Walter J. Ong S.J. Center for Digital Humanities
Open Data is supposed to be accessible without any constraints to availability. The idea of authentication around Open Data is an oxymoron, but in practice we have found great benefit for keeping track of who can claim ownership to an object and how we can use ownership to put natural restrictions on the openness of […]
Versioning as it is known in software is simply the process of preserving previous iterations of a document when changes are made. There are many systems available to the developer which differ in centralization, cloning behaviors, delta encoding, etc., but for our purposes, the philosophy and utility should suffice. From a mile up, versioning resembles […]
View full catalogue record One use case that has recently captured our imagination in the Center is that posed by the updating of otherwise inaccessible objects. For example, if a user found a transcription annotation at the Wellcome Library which they wanted to update, but there was no accessible annotation service mentioned, that user may […]
Two complementary updates have popped up from OngCDH and our friends. The first extends the functionality of the The Mirador LDN Plugin to include more object types and the second is a new interface on the Rerum Inbox website which makes it easier for anyone to post supplemental content for public IIIF Manifests. Mirador IIIF […]