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Happy 50th Anniversary of Earth Day! Not all of us can plant a tree or do other restorative work for Earth Day, and in the face of large-scale problems to solve we don’t always feel like the small things we do to help (reducing the amount of water or electricity we use) matter. But the…
Read More Plant a Tree in the Command LineIt’s hard to believe that DH Afternoons, a forum celebrating digital humanities work being done at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, is already in its second year. It’s harder yet to believe that the second year is halfway over! Over the past year and a half we have seen great presentations from wonderful scholars in our…
Read More DH Afternoons Recap: Fall 2019In September 2015, we launched the O Say Can You See: Early Washington D.C., Law & Family website (OSCYS) [http://earlywashingtondc.org]. The site had an interactive network component, where users could easily see how a petitioner not only had relationships to attorneys and defendants, but to a web of family members and social connections involved in…
Read More Land of Confusion: A Relationship Visualization ExperimentThe Quest to Remake Maps We have had a looming problem on our hands for a while at the center: what we should do about our aging map projects living on a dying server. We have many projects that rely heavily on maps, from Cuban Battlefields to Civil War Washington, all previously living their lives on…
Read More Exporting Vector Data from ArcMap to GeoJSON(This blog post is a companion to the Digital Humanities 2018 Conference presentation titled “Legacy No Longer: Designing Sustainable Systems for Website Development” co-authored by Jessica Dussault and Greg Tunink) View Slides | Ver en español a través de Google Translate The Problem The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University…
Read More A new way to publish: The CDRH APIThe Death of the Old Site Search When it was announced that Google Site Search was shutting down, we were faced with the unfortunate reality that several of our older sites were no longer going to have a commercial free site search unless we worked on an alternative. Since we have used Solr for many…
Read More Experimenting with Solr CellNebraska Newspapers Since 2007, the CDRH has been cultivating our web-based time machine, Nebraska Newspapers, in partnership with the Library of Congress’s National Digital Newspapers Program (NDNP) and funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). At time of writing, we currently have published 45 newspapers with full text and high resolution…
Read More Repairing the Nebraska Newspapers Space-Time Continuum[This post is also available on the Day of DH’s blog] Hello! My name is Jessica Dussault and I am a programmer at the Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). Let me tell you a little about my Day of DH 2017 which was, if you can tell from…
Read More Day of DH: Data Data Data[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] We laid out a fairly ambitious work plan for 6-8 weeks, so it’s unsurprising we could not finish everything we hoped to accomplish. We have a host of features to add, and have laid the…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part 3: Future Goals[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] Reformatting the HTML The XSLT to transform the TEI into HTML was re-written, to allow for the changes from P4 to P5. We also added new features to the HTML, like terms you can hover…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part 2: Building the Site