digital humanities: building online projects niall o’leary, ma, msc
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Digital Humanities:Building Online Projects
Niall O’Leary, MA, MSc
Introduction
DHO Project Manager (IT) with Digital Humanities Observatory
Funding ended August 2013
Independent consultant, trainer and developer
http://www.nialloleary.ie/
Websites
HTML
CSS
Web Editing Software Dreamweaver Google Web Designer Amaya Text Editors – TextPad, Komodo Edit, UltraEdit, Text
Wrangler
Websites: Getting Complex
More technologies More Complexity More Functionality
Client-side vs. Server-side
Client-side
Plug-ins
HTML 5
Javascript Not Java Libraries
Jquery, Mootools, Leaflet, D3, Exhibit
Using Javascript: Exhibit
Using Javascript: Exhibit
Exhibit: Maps
Exhibit: Timelines
Server-side
Programming Languages PHP, Java, C++, Python, Ruby, etc.
Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle
Repositories DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud
Heavy lifting Scalable Big Data Analysis Processing
DHO: Discovery
Leaving, crossing, arriving
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Scanned text files with minimal metadata
Script to convert to HTML TEI E-book Raw text
http://research.dho.ie/fng/index.php
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Bespoke CMS
Bespoke CMS
Content Management Systems
Bespoke Solution You get what you want Limited support
Off-the-Shelf solutions Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal Less flexible Large community of developers Huge array of third-party modules
Off-the-shelf CMS: Drupal
Drupal & TEI
Drupal & TEI
Editing in Drupal
Thank You
Niall O’Leary, Digital Humanities Specialist
www.nialloleary.ie