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Today I learned a rake was an 18th century playboy, while researching Francis Dashwood the 11th Baron le Despence. Look at that...
The Lab hosts several work-study students each year. Last term, Karen worked on data entry for Itinera (and helpfully logged bugs...
This semester, Aisling and I are collaborating on all aspects of lab work, including the DH (digital humanities) initiatives,...
Hot off the presses - the Visual Media Workshop newsletter [1]. If you're wondering about what's been cooking lately in FFA 116,...
This painting, attributed to William Theed, represents a Grand Tour that I would readily embark on, replete with breathtaking...
When I think about dates being vague, I do not think of days, weeks, months, or years.  My mind automatically goes to everything...
Play the song as you read. :) I GOT A SECRET FORMULA: for all the ways to write the dates for the two different types of date...
Michelle Moravec gave an awesome "lightning talk" at THATCamp 2014, about how she moved from visualization to question and back,...
That past two days I spent geeking out with folks from universities, research institutes, labs, The Getty, art e-commerce ventures...
The CRAAP Test tortured me throughout high school.  I used it in basically everyone of my classes.  But honestly, it taught me a...
We tested user data today on the front end of the itinera database website. We got to understand and test out itinera's usability...
At first I was like, that's cool, then I read the by-line: "The Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon was an international initiative...
Cool! Middlebury made a Summer Institute for Itinera! Middlebury, Vermont, August 3 - 15, 2014 Deadline: Mar 3, 2014...
What makes this call for applications especially cool is the application process: not a long, complicated series of forms, with...
When I set off researching Nicholas Revett, I started with the biological information, which turned out to be fairly easy.  Despite...
     I thought that the activity we did today was the most fun so far of what we've done here at the Lab. Taking information and...
Last Friday we learned about Metadata. If you googled metadata you would find that metadata is data about data. But that's the very...
On Friday we learned about metadata, a topic I had never heard of previously, but was nonetheless interesting.  I never really...