Items of Interest for June 12, 2008
Thursday, June 12th, 2008- Jeremy Boggs continues his series on the “Digital Humanities Design and Development Process” with a detailed post explaining his design principles, and showing how he developed compelling design elements like the logo for Omeka. One of the things we’ve learned at the Center for History and New Media over the last 15 years is that design matters far more than we might like to admit as bookish scholars, and that it’s often neglected in digital humanities projects.
- Dave Lester begins a blog series on “Facial Recognition in Digital Photo Collections.” Interesting application of crowdsourcing history, across sites rather than on a single site like Flickr.
- Adam Crymble, a graduate student who is visiting us for the summer from the University of Western Ontario, makes the rather generous offer (which he may later regret) to make any Canadian website Zotero-compatible if it is not already.
- The New York Public Library launches its first Omeka-based exhibit, “Eminent Domain.” Some terrific photographs from their collection.
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