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On hoarding
Last month I went into an archive to look at some historic ledgers. Working through ledgers is a bit dull, but we need historians who see persistence and patience in the face of dullness as a virtue:...
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Metadata for all the British Museum Satires: part four
The project to do work with all the data in the Catalogue of Political and Personal Satires Preserved in the Department of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum has now moved from data wrangling...
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Digital History and being afraid of being insufficiently digital
This blog is cross-posted from the Institute of Historical Research Digital History seminar blog The A Big Data History of Music project uses metadata about sheet music publication to explore music...
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Objects from The Information Age
With research and teaching plans tumbling around my head, I visited the Science Museum yesterday to pick through the Information Age Gallery in the company of Oliver Carpenter, Curator of...
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Library Carpentry in words and numbers: all code, no woodwork
ERROR #librarycarpentry #citylis pic.twitter.com/0u4QTEsbne — Ernesto Priego (@ernestopriego) November 9, 2015 In November I ran a thing called ‘Library Carpentry’. It had nothing to do with woodwork....
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Interfaces between us and our digital sources
The extraction of these data from the archive is beset with problems that will be familiar to anyone who has explored ECCO. As is now well known, the optical character recognition (OCR) software used...
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This post was originally published at the Software Sustainability Institute blog. In 2017 the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee opened an inquiry into forensic science. The inquiry is...
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This post was originally published at the Software Sustainability Institute blog. In Part One of this blog series on the House of Lords Science and Technology Committee inquiry into forensic science,...
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