I code, you code, we code…Why Code?
Forget the Year of the Dragon. It’s the Year of The Code.
Dublin Core (and Omeka): a project prequel
The phrase Dublin Core might well conjure a folksonomy of James Joyce, Sweet Molly Malone, The Pogues (okay, not strictly Dubliners), the Chester Beatty, Jameson and Guinness. And if it does, this one’s for you. Actually, the referenced Dublin is Dublin, Ohio, site of the first exploratory Core workshop; the Core itself, 15 basic descriptors to classify, identify, and categorize …
Hacking the dissertation, future tense
A few weeks ago, I officially advanced to candidacy in American history at George Mason University, and I took my first trip as an ABD to the Library of Virginia in Richmond, Virginia, for research in the business records of Tredegar Iron Works. Over one hundred years of ledgers, accounts, patents, letters, advertisements—the paper evidence of corporate structure and process—are …
Flickr and the Library of Congress…further adventures in the democratization of history
The Library of Congress hasn’t always been friendly to the public-at-large. Well into the latter half of the twentieth century, institutional culture reflected its original purpose as a reference library for Senators, Representatives and their staffs, and directions and admonitions to researchers seeking access to its collections served to discourage frivolous bibliographic meandering. It was an exciting place to go, …
Minimalism works
The visual organization of history sites doesn’t necessarily have to hook in the dubious; it has to tell the visitor that the information that they need is there and where it can be found.
When is a photo not an artifact, but a design element?
it would seem that in visual representation, as in other realms, context is everything
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