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Measuring Success in a Digital Library – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2015/10/31/success_digital_library
Measuring Success in a Digital Library. October 31, 2015. November 4, 2015. Digital Libraries(DL) made the news. Is Google Books a success? And how can we measure the success of a digital library? My initial(and naive) aim was to answer this question but this blog appears to raise more questions than answers. But what makes for a successful digital repository? Comments that the Google Books corpus is impressive but accessibility is an issue. It seems the go-to literary reference for digital libraries is ...
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The “WHERE” in who, what, where and when – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2016/04/11/the-where-in-who-what-where-and-when
The “WHERE” in who, what, where and when. April 11, 2016. April 11, 2016. My internship with DRIS. Digital Resources and Imaging Services) is now in full swing. Some misunderstandings on my side have been cleared up and I can see the light from the dark abyss of metadata that I was in. Classmates’ blogs and presentations have highlighted the exciting projects that they are working on and this has inspired me to publish my second blog. Outside the box (non-traditional data). Allows research, interpretatio...
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October 2015 – considering digital humanities
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Measuring Success in a Digital Library. October 31, 2015. November 4, 2015. Digital Libraries(DL) made the news. Is Google Books a success? And how can we measure the success of a digital library? My initial(and naive) aim was to answer this question but this blog appears to raise more questions than answers. But what makes for a successful digital repository? Comments that the Google Books corpus is impressive but accessibility is an issue. It seems the go-to literary reference for digital libraries is ...
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December 2015 – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2015/12
8220;I heard a rumour…”. December 3, 2015. December 8, 2015. 8220;A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”. After the Friday 13th November 2015 attacks in Paris the above picture of the Empire State building started trending. The New York building was lit up in the French flag colours in a show of support for Paris. Dublin based social news agency, Storyful, for 18,000,000. Is a news agency who are in the business of discovering stories that are NOT true. An NPR. Since the st...
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May 2016 – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2016/05
May 9, 2016. May 9, 2016. 9 minute speed read. The term Big Data is a an underestimate in my view! Linked data was first defined by Tim Berners-Lee in his definition of the semantic web. 1998 where he stated the aim to maintain a document with the aim of:. Achieving a set of connected applications for data on the Web in such a way as to form a consistent logical web of data (semantic web). Berners-Lee hoped that the document would outline steps such we would go. Has Berners Lee stating. It often helps to...
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Don’t go chasing waterfalls – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2016/03/22/dont-go-chasing-waterfalls
Don’t go chasing waterfalls. March 22, 2016. April 4, 2016. Data about data. That’s what Metadata is and how about we don’t expand on that anymore? My flirtation with long essays and blogs discussing “But what IS. I was happy to select and receive this internship. My next blog will discuss my selected option of geographic metadata standards. But first I will explore project management and product development. Leaving us anxiously pacing until the van arrives on moving day. DH students could find themselv...
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About – considering digital humanities
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A blog detailing a year mastering digital humanities. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Twitter account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Facebook account. ( Log Out. You are commenting using your Google account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. Don’t go chasing waterfalls.
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The Missing Link – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2016/05/09/the-missing-link
May 9, 2016. May 9, 2016. 9 minute speed read. The term Big Data is a an underestimate in my view! Linked data was first defined by Tim Berners-Lee in his definition of the semantic web. 1998 where he stated the aim to maintain a document with the aim of:. Achieving a set of connected applications for data on the Web in such a way as to form a consistent logical web of data (semantic web). Berners-Lee hoped that the document would outline steps such we would go. Has Berners Lee stating. It often helps to...
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“I heard a rumour…” – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2015/12/03/rumours-digital-media
8220;I heard a rumour…”. December 3, 2015. December 8, 2015. 8220;A lie can run round the world before the truth has got its boots on.”. After the Friday 13th November 2015 attacks in Paris the above picture of the Empire State building started trending. The New York building was lit up in the French flag colours in a show of support for Paris. Dublin based social news agency, Storyful, for 18,000,000. Is a news agency who are in the business of discovering stories that are NOT true. An NPR. Since the st...
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April 2016 – considering digital humanities
https://consideringdh2016.wordpress.com/2016/04
The “WHERE” in who, what, where and when. April 11, 2016. April 11, 2016. My internship with DRIS. Digital Resources and Imaging Services) is now in full swing. Some misunderstandings on my side have been cleared up and I can see the light from the dark abyss of metadata that I was in. Classmates’ blogs and presentations have highlighted the exciting projects that they are working on and this has inspired me to publish my second blog. Outside the box (non-traditional data). Allows research, interpretatio...
