This morning, Kiyonori Nagasaki noticed that one of the remote API’s used by the Neatline 1.x releases went offline, which had the effect of breaking exhibits that included the SIMILE Timeline widget. To fix this, we just posted a 1.1.3 maintenance release that patches up the timeline problem and also includes a couple of other…. More.
Geospatial and Temporal
Interactive CSS in Neatline 2.0
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] Neatline 2.0 makes it possible to work with really large collections of records – as many as about 1,000,000 in a single exhibit. This level of scalability opens up the door to a whole range of projects that would have been impossible with the first version of Neatline, but it also introduces…. More.
Announcing Neatline 2.0-alpha1!
[Cross-posted with dclure.org] It’s here! After much hard work, we’re delighted to announce the first alpha release of Neatline 2.0, which migrates the codebase to Omeka 2.0 and adds lots of exciting new things. For now, this is just an initial testing release aimed at developers and other brave folks who want to tinker around…. More.
Plot Your Course in Space and Time: A Look at Scholars’ Lab’s Neatline
Scholars’ Lab Speaker Series: Bethany Nowviskie & David McClure Plot Your Course in Space and Time: A Look at Scholars’ Lab’s Neatline In January, Bethany Nowviskie, Director of Digital Research & Scholarship at UVa Library, and David McClure, Web Applications Specialist in the Scholars’ Lab spoke about Neatline. Summary: What do you get when you…. More.
Size Matters
In geography, size matters. On maps, large always wins over small. We’re human. We’re wired to quickly spot patterns and make visual comparisons. See Tufte, Edward. Picture a map of your own state. How does it compare in size to the states next door, the largest states, the smallest, or Texas? I recently joined with…. More.
Spring 2013 GIS Workshops
Every semester Kelly Johnston and I teach a workshop series around specific topics in GIS. Typically, we stick to the basics for fall but branch out and mix it up a little by teaching new topics in spring. Our sessions are one hour long and generally designed to be hands-on and don’t require prior knowledge…. More.
Meg Stewart to talk about the Fulbright Scholar program, Thursday, Jan 17
A Fulbright Scholar Talks About Participatory GIS, the Caribbean, Google Earth and How a Fulbright Could Be in Your Future Thursday, January 17 2:00 – 3:00pm Alderman Library, Room 421 Meg Stewart Academic Technology Consultant and Fulbright Ambassador A Fulbright Scholar in 2009-10 to the University of the West Indies in Barbados, Meg Stewart will…. More.
Omeka + Neatline Metadata Survey
As part of our collaboration on Omeka + Neatline, the Scholars’ Lab and Omeka development teams are seeking your assistance to help make our projects more useful across many scholarly disciplines–including beyond the humanities and cultural heritage fields in which they originated. We’ve developed a short survey asking questions about new data types that Omeka+Neatline…. More.
Using Neatline with historical maps :: Part 3 – GeoServer
[Cross-posted with dclure.org and neatline.org] This is part 3 of a 3-post tutorial that walks through process of georeferencing a historical map and using it in GeoServer and Neatline. In part 1 of this series, we used ArcMap to convert a static image into a georeferenced .tiff file. In part 2, we post-processed the file…. More.
Using Neatline with historical maps :: Part 2 – Transparency
Update 8/27/12: After posting this last week, a comment by KaCeBe led me to go back and look for a way to get Geoserver to render transparent borders without having to manually add an alpha channel to the file. Although I still can’t find way to make Geoserver do it automatically, I did find this…. More.
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- Neatline Time 1.1.3 Release
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