As we move forward with our process in developing new skills, I am thinking about how best to evaluate new technologies. Advice suggests we shouldn’t get overly enamored without first thinking about how that new technology applies to what we hope to achieve. Advice also suggests we need to test...
I decided to look at free web based image editors and think Pixlr is one of the better ones out there. It is not as robust as Photoshop but provides most essentials for photo-editing. It also provides function for image design. The interface seems to be modeled on Photoshop with...
Known today as St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, the hospital was founded by William Augustus Muhlenberg in 1846 and started admitting patients in 1858. It was located at 5th Avenue and 54th Street before moving to its location on Amsterdam Avenue and 114th Street in 1896. Initially, the hospital occupied five...
New things: I learned about using snake (jj_jjj) and camel font (jjJj) for naming. The importance of creating a WWW folder for web project content. Git is useful for tracking changes and creating a history of changes. We will be working in a virtual space on our local computers -...
Things I learned from today’s session. Alex did a great job defining differences between Git and GitHub. Git is the tool that manages the source code and history of changes. GitHub is the service that hosts repositories – it is the cloud. Notepad++ is a good text editor for Windows...
We welcomed Micah Vandergrift from Florida State University to our meeting. Micah was in residence at Columbia for the week meeting with colleagues in the Center for Digital Research and Scholarship (CDRS) and other units. He expressed interest in our project as a model for involving more librarians in digital...
Our agenda for the July 1 meeting focused on our individual research projects and an update from the research team. Before we began our discussion, we welcomed a visitor – Anna Kijas from the University of Connecticut. Anna is interested in the Developing Librarian Project as a model for UCONN...
At our last group meeting on December 16, 2014, we agreed to a February 2, 2015 launch for the project. This provided what we thought would be adequate time to develop our exhibits. Before, during, and after the holidays there was a lot of activity in our Omeka site –...
New Appointments John and I met with Alex to discuss new appointments for Design Team members as the work of this group is winding down. Anice will move to the Editorial Team. Sarah will fully focus on Development Team. Karen was away – we will consult with her on new...
Fall is here and the second phase of the Developing Librarian training program has begun. We are scheduled to meet every other week (Tuesdays 9:30-11am) and will focus work and discussion on tools and methods appropriate to the digital humanities at Columbia. Required Reading | Viewing: Digital Humanities in the...
Two years ago we announced a professional development program in the Columbia University Libraries for the Humanities & History Division. In our first iteration of the Developing Librarian project or, as we refer to it on social media, the #devlib project, our goal was to build a common project using...