Omeka is a free, flexible, and open source web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archives, and scholarly collections and exhibitions. Its “five-minute setup” makes launching an online exhibition as easy as launching a blog.
All the technai of Digital Humanities — data mining, XML encoding, text analysis, GIS, Web design, visualization, programming, tool design, database design, etc — involve building.
This paper explores how modern technologies like cloud-services and mobile
devices can improve existing transcription methods. After a brief exploration of
existing projects in the field of access, organisation, transcription and analysis of
digital representations of cultural heritage, this paper introduces a new approach,
unlike XML technology, to TEI data storage and organisation
Tesla (an acronym for Text Engineering Software Laboratory), is a Java-based open-source framework for computational linguistics, developed by the department of Computational Linguistics at the University of Cologne, Germany.
While the digital edition has made enormous progress since the advent of the web, there is also much that we still don't know how to achieve. I examine a number of editions and some things they have taught us. Then I discuss a few open questions regarding digital editions: how to involve volunteers in the creation and upkeep of the edition, how to lower the cost of creating editions and how to deal with threats to their longevity.
A. Di Iorio, S. Peroni, and F. Vitali. Proceedings of the 17th international conference on Knowledge engineering and management by the masses, page 391--400. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer-Verlag, (2010)