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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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The Killer Feature of QGIS

I’ve been working just a bit more with Quantum GIS, the open-source alternative to ESRI’s ArcGIS.  At Stanford, we have an unlimited (or practically unlimited, I can never remember) set of licenses for ArcGIS, along with most of the analyst … Continue reading

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Everything is a Graph and Drawing It as Such is Always the Best Thing to Do

Well, maybe that’s going a little too far, but Sébastien Heymann has written an excellent response to the Ben Fry quote brought to the fore by Dan Brickley’s recent exploration of literary networks. Ben Fry’s quote in full goes like … Continue reading

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Gephi Workshop at Bay Area THATCamp

I’ll be at the upcoming Bay Area THATCamp held at Google’s campus in Mountain View on October 22-23.  Along with various unconferencey kinds of things, I’ll be giving a 90-minute tutorial on Gephi, including a showcase of the various new … Continue reading

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New Features in Gephi .8 Beta

The new version of Gephi that will soon be coming out includes a brand new engine for final output, as well as a host of new features for dynamic graphs and a few other nice additions, such as font options … Continue reading

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Hacking Networks in the Humanities

Hacking, it seems, is in the air. Dan Cohen has announced the edited version of Hacking the Academy, here at Stanford we’ve finished up with our Humanities Hackerspace experiment, and another Bay Area THATCamp (where I’ll be officially giving a … 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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If You’re Going to San Francisco

As a follow-up to the previous post, here’s a gallery of various representations of San Francisco. This first set comes from Eric Fischer, who mapped accessibility in San Francisco by taxi, based on data from Cabspotting and inspired by an … Continue reading

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Learning, Design and Technology Expo 2011

Tomorrow is the public exhibition of the final projects for the Learning, Design and Technology program here at Stanford.  I’ve been asked to be one of the reviewers of the projects, which include learning games, map-based teaching tools, museum aids … Continue reading

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Nine Rivers and a Mountain

That’s what you’ll cross on your way to Rome from Sarajevo. You could stop at Ravenna or Aqvuileia or Interamnio. It is a much more pleasant trip than the overland route from Hippo, where Augustine wrote the City of God. … Continue reading

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