blog Running interactive Jupyter demos with mybinder.org
May 2019
The online tool mybinder.org allows you to turn a Git repository into a collection of interactive notebooks with one click.
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2015
blog Is wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge?
Sep 2015
Is Wikipedia a valid source of scientific knowledge? Many would say yes. Others are still quite skeptical, or perhaps just cautious about it. What seems to be the case, though - and this is what this post is about - is that Wikipedians are increasingly including references to scientific literature, and when they do so, they do it correctly.
2012
blog Crowdsourcing interpretation with Prism, a new software from the Scholar's Lab
Jun 2012
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, then mashes up all of these highlights into a new version of the text where the 'importance' of certain passages is rendered graphically via colors and font sizes.
blog The role of Digital Humanities in a natural disaster
May 2012
As part of the New Directions in the Digital Humanities series this week, we had a very inspiring presentation from Dr. Paul Millar, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Cinema and Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury (NZ). The talk focused on the CEISMIC project, with which Millar and his team intended to 'crowdsource' a digital resource to preserve the record of the earthquakes' impacts, document the long-term process of recovery, and discover virtual solutions to issues of profound heritage loss. (P.S. This entry was cross-posted on the DhWip blog.)
2011
blog Working toward meritocracy in Italy
Jan 2011
It's no news that thousands of Italian researchers have left their home country in order to pursue their careers; what is news, however, is that we now have a scientific study shedding light on this phenomenon. It was conducted by the Via Academy, an association dedicated to statistical analyses of the research outputs of Italians (published on the TIS reports website).
2010
blog A bookmarklet for searching delicious
Jan 2010
This has been long overdue for me. A way to quickly search delicious.com without relying on third-party apps (which often you have to pay for). And it's got to be super simple too: something like a bookmarklet that you click on and then takes you there. Just one of those things you never have the time to do....
blog Links 4/1/10
Jan 2010
Links on miscellaneous topics from the last week or so:
2009
Sep 2009
Just wanted to flag up SO-Clone, an interesting project on googleCode that wants to replicate the fundamental functionalities of Stack Overflow.
blog Social Reference Manager: Mendeley
Aug 2009
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.
blog Share and browse links with MultiUrl
Jun 2009
MultiURL allows you to combine multiple links into one short link that you can quickly and easily share with your friends, colleagues, on your blog or any other website. It makes the process of sharing multiple links at once so much easier, quicker and safer.
Jun 2009
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.
blog Layer the web with Blerp!
May 2009
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 a go with Blerp, it's something that may develop further in the near future.
2008
blog Social Innovation Camp in London
Mar 2008
The Social Innovation Camp aims at bringing together some of the best of the UK and Europe's web developers and designers with people at the sharp end of social problems. Unfortunately the deadline for sending your 'ideas' is over - but the idea of a camp like that is awesome!
blog Humanities Computing and web2.0
Feb 2008
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 at Imperial College didnt want to work for me :-). Too bad.. I managed anyway to spread the word a bit, and the reactions have been very very positive.
2007
blog Love trippin'
Nov 2007
No double meaning here - Ijust love getting on a train and finding myself in new places and situations all of a sudden. Rediscovering life. So I just got back from Canada, KCAP (I'm gonna write something about it soon) and I was trying to plan a trip with my brother for the next xmas break. Well - let's use the web - Ithought, as he's not physically around. So I checked out the available services, and to my surprise the best one is yahoo-trip-planner !
blog Jamendo: free and quality music online
Sep 2007
Jamendo is a new model for artists to promote, publish, and be paid for their music. I've used this new service for a couple of hours only but I already like it a lot.
2006
blog Semantic Wikipedia: some issues
Oct 2006
Just went to a talk by Denny Vrandecic, one of the people who developed the Semantic MediaWiki. A little description:
blog Library 2.0
Apr 2006
I went to an interesting talk today about the future of library e-services, especially in the light of Web 2.0 technologies. A lot of ideas, maybe not groundbreaking yet but with a lot of potential, I think. And quite a few people out there trying to make it real.
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