Category Archives: Tools

Stop teaching historians to use computers!

Posted on 2007-05-08 by Tom Elliott

Bill Turkel has started what looks to be an important and potentially influential thread on the nexus of history and the digital. His opening salvo: Teaching history students how to use computers was a really good idea in the early … Continue reading →

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Type Greek

Posted on 2007-05-01 by scaife

Type Greek is a web-based software tool that converts text from a standard keyboard into beautiful, polytonic Greek characters as you type. Using an easy-to-learn and standardized system called beta code, TypeGreek converts your keystrokes into Unicode-compliant Greek in real-time… … Continue reading →

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Propylaeum-DOK

Posted on 2007-04-27 by chuckjones

An interesting new project at Heidelberg: “Propylaeum-DOK, der Volltextserver der Virtuellen Fachbibliothek Altertumswissenschaft, Propylaeum wird von der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg bereitgestellt. Die Publikationsplattform bietet Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern weltweit die Möglichkeit, ihre Veröffentlichungen aus allen Fachbereichen der Altertumswissenschaften kostenlos und in elektronischer … Continue reading →

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Announcing TAPoR version 1.0

Posted on 2007-04-24 by smahony

Seen on Humanist: Announcing TAPoR version 1.0 http://portal.tapor.ca We have just updated the Text Analysis Portal for Research (TAPoR) to version 1.0 and invite you to try it out. The new version will not appear that different from previous versions. … Continue reading →

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Open Source OCR

Posted on 2007-04-11 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Slashdot and Google Code updates: Google has just announced work on OCRopus, which it says it hopes will ‘advance the state of the art in optical character recognition and related technologies.’ OCRopus will be available under the Apache … Continue reading →

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ImaNote – Image and Map Annotation Notebook

Posted on 2007-04-04 by smahony

This looks a useful tool. Anyone tried it? Claims to allow annotation and links to be added to images with RSS to keep track of everything. Following text copied from Humanist: We are really happy to announce the release of … Continue reading →

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Conference: Historic Environment Information Resources Network

Posted on 2007-03-26 by Gabriel Bodard

Data Sans Frontières: web portals and the historic environment 25 May 2007: The British Museum, London Organised by the Historic Environment Information Resources Network (HEIRNET) and supported by the AHRC ICT Methods Network and the British Museum, this one-day conference … Continue reading →

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Tools and Methods for the Digital Historian

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Posted by the Methods Network: The AHRC ICT Methods Network, a UK initiative for the exchange and dissemination of expertise in the use of ICT for arts and humanities research, has just launched an online community forum on ‘digital’ history: … Continue reading →

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Wikis and Blogs in Education

Posted on 2007-03-25 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in the Creative Commons Feed: “The wiki is the center of my classroom” That’s a quote from Wikis and Blogs in Education, one of three educational remixes from students of open content pioneer David Wiley. The other two are … Continue reading →

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Gentium resurgens: refined Cyrillic, Unicode 5, smart rendering

Posted on 2007-02-19 by Tom Elliott

From Victor Gualtney, on the latest regarding the Gentium font by way of the Gentium-Announce List (links mine): Update #4 – Gentium project revived, Cyrillic, Charis Dear friends of Gentium, No – there’s not a new version out yet. 🙂 … Continue reading →

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100 Alternative Search Engines

Posted on 2007-01-31 by Gabriel Bodard

Seen in Read/Write Web (by Charles S. Knight): Ask anyone which search engine they use to find information on the Internet and they will almost certainly reply: “Google.” Look a little further, and market research shows that people actually use … Continue reading →

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Humanities Computing Links from TAPoR

Posted on 2007-01-29 by Tom Elliott

Geoffrey Rockwell has put up a collection of tagged links to online works about humanities computing. It’s a good complement to Bill Turkel’s Readings in Digital History. And, best of all, it’s TAPoRized, so you can search the collection and … Continue reading →

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Google maps and millions of books

Posted on 2007-01-26 by Tom Elliott

It was only a matter of time: Google has added overview maps for full-view books in Google Book Search. Even though Google is not the first organization to employ geoparsing technologies and autogenerated maps in the interface to a digital … Continue reading →

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Second Life experient in social copyright

Posted on 2007-01-21 by Gabriel Bodard

I spotted this several weeks ago in Wired magazine, but have only just gotten around to taking it in fully. The scenario: Businesses in Second Life are in an uproar over a rogue [ed. note: modified from Open Source] software … Continue reading →

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Second Life to open code

Posted on 2007-01-10 by Gabriel Bodard

I’ve posted here several times about the educational fun to be had with ancient and other reconstructions in Second Life (see e.g. 3D Egyptian Archaeology in Second Life). Now more good news from Linden Labs, which may make SL an … Continue reading →

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