This issue came up for a friend of the Scholars’ Lab today on Twitter, but it’s hard to answer in 140 characters. It’s a question about allowing for larger file sizes in Omeka and there are a few ways to handle this. (Because we want our new blog to be a combination of thoughtful essays…. More.
Neatline
I’ve called Neatline, the Digital Humanities Start-Up project Adam Soroka and I began developing in September, a “contribution to interpretive humanities scholarship in the visual vernacular.” Huh? This project will allow scholars (and other stewards of cultural heritage) to create Web-based geospatial and temporal visualizations that build on the rich EAD metadata libraries produce in…. More.
Dynamic web forms for the creation of XML
Among my regular tasks in the Scholars’ Lab Research and Development department, I have been developing applications to enable users to easily edit XML metadata within web forms. As those familiar with metadata creation workflows will know, methods for creating XML documents were prone to human error and required some level of technical knowledge. With…. More.