Blog: Global Perspectives on Digital History

http://gpdh.org/

Tools: The Virtual City

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3D geo-informatics has entered the digital age, hesitantly in some areas, and rampantly in others. Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are household names. Although limited to landscapes and buildings envelopes, their massive digital geographic libraries are today the playground of millions of people and the generator of new forms of content and applications with tremendous impact perspectives. However, these pale in comparison to those that will be made possible as soon as urban digital libraries will be fully available and exploitable.
Therefore, the V-City project aims to research, develop and validate an innovative system integrating the latest advances in Computer Vision, 3D Modelling and Virtual Reality for the rapid and cost-effective reconstruction, visualisation and exploitation of complete, large-scale and interactive urban environments. The focus of the project on urban environments is not only made possible by the latest technological advances, but also justified. Urban environments represent one of the most important and valuable cultural heritage as acknowledged by the UNESCO.
This system will enable historians, architects or archaeologists to reconstruct from existing data, study, understand, preserve or document urban environments using an innovative interactive 3D user interface. This project will progress beyond the current state of the art in the field of large-scale geospatial libraries built from multi-source and multi-format architectural and cultural information.
It will also be an answer to concrete needs for a wide range of users as demonstrated by the commitment and the diversity of the end-user organisations involved in the V-City User Group. These will contribute to both the definition of the system and its validation on real-scale scenarios."

http://vcity.diginext.fr/EN/index.html

Books: We-Think: Mass innovation, not mass production: The Power of Mass Creativity

Charles Leadbeater: We-Think: Mass Innovation, nit mass production: The Power of Mass Creativity

A Review-Post by G. Koller:

http://wethink.hypotheses.org/24

Tools: WebLicht

http://weblicht.sfs.uni-tuebingen.de/weblicht.shtml

WebLicht consists of a collection of web-based linguistic tools, a repository for storing and retrieving information about the tools, and this web application, which allows you to easily create and execute tool chains without downloading or installing any software on your computer.
WebLicht is the result of a collaborative effort of the following groups:

• BBAW: Berlin
• ASV: Uni-Leipzig
• IMS: Uni-Stuttgart
• SfS: Uni-Tübingen

Online-Recherche: Landeshauptarchiv Sachsen-Anhalt

http://recherche.lha.sachsen-anhalt.de/Query/suchinfo.aspx

Tools: Analyze image collections

QTIP is a free digital image processing application. It was developed by Multimodal Analysis Lab and National University of Singapore) and Software Studies Initiative at University of California, San Diego.

http://lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/02/qtip-software-analyze-image-collections.html

Tools: Old Maps Online

The OldMapsOnline Portal is an easy-to-use gateway to historical maps in libraries around the world.

It allows the user to search for online digital historical maps across numerous different collections via a geographical search. Search by typing a place-name or by clicking in the map window, and narrow by date. The search results provide a direct link to the map image on the website of the host institution.

 

http://project.oldmapsonline.org/

Books: Kodex-Jahrbuch 2011 - Die digitale Bibliothek

"Im Kodex, dem soeben im Harrassowitz Verlag erschienenen und von der LMU-Buchwissenschaftlerin Prof. Dr. Christine Haug mitherausgegebenen Jahrbuch der Internationalen Buchwissenschaftlichen Gesellschaft (IBG) greifen namhafte Buch-, Literatur-, Medien- und Kulturwissenschaftler, wissenschaftliche Bibliothekare sowie Experten aus der Verlagsbranche diese und andere Fragen auf. Auf die Suche nach dem Phantom und Phänomen der „Digitalen Bibliothek“ machen sich in ihren Beiträgen Thomas Stäcker (Wolfenbüttel), Frieder Schmidt (Leipzig), Stefan Münker (Berlin), Vincent Kaufmann (St. Gallen), Ernst Fischer (Mainz), Gerhard Lauer (Göttingen), Uwe Jochum (Konstanz), Eric W. Steihnauer (Hagen), Anke Vogel (Mainz), Dietrich Olms (Hildesheim) und Bozena I. Mierzejewska (St. Gallen)."

http://www.buchwissenschaft.uni-muenchen.de/forschung1/ibg/kodex20111/index.html