Making Manuscripts Accessible: U of Michigan
A good example of bringing the disclosure of a manuscript collection into the digital age, using simple and readily available techniques,…
Category: DH in General
Visit to digitization studio of Yale’s Beinecke Library
I had a chance to look behind the scenes of the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale, the Beinecke.…
Varmilo VB87M bluetooth keyboard
Back to mechanical keyboards. If you are a writer and have not tried these out yet, you are missing out!…
Report on Digital Islamic Humanities Conference at Brown University
On Friday Oct 16, a conference was hosted at Brown University bringing together those in Islamic Studies who are working…
IBM Model M: the mother of all keyboards
This is one of those geekier posts. Mechanical keyboards. Again. And this time I had the opportunity to test the…
Does anyone have a PDF of…
It is the number one question of our days. “Does anyone have a PDF of…” What does this question mean?…
The Sony Hack: What Scholars Can Learn From It
Connectivity has been touted as an absolute good. All your data should be available on all your devices, everywhere. However,…
Mapping Digitized Manuscript Collections
Among the first-generation digitization projects in the humanities is disclosing manuscripts. Disclosing those disclosures is a natural follow-up. One way to…
Reading on a Phone
Carrying a smartphone has made my tablet obsolete. Digital reading has two main modes; plain text or PDF. Plain text…
How Important Is Your Monitor?
Next to your keyboard, your monitor is the part of the computer you encounter most often. In fact, many people…