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Project Gemini over Baja California
Launch the Exhibit A couple weeks ago, somewhere in the middle of a long session of free-association link hopping on Wikipedia, I stumbled into a cluster of articles about Project Gemini, NASA’s second...
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SolrSearch 2.0
[Cross-posted from scholarslab.org] Today we’re pleased to announce version 2.0 of the SolrSearch plugin for Omeka! SolrSearch replaces the default search interface in Omeka with one powered by Solr,...
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FedoraConnector 2.0
[Cross-posted from scholarslab.org] Hot on the heels of yesterday’s update to the SolrSearch plugin, today we’re happy to announce version 2.0 of the FedoraConnector plugin, which makes it possible to...
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A “citable” deep-zooming image viewer
A couple weeks ago, when I was pulling together all the images for Textplot, a little text network-analysis project I’ve been working on recently, I ran into a familiar problem – I wanted a way to...
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Minard + Napoleon + Neatline
Open the Exhibit Yesterday I made the hop across the country to Boston for the NEH Workshop on Digital Methods for Military History at Northeastern University, where I’ll be giving a couple of...
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Building the Humanist network
Back in November, when I started playing with the code that eventually turned into the visualization of the Humanist list that I posted last month, I thought I’d be able to pretty much just cobble...
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Literary MRIs (or, tuning Textplot)
Last week I posted some instructions for getting up and running with Textplot. But, in the step that involves actually using Textplot, there was some handwaving: textplot generate pg2600.txt...
View ArticleCounting words in HathiTrust with Python and MPI
[Cross-posted from the Stanford Literary Lab’s Techne blog] In recent months we’ve been working on a couple of projects here in the Lab that are making use of the Extracted Features data set from...
View ArticleParsing BC dates with JavaScript
Last semester, while giving a workshop about Neatline at Beloit College in Wisconsin, Matthew Taylor, a professor in the Classics department, noticed a strange bug – Neatline was ignoring negative...
View ArticleLazy-loaded Backbone models
Imagine you’re building some kind of travel application and you have a Backbone model called City, with fields like name, latitude, longitude, and population, which are just run-of-the-mill, static...
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