The 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[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] In early 2016, Brian Pytlik Zillig ran the Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition P4 TEI XML files through his transformation tool Abbot to migrate the documents from P4 to the current P5 standard.…
Read More Lewis and Clark Part I: Migrating XML and Building the Index[Originally posted by Karin Dalziel, Jessica Dussault, Greg Tunink, Laura Weakly, Brian Pytlik Zillig, January 5, 2017 on Github Pages] The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, in collaboration with the University of Nebraska Press, has recently redesigned and relaunched the award-winning Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. This relaunch keeps all of…
Read More Lewis and Clark: Going to the Source[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, September 12, 2016 on Github Pages] I’ve been sitting on this blog post for several months now, so my apologies for a rather late update! In May the dev team (Karin, Greg, and I) headed to Kansas City for the Ruby on Rails 2016 conference. Most of our dev team…
Read More Rails Conf 2016[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, October 9, 2015 on Github Pages] In part II of this series, we learned how to run a basic query on some RDF. In this part, I’ll be explaining some of the queries that we are running behind the scenes to power the O Say Can You See website. This…
Read More Figuring Out RDF and SPARQL: Part III Some Queries[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, July 6, 2015 on Github Pages] In Part I of the RDF crash course, I provided some examples of the types of information that you can get out of an RDF file. I stopped just at the point where the floor was falling out from under me in other tutorials.…
Read More Figuring out RDF and SPARQL: Part II Getting Set Up