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Short Title Catalogue, Netherlands, as Linked Open Data
Posted by Albert Meroño-P... on August 15, 2014
In 2012, historians and computer scientists at VU University Amsterdam started a project dealing with an important dataset in the field of history and literary studies: the Short Title Catalogue, Netherlands (STCN). The STCN is a retrospective bibliography compiled by the National Library of the Netherlands and contains descriptions of over 200.000 Dutch publications from the period 1540-1800. These descriptions are disclosed by using the Picarta/OCLC standards.
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CEDAR
Posted by Albert Meroño-P... on August 14, 2014
CEDAR seeks to answer fundamental questions about social history in the Netherlands and the world in automatic, web-scalable and reproducible ways. More concretely, the aim of CEDAR is to publish the Dutch historical censuses (1795-1971) in the Semantic Web, using this dataset as a starting point to build a semantic data-web of socio-historical information. With such a web we will be able to more easily answer questions such as:
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Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures
Posted by Elisa Beshero-Bondar on May 21, 2013
1. Digital Archives and Pacific Cultures and
2. Digital Mitford Project
Primary contact: Elisa Beshero-Bondar
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The Medici Archive Project
Posted by Maurizio Arfaioli on March 14, 2013
The objective of the Medici Archive Project (MAP) is the digitization of one of the most exhaustive and complete courtly archives of early modern Europe: the Medici Granducal Archival Collection (Mediceo del Principato) ― comprising over four-million letters distributed in 6,429 volumes and occupying a mile of shelf space.
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Juxta Commons
Posted by Dana Wheeles on December 4, 2012
Juxta Commons is free, online space that lets you compare different versions of the same textual work, visualize the changes and share collations with your peers.
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Online Manuscript Transcription
Posted by Center For Scho... on June 20, 2012
Implementing and supporting local installation of FromThePage, an open source online manuscript transcription software, to enable faculty member and her team to transcribe, annotate, and index over 3,000 pages of 19th century diaries.
VisualEyes
Posted by Bill Ferster on March 18, 2012
VisualEyes is web-based authoring tool developed at the University of Virginia to weave images, maps, charts, video and data into highly interactive and compelling dynamic visualizations.VisualEyes enables scholars to present selected primary source materials and research findings while encouraging active inquiry and hands-on learning among general and targeted audiences.
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Mapping Art Activism
Posted by Michelle Moravec on February 9, 2012
I'm currently mapping sites of art activism (mostly feminist oriented) in '70s and '80s Los Angeles. I'm looking for people who are interested in collaborating in any location and any social movement
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The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters
Posted by Konrad M. Lawson on January 25, 2012
The Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters project is an initiative of the Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University in collaboration with several partners. We aim to collect, preserve, and make accessible as much of the digital record of the disasters as possible, to enable scholarly research and analysis of the events and their effect.
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'Peterloo' and Percy Shelley's 'The Mask of Anarchy'
Posted by Michael Demson on November 14, 2011
This project explores the intersections of the social, literary, and graphic history of the 1819 massacre in St. Peter’s Field in Manchester, England, when cavalry under orders from local magistrates charged into a peaceful crowd of reform-seeking protesters. They killed fifteen and injured hundreds of men, women, and children. It later came to light that many of the cavalry were intoxicated. Outrage at the government filled popular media.
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