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Working with Rebecca Munson, sharing a first name with her, and missing her. 20 Aug 2021
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Working with Rebecca Munson, sharing a first name with her, and missing her. 20 Aug 2021
Sometime towards the end of the process of revising the project charter for the Center for Digital Humanities at Princeton Research Partnership with Marina R... 24 Sep 2020
Last Thursday, I completed the steps to deploy the 1.0 release of the Shakespeare and Company Project, updated the site index, and checked that things looked... 22 May 2020
Experimenting with sonification and reference data from Derrida's Margins 30 Dec 2019
Diving into a bit of the code behind the Shakespeare and Company Project to explore how we represent ambiguity in code when a machine requires certainty. 20 Dec 2019
I read an article years ago comparing writing software to creative writing. The author’s takeaway was that, as with writing, some people will be more gifted ... 02 Dec 2019
A Digital Humanities origin story. 23 Aug 2019
Software development "best" practices and how they work (or don't) for Digital Humanities research. 26 Jul 2019
The Digital Humanities community and Agile software development process both encourage reflection and retrospection, taking time to learn from successes and ... 14 Dec 2018
I was privileged to attend and participate in DH2018 in Mexico City, Mexico earlier this year. Here are some notes on the things I’m still thinking about mor... 17 Aug 2018
Software developers, like other humans, make mistakes. 02 Oct 2017
Notes from Elizabeth Guffey’s closing keynote on at DH2017 on August 11, 2017. 25 Aug 2017
It’s been a few weeks since I had the privilege of attending the AIGA Converge Design Educators Conference. It was a stimulating, thought-provoking experienc... 23 Jun 2017
Notes from a panel session on designed text deformation at AIGA Converge Design Educators Conference on June 3, 2017. 07 Jun 2017
Notes from Erik Loyer’s keynote at AIGA Converge Design Educators Conference on June 2, 2017. 07 Jun 2017
Data as a medium, design collaboration with scientists. Notes from a long paper session at AIGA Converge Design Educators Conference on June 2, 2017. 07 Jun 2017
Digital Scholarly monographs, modes of arrangement and access to books in libraries, and experimental scholarly/artistic book-making. Notes from a long paper... 07 Jun 2017
Notes from Johanna Drucker’s keynote at AIGA Converge Design Educators Conference on June 2, 2017. 07 Jun 2017
Closing keynote talk from Rufus Pollock (@rufuspollock) on open information as the biggest issue of the 21st century. 01 Jul 2016
Presentations on Avalon, HydraDAM2 for large files, and integrating a large multimedia cultural collection into the larger web with linked data. 01 Jul 2016
Reports on Fedora 3 to 4 migration, preservation, mass digitization workflows, Hydra Metadata Interest Groups, and handling and modeling complicated and rich... 01 Jul 2016
Presentations on Fedora 4 current state as praxis rather than just software, history of the Fedora approach, API-X extension architecture, and a whirlwind vi... 15 Jun 2016
Notes on the second 24x7 session. I don’t have detailed notes on every presentation, so do take a look at the session abstracts for the ones I missed. 15 Jun 2016
Notes on the first 24x7 session. Highlights include a couple of great repository rants. I don’t have notes on every presentation, so I recommend taking a lo... 15 Jun 2016
Notes on developer prack presentations; highlights include open research evaluation metrics and robot usage statistics accuracy on repository content. 15 Jun 2016
Though-provoking keynote talk from Laura Czerniewicz (@czernie) about the uneven distribution of “open” knowledge. 15 Jun 2016
Notes and thoughts on Open Repositories workshop session on IIIF. 13 Jun 2016
Notes on Open Repositories workshop session on text and data mining in repositories, with some reactions about thoughts about possible local application. 13 Jun 2016
Disk image ingest workflow and rationale. Content associated with a poster for OR2016. 08 Jun 2016
An model-based alternative to dumpdata for migrating data between databases. 31 Mar 2016
Discussion of Readux’s invisible OCR text placement over page images for selection and annotation. 27 Jan 2016
There once was a blog called Tech Know-how. It was a team blog, and it ran on Drupal. 07 Jul 2015
An experiment with namedropper, DBpedia Spotlight, and poetry. 20 Feb 2013
Generating a map of places mentioned in Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. 01 Feb 2013
A technical discussion of the process of generating a network graph of authorial influence using DBpedia, SPARQL, and Gephi. 12 Nov 2012
A poster proposal for the 2013 Digital Humanities conference co-written with Brian Croxall. 12 Nov 2012
Thoughts on attending the Digital Humanities 2012 conference in Hamburg, DHers as those capable of metaphor and formulae, and poetry in DH. 28 Aug 2012
Presentations on an approach for multi-modal analysis to compare text, video and subtitles for different representations of the same story; automated analysi... 17 Aug 2012
A tool to work with email archives, and two papers on text analysis. 17 Aug 2012
Panel session on Topic Modeling with Travis Brown, David Mimno, and Robert Nelson. 10 Aug 2012
An analysis of the user and image networks of deviantART, a report on named-entity extraction reliability for historical data from messy texts, and an attemp... 10 Aug 2012
