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April 7, 2014
The exhibition ReDiscover (September 2013) was featured in the Spring 2014 issue of CAPabilities!
March 28, 2014
Last week we discussed work flow and the most efficient way to get the most done possible. So we tested ourselves to find out how...
March 26, 2014
This enchanting cup was presented to me as I waited wearily at the counter of a coffee shop. I normally drink tea so I don’t have...
March 26, 2014
In lab last Friday, we had a tour stop meeting. At the meeting, we discussed the issues we were having when making tour stops, and...
March 21, 2014
In today's meeting we discussed what work flow would be the most productive and efficient. For next week we will be attmpting to...
March 19, 2014
For those of you who couldn't attend the talk Trevor Owens gave at the iSchool yesterday, check out his slides and rough notes on...
March 11, 2014
Since September 2013, undergraduate educators at the UAG have been offering free guided tours of the Nicholas Lochoff paintings in...
March 10, 2014
Ensuring long term access to digital information sounds like a technical problem. It seems like digital preservation should be a...
March 7, 2014
My eyes were opened up today. I never really understood what it was like compliling enough information to fill a text book,...
March 7, 2014
Today was about understanding the scope of data in humanities research. With science research, unless you are on the front edge of...
March 5, 2014
I visited the Met two days ago and found myself in the period rooms of the American Wing. I was interested in the new interpretive...
February 28, 2014
Today I learned a rake was an 18th century playboy, while researching Francis Dashwood the 11th Baron le Despence. Look at that...
February 26, 2014
The Lab hosts several work-study students each year. Last term, Karen worked on data entry for Itinera (and helpfully logged bugs...
February 26, 2014
This semester, Aisling and I are collaborating on all aspects of lab work, including the DH (digital humanities) initiatives,...
February 26, 2014
Hot off the presses - the Visual Media Workshop newsletter [1]. If you're wondering about what's been cooking lately in FFA 116,...
February 20, 2014
This painting, attributed to William Theed, represents a Grand Tour that I would readily embark on, replete with breathtaking...
February 14, 2014
When I think about dates being vague, I do not think of days, weeks, months, or years. My mind automatically goes to everything...
February 14, 2014
Play the song as you read. :)
I GOT A SECRET FORMULA: for all the ways to write the dates for the two different types of date...
February 12, 2014
Michelle Moravec gave an awesome "lightning talk" at THATCamp 2014, about how she moved from visualization to question and back,...
February 11, 2014
That past two days I spent geeking out with folks from universities, research institutes, labs, The Getty, art e-commerce ventures...
February 9, 2014
The CRAAP Test tortured me throughout high school. I used it in basically everyone of my classes. But honestly, it taught me a...
February 7, 2014
We tested user data today on the front end of the itinera database website. We got to understand and test out itinera's usability...
February 6, 2014
At first I was like, that's cool, then I read the by-line: "The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative...
February 1, 2014
Cool! Middlebury made a Summer Institute for Itinera!
Middlebury, Vermont, August 3 - 15, 2014
Deadline: Mar 3, 2014...
January 31, 2014
What makes this call for applications especially cool is the application process: not a long, complicated series of forms, with...
January 31, 2014
When I set off researching Nicholas Revett, I started with the biological information, which turned out to be fairly easy. Despite...
January 31, 2014
I thought that the activity we did today was the most fun so far of what we've done here at the Lab. Taking information and...
January 31, 2014
Last Friday we learned about Metadata. If you googled metadata you would find that metadata is data about data. But that's the very...
January 26, 2014
On Friday we learned about metadata, a topic I had never heard of previously, but was nonetheless interesting. I never really...