It is both a set of software and practices that can be used to help organizations and individuals display computer based exhibitions. It includes a variety of human and computer interactions and could be ideal from user(s) interaction with data walls. Its community is made up of a diverse group of individuals that contribute to the design of human computer interactions and experiences with digital exhibitions. They include artists, developers, designers, museum professionals, technologists, and educators. The software if free for use by museums.
Cosma is a visualization tool that works on Windows and Mac operating systems. It is available in French and English. Its input are linked markdown text files and it creates an HTML network visualization of the files. There are many options to customize the visualization. The HTML visualization can be exported and shared unlike others tools in which only the static image of the visualization is share. This means that the data and the tools to explore it are shared simultaneously. Cosma is free to download, use and modify.
Archive Alert is an online platform that allows individuals, entities, groups, and organizations to report on archives and/or other cultural material which promotes cultural heritage (audiovisual material, maps, photographs, printed material, newspapers, posters, etc.). The users may report material they are in possession of, or material threatened by ignorance, negligence, or due to lack of expert human resources. Registered users can report on their own historical documents either to inform archival organizations, or to invite specialized staff to archive, file, preserve and utilize the material. The platform allows for anonymous or eponymous/public registration, and then, depending on the material reported, it automatically informs all organizations/entities that may be concerned. The platform is free for users-informants and archival organizations; any kind of buying and selling of archival and cultural material is strictly forbidden. The homepage and introduction pages are in English while the archive report section is only available in Greek. There are currently only two reports of archives in the website.
Twint is an advanced Twitter scraping tool written in Python that allows for scraping Tweets from Twitter profiles without using Twitter's API. Twint utilizes Twitter's search operators to let you scrape Tweets from specific users, scrape Tweets relating to certain topics, hashtags & trends, or sort out sensitive information from Tweets like e-mail and phone numbers. I find this very useful, and you can get really creative with it too. Twint also makes special queries to Twitter allowing you to also scrape a Twitter user's followers, Tweets a user has liked, and who they follow without any authentication, API, Selenium, or browser emulation. Recently it looks like Twitter has found a way to limit the number of tweets scraped using twint. Twint also has a visualizer and a desktop app is under development.
PubPub is a free open source publishing website. Its aim is to facilitate the creation and publishing of knowledge. It is an open-source, hosted, free-to-use content management system designed to help knowledge communities of all types collaboratively create and share knowledge online. PubPub’s flexible, extensible system allows communities to create the dynamic content that best represents their work, whether it’s a traditional academic journal, a book, a repository of interactive documents, a blog, all of the above, or something in between. If needed, PubPub then helps communities integrate their work into academic infrastructure like Crossref and Google Scholar without the need to remake it to conform to legacy expectations of how academic outputs are structured.
Reviews in Digital Humanities is a pilot of a peer-reviewed journal that facilitates scholarly evaluation of digital humanities work and its outputs. This may include, but is not limited to: digital archives, multimedia or multimodal scholarship, digital exhibits, visualizations, digital games, digital tools, and digital projects. The journal is hosted by PubPub. The journal responds to the challenge of the growth of the number and scale of digital projects outpacing review opportunities in existing journals. As such, it intervenes by bridging a gap in the evaluation of digital projects by arranging for peer review of digital scholarship. Project creators can submit their projects for review. RDH publishes monthly issues with an average of 5 reviews per issue. It also contains a registry of projects, some of which have not yet been reviewed. As of June 2022, Reviews in Digital Humanities has more than 76,800 page views, with 17,350+ unique users from 124 countries. Among fields of study for the projects we have reviewed, 30% of projects are in African diaspora studies, 21% are in Latinx studies, 9% are in Global Indigenous studies, and 19% are in Queer studies. The remaining 21% come from a variety of fields.
AUdiAnnotate is a web applications that is used to create IIIF file of audios and videos but adding annotations and/metadata. This makes the audiovisual material more accessible to users since the file can be queried using the metadata. Users will need a GitHub account to access the AudiAnnotate application and to host the files generated. The resulting IIIF object will be made available through an HTML link. The HTML files produced are hosted on GitHib and can be edited to change the way it if displayed. The AudiAnnotate is still active and the applications is constantly being updated. A review of AudiAnnotate can be found at https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/audiannotate/release/3
This is a digital archive that keeps a record of black people both free and enslaved involved in producing the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The archive starts in 1619. There are currently hundreds of records of blacks involved in 45 trades. The website has an interactive and searchable map.
Distant Viewing Toolkit is a Python package for the computational analysis of images and videos using computer vision algorithms. High level analysis produces semantic metadata from the for the digital collection which can then be search, visualized or analyses to identify differences and patterns. A good documentation of the methods of the module can be found in the tools GitHub page. A review of the tool can be found here https://reviewsindh.pubpub.org/pub/distant-viewing-toolkit/release/1
