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Computer Chips Can Now Be Made From Wood

June 9, 2015
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"The woods are lovely, dark, deep, and filled with potential computer components." Source: Computer Chips Can Now Be Made From Wood

Swim Through The Seven Seas With Google Fish View

June 9, 2015
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"In honor of World Oceans Day on June 8, Google Maps teamed up with XL Catlin Seaview Survey, NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, and the Chagos Conservation Trust to…

What’s that bird? New website can identify by your photo

June 8, 2015
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google_ad_section_start Your computer just became an ornithologist. In a breakthrough for bird watchers and the avian-curious everywhere, the Visipedia research project and the Cornell Lab of Ornithology have collaborated on…

Forbidden Data: Wyoming just criminalized citizen science

May 15, 2015
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In an article in Slate, Justin Pidot reports: "Wyoming doesn’t, of course, care about pictures of geysers or photo competitions. But photos are a type of data, and the new…

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

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…