From the indefatigable Dan Cohen and the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University comes Digital Humanities Now, an automated website monitoring the pulse of digital humanities through Twitter feeds. If the mention of Twitter turns you off, please read Dan Cohen's announcement and introduction to the site.
I recently came across the Shakespeare Quartos Archive. It is a digital online archive that "is a digital collection of pre-1642 editions of William Shakespeare's plays. A cross-Atlantic collaboration has also produced an interactive interface for the detailed study of these geographically distant quartos, with full functionality for all thirty-two quarto copies of Hamlet held by participating institutions."
The project was made possible with the support of the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC).
What's really nice about this digital collection is the ability to download the XML, view the images, and view the HTML for each item in the archive. To check it out or learn more, click on the link below:
Digital Humanities Now is a website that collects tweets and post them that are from people in the Digital Humanities discipline. It is completely crowd sourced and is passively edited by 274 Digital Humanities scholars. This is a great resource site if you work in the the field of Digital Humanities or a related field. Digital Humanities Now was created by Dan Cohen, assisted by Jeremy Boggs, and is a production of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. To learn more or to view the website, click on the following link:
I just recently tried out Google Lab's ImageSwirl. What's great about the service is that it relates a photo to other photos in the search in a diagram format (kind of looks like a mind mapping of the image). If you like your data broken down in a visual format, this image search tool is for you. Below is a snapshot of an image search for Princeton University. I clicked on the one images of the snow covered building and based off of similar tags, it gave me images related to that one and others related to Princeton U.
To check out the service, click on the link below:
Google Translate introduced a new look and some new features this week. The most noticeable change may be that the site now translates your text as you type. Google has also added romanization to the translations of non-Roman languages, such as Chinese and Korean. This has not yet been implemented for Arabic, Persian, or Hebrew. In Arabic, Persian, and Hindi, however, you can now input words in transliteration. If you would rather not go to the trouble of setting up a keyboard on your computer, for example, to input Arabic characters, you can now just type words as they sound in Arabic using English letters. Type 'salam' and then hit the spacebar. Your text is transformed into Arabic.
This screencast will show you how to embed a video clip into your PDF. You will need Adobe Acrobat Pro to embed video (and an extended version if you have different file formats for the video clips). To view the video click on the link below (for larger view) or click on the player below:
http://www.screencast.com/t/NWNlNjdmNWU
In this screencast, we will show you how to create a maps, edit the map (by adding directions, points of interest via markers, and drawing boxes to highlight areas on the map), and save them to share with others, under the My Maps feature. We also demonstrate how to change the language of the map and the directions you save on the map. To view the screencast, click on the link below (larger view) or on the player.
http://www.screencast.com/t/N2UxMTkyNjg
This screencast demonstrates how to search for Creative Commons licensed photos on Flickr to use for your course. The great advantage for using a Creative Commons licensed work is that it is copyright free, and you may be able to change the work and republish it. Each photo has a different Creative Commons license which is very briefly discussed in th screencast. To view the screencast, you can click the link below (large version) or view the smaller version below.
http://www.screencast.com/t/YzJmZGViZ
You are now able to experience and be immersed into the environment of World War I in Second Life thanks to the First World War Poetry Digital Archive and the Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University (funded by JISC). The First World War Poetry Digital Archive and Learning Technologies Group at Oxford University collaborated to re-create areas of the Western Front from 1914-18. The environment used artifacts from the First World War Poetry Digital Archive. The Second Life environment makes the items more engaging and interactive for the user. To learn more, visit the link below or watch the video below:
http://www.jisc.ac.uk/Home/news/stories/2009/11/ww1simulation.aspx
Maggwire is a free site where you can search for free magazine articles either by topic or by keywords. You can also search for articles based off of the publication. There are many publications to search including popular magazines like Time and Parade. you do not need an account to search Maggwire. To check out Maggwire, click on the link below:
