Creating maps as a way to communicate data is becoming increasingly popular across and integrated into a broader set of academic disciplines. In the humanities, mapping is often used to create visual and interactive objects …
Tools
Tool: Tropy
What Is Tropy? Tropy is a free and open-source software tool for the collection, organization, description, and sharing of digital photographs that researchers take during their research. Funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the …
Refresh Your Data Management Savvy This New Year
Happy New Year’s! The start of a new year and a new semester are as good a time as ever to evaluate your data management practices. Here are some reminders about data management best practices, …
Tool: Scalar
What Is Scalar? Scalar is a free and open-source authoring and publishing platform that allows users to integrate multiple media types into born-digital scholarly works. Built by the Alliance for Networking Visual Culture, Scalar allows …
OpenCitations Enhances Citation Data with COCI
OpenCitations has been working toward enhancing citations to make citation data more easily discoverable and retrievable. In July, OpenCitations released COCI, the OpenCitations Index of Crossref open DOI-to-DOI references. The initial release of COCI created …
Tool: Kaggle
What Is Kaggle? Kaggle is an online community of data scientists and machine learners, owned by Google. Kaggle began in 2017 as a site that offered machine learning competitions, and has since expanded into a …
New Tools From the Workshop on Open Citations
From September 3-5, the Workshop on Open Citations was held in Bologna: researchers, scholarly publishers, funders, policy makers, and advocates for open citations gathered to present new tools and practices for the creation, management, and …