- ARCHIVE / Cultural Informatics
- Pypapers: a bare-bones, command line, PDF manager
Ever felt like softwares like Mendeley or Papers are great, but somehow slow you down? Ever felt like none of the many reference manager softwares out there will ever cut it for you, cause you need something R E A L L Y SIMPLE? I did. Many times. So I’ve finally crossed the line and […]
- Interesting read: ‘SciSci’ i.e. the science of science
Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory. This article discusses the impact and methods of ‘science analytics’ that is the quantitative analysis of scientific outputs. Full Article Available here: http://barabasi.com/f/939.pdf The science of science (SciSci) offers a quantitative understanding of the interactions among scientific […]
- Another experiment with Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Spent some time hacking over the weekend. And here’s the result: a minimalist interactive version of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus. The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus is a text I’ve worked with already in the past. This time I was intrigued by the simple yet super cool typed.js javascript library, which simulates animated typing. After testing it out a bit […]
- Towards an ontology for philosophy
I enjoyed watching a recent presentation by Barry Smith about ontology engineering and in particular its application in the field of philosophy itself. The presentation was hosted by the InPho team at Indian University, whose ongoing work based on creating an ontological backbone for Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy has drawn the attention of many. Barry […]
- Take control of your digital annotations with ResQuotes.com
Over the last weeks I had a chance to complete a personal project I’ve been working on for a while: www.resquotes.com. This is a personal information management site that allows one to collect and organise snippets of text (‘highlights’) made while reading digitally. It’s an alpha release, still much untested and rough around the edges, […]
- Annotating the web with Scrible
Scrible is an online tool that allows one to add layers of annotations to webpages, save them in the cloud and share them with others. I had a quick go at it, it’s maybe a bit fiddly to do some of the annotations but the app is definitely feature rich and with lots of potential […]
- Annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture: using faceted browsers in the DH
The Bliss Bibliographic Classification is a ‘fully faceted classification scheme that provides a detailed classification for use in libraries and information services of all kinds, having a broad and detailed structure and order’. Last week I was invited to give a talk at the annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture, held here in London at UCL […]
- Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland… one step at a time
Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland… one step at a time! This is, in a nutshell, what users can do via the Dynamic Connections Cloud application, a prototype tool I’ve been working on recently, in the context of the People of Medieval Scotland project (PoMS), which was launched last week at the University of […]
- Wittgenstein Tractatus and the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
What do the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein have in common? Definitely not much, at first sight. But the moment you realise that Wittgenstein was so fascinated with logic that he wanted to organise his masterwork in the form of a tree structure, well, you may change your mind. The javaScript […]
- Crowdsourcing interpretation with Prism, a new software from the Scholar’s Lab
Prism is a new online tool by the Scholars’ Lab at the university of Virginia. In a nutshell, Prism lets users independently highlight and annotate passages from a text, for then mashing up all of these highlights into a new version of the text where the ‘importance’ of certain passages is rendered graphically via colours […]