[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[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, June 22, 2015 on Github Pages] Linked Data. The Semantic Web. A lot of those terms have been rattling around in my brain for years, picked up from various digital humanities events and lectures. We started on a new project that hopes to use linked data to analyze relationships between…
Read More Figuring Out RDF and SPARQL: Part I Triples[Originally posted by Jessica Dussault, June 17, 2015 on Github Pages] We recently finished work on making the Nebraska Newspapers version of the Chronicling America project, which involved moving around lots of really, really large files like tiffs. I got off to a rocky start because my computer was having trouble connecting to the network…
Read More Network Drive Connection Problems (and Solution)[Originally published by Jessica Dussault on March 9, 2015 on Github Pages] Thursday, I took a road trip to Omaha to watch the ng-conf (angular.js conference) with some nice folks from The Garage by Aviture. I have very little experience with angular besides scanning through their docs a few times, but I thought it would…
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