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Topic Modeling and the Future of Ebooks
Ebook by Daniel Sancho CC BY 2.0 This semester I’ve had the pleasure of taking a course on Issues in Scholarly Communication with Dr. Maria Bonn at the University of Illinois iSchool. While we’ve...
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Choosing GIMP as a Photoshop Alternative
The GIMP logo. Image manipulation is a handy skill, but sinking time and money into Adobe Photoshop may not be an option for some people. If you’re looking for an alternative to Photoshop, GIMP is a...
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Spotlight: Open Culture
The Open Culture logo. The Internet is the world’s hub for culture. You can find anything and everything from high-definition scans of sixteenth-century art to pixel drawings created yesterday....
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What To Do When OCR Software Doesn’t Seem To Be Working
Optical character recognition can enhance your research! While optical character recognition (OCR) is a powerful tool, it’s not a perfect one. Inputting a document into an OCR software doesn’t...
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An Introduction to Traditional Knowledge Labels and Licenses
NOTE: While we are discussing matters relating to the law, this post is not meant as legal advice. Overview Fans of Mukurtu CMS, a digital archeology platform, as well as intellectual property nerds...
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Spotlight: PastPin
The PastPin logo. Who? What? Where? When? and Why? While these make up a catchy song from Spy Kids, they’re also questions that can get lost when looking at digital images, especially when metadata is...
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Spotlight: Library of Congress Labs
The Library of Congress Labs banner. It’s always exciting when an organization with as much influence and reach as the Library of Congress decides to do something different. Library of Congress Labs is...
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Spotlight: Unexpected Surprises in the Internet Archive
The Internet Archive. For most of us, our introduction to the Internet Archive was the Wayback Machine, a search engine that can show you snapshots of websites from the past. It’s always fun to watch a...
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What Storify Shutting Down Means to Us
The Storify logo. You may have heard that popular social media story platform Storify will be shutting down on May 16, 2018. Open to the public since 2011, it has hosted everything from academic...
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Celebrating Frederick Douglass with Crowdsourced Transcriptions
On February 14, 2018, the world celebrated Frederick Douglass’ 200th birthday. Douglass, the famed Black social reformer, abolitionist, writer and statesman, did not know the date of his birth, and...
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