Category Archives: Multiscale Applications

Drupal for Humanists

Quinn Dombrowski and I are writing a manual on using the Drupal 7 CMS for digital humanities projects.  Titled unimaginatively Drupal for Humanists, it is meant to provide first an understanding of how to install and configure Drupal and then … Continue reading

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The Marriage of Standards and Access: Centralized Services as a Tool for Collaboration, Publication and Curation

Today at the HASTAC V conference, I’ll be demoing the spatially-enabled Drupal sites I’ve been developing here at Stanford and the Geoserver+PostGIS backend that these sites point to.  I’m going to post the text and images from the accompanying poster … Continue reading

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Framing Digital Scholarly Communication at HASTAC V

Just a quick note that I’ll be attending the 2011 HASTAC International Conference on December 1st through the 3rd in Ann Arbor, where I’ll be demoing a Drupal-based, Geoserver+PostGIS-backed solution for collaborative production and presentation of digital humanities scholarship.  The … Continue reading

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Tiered Spatial Services for the Humanities

I have been engrossed in Drupal 7, lately, and it’s a good thing.  Stanford has just officially announced the creation of Stanford Web Services, which along with developing and providing robust and sophisticated web services for the campus, will also … Continue reading

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Drupal Finally Got Me

I never wanted to be a webmaster and always thought the term was hokey. I started developing in Flash because of its emphasis on vector graphics rather than its web portability and avoided Javascript because every time I looked into … Continue reading

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Protesters Using Digital Mapping Tools

The protests against tuition hikes in London today are leveraging Google Maps to track official response (and Godzilla, apparently).  I’m not a fan of Google Maps or the entire Google Geo Ecosystem, but the ability to quickly create and update … Continue reading

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Multiscale Apps

This article is cross-posted on Ubiquity. With Apple’s retreat from their position disallowing the development of iDevice apps using Adobe AIR–fundamentally the same technology used in Flash on the Web–and the growth in Flash-supported mobile devices, the much-heralded and by … Continue reading

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