- ARCHIVE / Cultural Informatics
- KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO
This is the second appointment with the knowledge representation seminar we’re having at CCH (Kings College, London). If you are in the area and are interested in taking part in this, please drop me an email. We’re looking at these topics from the specific perspective of the digital humanities, but even if your take on […]
- Visualizing Wittgenstein’s Tractatus
Shameless self-plug: some time ago I made an alternative visualization of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus. No special reason, just because I wanted to do some experimentation with a text I was already working on. Well today I sort of run into it by change, and I really liked it! Isn’t that a good feeling when you […]
- Social Reference Manager: Mendeley
A colleague mentioned the existence of Mendeley to me – a new and free reference manager. I’ve stuck with Papers for a while and was really really happy with it, but I have to admit that Mendeley seems to have quite a few cool features there. For example: 1) it’s free (and hopefully it’ll remain […]
- NLP for Classical Studies
If you’re into humanities computing and NLP, you might want to check out the eAqua project. eAqua stands for ‘Extraction of structured knowledge from ancient sources’, and it’s a project that combines various text mining techniques to extract information for ancient texts. The eAqua-project aims at generating specific knowledge from ancient texts and will provide […]
- Roman Port Networks project
The Roman Port Networks Project is a collaboration between 30 European partners, examining the connections between Roman ports across the Mediterranean. The project has received financial support from the British Academy (BASIS) and the University of Southampton (School of Humanities, Department of Archaeology and School of Electronics and Computing Science). From the website (the bold […]
- WordSift: visualize text
WordSift [http://www.wordsift.com/] is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully – as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help create an opportunity to talk and play with language. This web2 application can be pretty useful… […]
- Layer the web with Blerp!
I really dig the concept – but after playing with it for a little I think that the whole thing is still too convoluted (lots of forms to fill in, popups etc.). Ideally, I’d just like to go to a website and start off the discussion, using their terminology, annotate it. Anyways, definitely worth having […]
- MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections
MIT student Anita Lillies shows off her project Music Box:
- Humanities Computing and web2.0
Last week I spent two interesting days in London, at the Epistemic Networks and GRID Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities workshop. I went there representing PhiloSURFical and Cohere, but unfortunately due to technical reasons the fliers I’ve prepared to let this community know about our work were not handed out on time. The printers […]
- Zotero – is the browser enough to do research?
Zotero, a personal research assistant, directly into your browser. When I was told about it, was quite impressed. I’ve been dreaming of disposing of the ugly looking Endnote – and the feature list of zotero seemed pretty attractive! Automatic capture of citation information from web pages Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web […]