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 

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

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 

Focloir na Nua Ghaeilge

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

Editing in Drupal

Thank You  Niall O’Leary, Digital Humanities Specialist  