This was an odd mix of presentations (at least, I couldn’t find any common theme), but fortunately for me I was interested in all three of them: an experimen... 01 Aug 2012
A session on three different geographical or otherwise map-related projects: applying 3D technologies to archaeology, investigating the precision of Ptolemy’... 31 Jul 2012
This was a diverse session– from detailed visual analysis of title pages in 17th century medical texts, to the failure of traditional keyword analysis method... 26 Jul 2012
This session included three very different approaches to visualizing aspects of English language and literature - a visualization tool for poetry, surprising... 26 Jul 2012
This session consisted of three different papers relating in some way or other to authorship attribution or verification; the first looked at the technique o... 20 Jul 2012
This session was a panel with four speakers - two from the text encoding “team” and two from the analytics “team”; each of them spoke briefly and then there ... 18 Jul 2012
This session was billed as a workshop, but was really a series of presentations - sort of a mixed bag of things relating to annotation, ontologies, etc, as R... 18 Jul 2012
I enjoyed this tutorial from the Free Your Metadata group. This session was an actual, valuable workshop on using Google Refine to clean and refine metadata... 18 Jul 2012
CLÉA is version 4 of CATMA (which stands for Computer Aided Textual Markup & Analysis); they are transitioning from a desktop application to a web-based ... 18 Jul 2012
Normally, I do my development on an Ubuntu workstation, which I’ve got pretty much set up and customized and I know how to manage it. But for my recent trip ... 17 Jun 2011
Clifford Lynch gave the closing plenary at Open Repositories 2011, and he talked about where we are now with repositories, about a decade in. 17 Jun 2011
There was so much good information at Open Repositories 2011 (and in particular, things came fast and furious in the new 24x7 sessions where presenters had 7... 14 Jun 2011
Thought-provoking talk from @jimjag this morning to open OR11. In keeping with this year’s OR theme of community & collaboration, he emphasized the commu... 08 Jun 2011
Correspondent graph of four Irish authors based on FOAF generated from Finding Aids. 12 May 2010
I just happened to notice this because I was looking at Google Analytics and saw a huge spike in traffic for one record. Analytics told me most of the traffi... 13 Apr 2010
ITQL query to get totals of objects in a Fedora Repository by content model. 06 Apr 2010
The current MARBL finding aids website has a PDF generation feature that we need to duplicate or replace in the new django-based version of the finding aids ... 05 Apr 2010
Thoughts and lessons learned after migrating from Fedora 2.x to 3. 09 Oct 2009
I figured out how to use keywords on Trac tickets and the TracQuery wiki macro so that a Development plan can be more dynamically updated if we add new ticke... 26 Aug 2009
NetBeans has the capability to view databases directly; since I haven’t had so much luck getting Oracle’s sqldeveloper running in linux, I thought I’d try th... 03 Aug 2009
ETD is now configured to be tested & monitored in Hudson: http://waterhouse.library.emory.edu:8080/hudson/job/ETD/ 24 Jul 2009
Author Identifiers in Scholarly Repositories 15 Jul 2009
aDORe djatoka: An Open-Source Jpeg 2000 Image Server and Dissemination Service Framework 14 Jul 2009
Notes and resources for implementing COinS and unAPI for Electronic Thesis and Dissertation records. 14 Jul 2009
When Ruby Met Fedora: presentation on ActiveFedora by Matt Zumwalt of MediaShelf 13 Jul 2009
Brief description of PloS Ambra/Topaz publishing platform 10 Jul 2009
As part of my Fedora 3 migration work, I’ve done some initial investigation on datastreams that are missing checksums (since it’s not clear if there’s an eas... 09 Jul 2009
I’ve completed a test-run of the Fedora 3 migration process on all of our current production Fedora 2 data (ETD and GDE/smallpox objects), following these up... 06 Jul 2009
In testing the latest stable version of eXist on wilson, Alice and I noticed that all our keyword-in-context functionality on the various TEI sites was no lo... 02 Jul 2009
I came across this at the OpenRepositories2009 poster session– I hadn’t heard of it before, and I thought it was interesting and possibly useful. 05 Jun 2009
Kyle sends news from the Open Repositories Conference: 20 May 2009
For content we produce and display online that has permanent urls or arks associated, I suggets that we display the link on the page in this format: 30 Apr 2009
Maximum file upload size is configured in the php.ini. Confuguration values like this can be retrieved with the ini_get function, e.g., 16 Feb 2009
I discovered a while back that, for some ETD records, two different versions of the record summary page were indexed in Google– the normal page you’d hope ge... 06 Feb 2009
With Chris Roddy’s help, I just figured out a pretty slick way to quickly get the duration of a bunch of video files. 21 Jan 2009
It took me a while to figure how to add custom arguments in python-fuse, so I want to document how I got it to work. Maybe it would have been compeltely cle... 16 Jan 2009
I wanted to use symbolic links in my FedoraFS because it seemed like the simplest way to accomplish what I wanted to do to handle relationships between objec... 16 Jan 2009
I got a little time to play with some new technologies (python and FUSE, or Filesystem in User Space) and interfacing them with a somewhat more familiar tech... 16 Jan 2009