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drjwbaker / 2017-03-14_Adams-IHRDigHist.md
Last active March 14, 2017 18:22
Robyn Adams, Building a Library without Walls: the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, IHR Digital History Seminar, 14 March 2017

Robyn Adams, Building a Library without Walls: the Centre for Editing Lives and Letters, IHR Digital History Seminar, 14 March 2017

Live notes, so an incomplete, partial record of what actually happened.

Tags: dhist

My asides in {}

Stream/Deck: https://www.bsecs.org.uk/conferences/annual-conference/

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drjwbaker / pastec-beyondblackbox.md
Created February 9, 2017 08:34
Pastec Workshop, Beyond the Black Box, 8 February 2017

Pastec Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 8 February 2017

Instructor

James Baker, University of Sussex

Beyond the Black Box

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drjwbaker / 2017-01-31_IHRdighist-McClelland.md
Last active February 1, 2017 08:19
Keith McClelland, Documenting British slave-owners in the Carribbean c.1763-c.1860, IHR Digital History Seminar, 31 January 2017
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drjwbaker / 2017-01-20_Pastec-Edinburgh-handout.md
Last active February 8, 2017 16:43
Pastec Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 8 February 2017

Pastec Workshop, University of Edinburgh, 8 February 2017

Instructor

James Baker, University of Sussex

Slides

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drjwbaker / 2016-01_BSECS.md
Last active January 6, 2017 12:25
British Society of Eighteenth Century Studies Annual Conference, St Hughs Oxford, 4-6 January 2017
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drjwbaker / 2016-12-07_DST4L.md
Last active December 9, 2016 10:57
Data Science Training for Librarians, DTU Denmark, 7-9 December 2016

Data Science Training for Librarians, DTU Denmark, 7-9 December 2016

Live notes, so an incomplete, partial record of what actually happened.

Tags: dst4l

My asides in {}

Stream/Deck: http://www.dst4l.info/schedule.html

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drjwbaker / ocr.py
Last active December 5, 2016 17:35
Tesseract OCR Engine
import pytesseract
import requests
from PIL import Image
from PIL import ImageFilter
from StringIO import StringIO
def process_image(url):
image = _get_image(url)
# image = image.resize( [int(2 * s) for s in image.size] )
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drjwbaker / 2016-11-08_IHRdighist-Finley.md
Created November 8, 2016 17:51
Will Finley, The Pictorial Publisher: Agents, Technologies and the Illustrated Book in Britain, 1830-1850
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drjwbaker / 2016-11-07_BLLabs.md
Last active November 7, 2016 16:19
British Library Labs Symposium 2016, British Library, 7 November 2016

British Library Labs Symposium 2016, British Library, 7 November 2016

Live notes, so an incomplete, partial record of what actually happened.

Tag: bldigital

Melissa Terras , Unexpected Repurposing: The BL's digital collections and UCL teaching, research and infrastructure

Mandates require you to make things available. But digital materials really fragile: look at what was funded circa 2000 by the Lottery New Opportunities Fund. What has improved this: standards, licensing, repos/infrastructure. All coalesced into openglam: have a go, have a play ethos.

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drjwbaker / 2016-09-02_Documenting-History-workshop.md
Last active September 5, 2016 16:39
Documenting History Workshop, 5-6 September 2016

Documenting History Workshop

Notes from Documenting History, Loughborough University, 5-6 September 2016

The following text represents my notes rather than precisely what was said on the day and should be taken in that spirit.

Programme

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