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Douglas Knox commented on the post, Session notes from THATCampSTL, on the site THATCamp St. Louis 2013

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 02:00:47 +0000

As a footnote for the record, Aaron Addison got us off to a great start as the session leader for the Time Series group. He had to leave early and I agreed to submit notes, any limitations of which are my own.

Douglas Knox wrote a new post, THATCamp's magic, on the site THATCamp St. Louis 2013

Tue, 19 Nov 2013 01:57:01 +0000

Thanks to all who attended and who organized, especially the thoughtful and thorough Olin Library staff.

There’s always some kind of magic at a THATCamp, including the mystery that there will never be enough […]

Douglas Knox wrote a new post, Databases Before Digital, on the site THATCamp St. Louis 2013

Tue, 05 Nov 2013 15:25:36 +0000

Among the many cultural heritage materials that are now in digital form are things that were organized as “data” in some sense even before they were digital: reference works, indexes, directories, concordances, […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Open Peer Review, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Sun, 16 May 2010 02:51:39 +0000

These are great questions, and look like they may be in a strategic sequence. I have seen some quite successful examples of communities of interest that meet regularly face-to-face to discuss work in progress, […]

Douglas Knox wrote a new post, Chronicling America: They gave us an API. What do we do now?, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010

Fri, 14 May 2010 03:28:27 +0000

Chronicling America is a brilliantly engineered digital collection of historically important material that, because of its API, and because of the understanding that “the Web is the API,” could be an exemplary […]

Douglas Knox wrote a new post, Easy readers, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 04:05:55 +0000

At THATCamp ’08 I learned how to draw a smiley face with a few geometric programming commands.

Dan Chudnov demonstrated how to download Processing, a Java-based environment intended for designers, visual artists, […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Standards, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 04:55:59 +0000

Definitely worth discussing. I’ve been thinking for a while that there is an opportunity for history, especially, to be in productive tension with the vision of semantic web. Though I am quite interested to see […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Context and connections, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 04:21:13 +0000

Musebrarian: what you saw sounds like http://www.jeffersonstravels.org/ from the Virginia Center for Digital History in collaboration with the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.

This topic interests me […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, An installation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2009

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:22:15 +0000

A visual installation sounds like a great idea, and could generate some interesting discussion. Since you asked for feedback on the visual message of the installation as you described it, I find myself wondering […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Continuing our discussions & a suggested topic, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Mon, 16 Jun 2008 04:03:47 +0000

From what I have read, it seems that the greatest strength of Bamboo in the early phases is less a specific architectural vision or approach than a commitment to bringing together a range of participants to make […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, a moveable feast, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Sat, 31 May 2008 00:02:07 +0000

The Temporal Modeling project was (is!) great, ahead of its time. I would love to hear more about it. From the outside, it seemed to me the project succeeded in defining an ambitious vision fully grounded in the […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Elle, Edmonde Charles-Roux. The role of biographers, fashion and Coco Chanel, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Thu, 29 May 2008 20:45:32 +0000

Responding to Adam’s thoughtful suggestion in a comment elsewhere, I would be glad to show the little bit that I know about Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) and about Django. I could also dig out a knotty historical […]

Douglas Knox wrote a new post, Beyond citation and search, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Thu, 29 May 2008 04:21:29 +0000

My original THATCamp proposal mentioned some playing around I have done under the inspiration of Bill Turkel’s mapping of libraries that hold copies of William Cronon’s Nature’s Metropolis.

I adapted Bill’s […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Challenges to Historical Visualization: the Need for an Event Standard, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:26:43 +0000

This session idea overlaps with some things I have been thinking about, but I would like to push the skeptical angle further. I’m all in favor of exploring creative approaches to visualization and linking of […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, The Joys of RDF, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Thu, 08 May 2008 23:08:20 +0000

I’m not using RDF (other than playing with some of the Simile tools) but would like to hear the experience of people who are. If anybody has given any thought to Topic Maps, I would be interested in talking about […]

Douglas Knox commented on the post, Making things, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2008

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:59:05 +0000

Please add me to the list. The how-to does sound like fun, and I’d also like to hear more about the “history appliance” idea and how this can relate to the humanities.