Blogger… Oh My!

August 1, 2015
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Maria Chiochios, Outreach Impact Strategy Intern at Biodiversity Heritage Library, discusses her experience at "evaluating BHL’s outreach strategy and impact" and how it helped her to "gain a deeper knowledge about the…

HUMlab gives perspective to Nature

August 1, 2015
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In an interview with Umeå University's HUMlab Blog Ant Spider Bee editor Finn Arne Jørgensen discusses how "digital technology plays a major role in how people perceive and interpret nature."…

Day of DH 2015

May 19, 2015
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Today was Day of DH 2015, hosted this year at the Laboratorio de Innovación en Humanidades Digitales (LINHD) of UNED in Madrid. As stated by the project website the goal is to combine…

Music for a String Quartet Made from Global Warming Data: Hear “Planetary Bands, Warming World” | Open Culture

May 12, 2015
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OpenCulture features a new work by cellist Daniel Crawford and geographer Scott St. George called “Planetary Bands, Warming World” and based data on global temperature variations. You can see their previous…

A Beautiful Drone’s Eye View of Antarctica | Open Culture

May 12, 2015
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Open Culture links to a wonderful drone footage of Antarctica by filmmaker Kalle Ljung (@kljung). Source: A Beautiful Drone’s Eye View of Antarctica | Open Culture

The Topography of Envy

May 12, 2015
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by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg Last week, enthusiastic praise of the new US Geological Survey historic topographic maps viewer topoView has made the rounds of the Internet. The response to…

Resource: Karma – A Data Integration Tool

May 1, 2015
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Linked data are an important asset in the digital humanities. Reposted from Digital Humanities Now. Karma is an open source tool that makes it easy to convert data from a variety…

By the People, For the People: Assessing the Value of Crowdsourced, User-Generated Metadata

May 1, 2015
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Interesting article on Digital Humanities Quarterly on the value of user-generated metadata. Manzo, Christina, Geoff Kaufman, Sukdith Punjasthitkul, and Mary Flanagan. “‘By the People, For the People’: Assessing the Value of…

Digital Public History — Bringing the Public Back In

May 1, 2015
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Serge Noiret (@sergenoiret) discusses the public dimension of the digital humanities on the Public History Weekly. [...] the digital humanities provide methodologies and practices that, analogous to the sciences, are…

Humanitarian Mapping Program To Help Nepal Earthquake Recovery Efforts

April 28, 2015
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Mary Beth Griggs reports at Popular Science about a crowdsourced mapping project aimed at helping relief workers in Nepal in the aftermath of the earthquake. An organization called the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team…