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hugh cayless commented on the post, The (in)adequacies of markup, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

Hi Adam,

I really only care about what’s practical. The theoretical arguments are interesting but weighted down by ideology. Maybe it’s worth taking another look at where we are technically though.

hugh cayless wrote a new post, The (in)adequacies of markup, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

(Last minute session idea)

This discussion comes around every few years, most recently on the Humanist list, starting here and continuing for many posts. The essence of it is an argument over whether embedding […]

hugh cayless commented on the post, All Courseware Sucks, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

I think Chad hit the nail on the head: courseware sucks because it’s Institutional Software. It responds to the the needs/desires/fears of the institution, not the individual teacher. It’s “Enterprisey.”

What are […]

hugh cayless commented on the post, From Scratch, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

This is a good topic. I think one answer perhaps is to think like a curator: there probably isn’t time to deeply analyse everything as you’re capturing data (photos, transcriptions, etc.), but you should try to […]

hugh cayless commented on the post, Building and designing projects for long term preservation, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

I think this is very important stuff. A few more ideas: plan for projects to expose their data in detachable, downloadable chunks (e.g. each record serialized as XML or HTML); choose well-documented formats; […]

hugh cayless commented on the post, Design Patterns for DH Projects, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

Sounds like there’s interest in linked data and design patterns too. For what it’s worth, I wrote a fairly detailed post on the linked data stuff I did for papyri.info on my blog. A lot of the things you’d want […]

hugh cayless wrote a new post, Design Patterns for DH Projects, on the site THATCamp CHNM 2010 right now

In my proposal, I listed 3 ideas:

1) I’ve recently started work on linked data for papyri.info, using data harvested from different parts of the collection and an RDF triplestore that provides entry points to the […]