I’m afraid someone may come along and pinch me, to wake me up from this awesome dream. As Bethany Nowviskie has already announced, I’m going be a visiting scholar for Scholars’ Lab at the University of Virginia for the Fall semester. To say that I’m honored would be an understatement. The work that comes out [...]
THATCamp 2009
THATCamp, the immensely fun and popular digital humanities unconference hosted by CHNM is back in 2009. Its a true working weekend, where people show things their working on, get feedback, toss around ideas, and connect with others equally excited about the possibilities of digital humanities. If that sounds like your kind of event, keep reading.
Omeka Stable 0.10 Release
For those of you who haven’t heard the news on the Omeka blog or the Twitter feed, the Omeka team has released the stable version of 0.10, and in the process upgraded a few plugins and created some new ones.
Part Five: Maintenance, Documentation, and User Feedback
The last part of these series briefly discusses some things I keep in mind when maintaining a site after launch, some things I document for anyone charged with adding and updating content on the site, and some good things to keep in mind with regard to user feedback
Part Four: Front-End Development
Front-end development involves codes that deals with how things are displayed in a browser. This includes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Back-end development, in contrast, refers to the development on the code and technologies that the end-user hardly ever sees. This includes PHP, MySQL, XML, Perl, or any other languages that affects how a site works [...]
Digital Humanities Design and Development Process
This post is the intro to a series on the process I recommend for creating a digital humanities project from scratch, from initial conception to launch and aftermath. The last few months, I’ve been researching design and development processes in an effort to establish and document them for folks at CHNM, and for my own benefit. In a lot of cases, the process could be generalized for any kind of project, but I hope to address specific goals and concerns that humanities projects have at various stages of development. So, here’s what to expect
Omeka Public Beta Release
The news is out: We’ve released Omeka to the public! It’s a public beta, dubbed version 0.9.0, but we’ve made some great progress since the first private invitation release early last Fall.
THATCamp
Playing off the “THAT” acronym, CHNM, Digital Campus, and THATPodcast are sponsoring THATCamp. Taking place May 31–June 1, THATCamp is an “unconference” for digital humanities. The event is hosted by the Center for History and New Media, George Mason University. If you have a strong interest in the future of digital humanities and want to [...]
THATPodcast
As the crew from Digital Campus have already announced, Dave Lester and I published our first episode of our new podcast, THATPodcast. The first show focused on WordPress, and included an interview with Matt Mullenweg, the creator of WordPress, and a screencast covering our plugin ScholarPress Courseware. Even though I had taken a digital history [...]
In the Works
After a few months away from blogging, I’m taking it up again. Here’s a rundown of what I’ve been doing the last few months.