Digital Humanities:Building Online Projects

Niall O’Leary, MA, MSc

Introduction

DHO Project Manager (IT) with Digital Humanities Observatory

Funding ended August 2013

Independent consultant, trainer and developer

http://www.nialloleary.ie/

Websites

HTML

CSS

Web Editing Software Dreamweaver Google Web Designer Amaya Text Editors – TextPad, Komodo Edit, UltraEdit, Text

Wrangler

Websites: Getting Complex

More technologies More Complexity More Functionality

Client-side vs. Server-side

Client-side

Plug-ins

HTML 5

Javascript Not Java Libraries

Jquery, Mootools, Leaflet, D3, Exhibit

Using Javascript: Exhibit

Using Javascript: Exhibit

Exhibit: Maps

Exhibit: Timelines

Server-side

Programming Languages PHP, Java, C++, Python, Ruby, etc.

Databases MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle

Repositories DSpace, Fedora and DuraCloud

Heavy lifting Scalable Big Data Analysis Processing

DHO: Discovery

Leaving, crossing, arriving

Focloir na Nua Ghaeilge

Scanned text files with minimal metadata

Script to convert to HTML TEI E-book Raw text

http://research.dho.ie/fng/index.php

Focloir na Nua Ghaeilge

Bespoke CMS

Bespoke CMS

Content Management Systems

Bespoke Solution You get what you want Limited support

Off-the-Shelf solutions Wordpress, Joomla, Drupal Less flexible Large community of developers Huge array of third-party modules

Off-the-shelf CMS: Drupal

Drupal & TEI

Drupal & TEI

Editing in Drupal

Thank You

Niall O’Leary, Digital Humanities Specialist

info@nialloleary.ie

www.nialloleary.ie