Digital Infrastructure

1. The Programming Historian (monograph)

2. Expanding Zotero (monograph)

3. Slidecast Competition (contest)

4. Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities (workshop)

5. Hacking as a Way of Knowing (workshop)

6. Notes on Knowledge Mobilization

7. Mobile and Place-Based Computing

8. Tangible Interfaces

	Leader: William J Turkel.(The University of Western Ontario) wturkel@uwo.ca
	Technical Staff: Adam Crymble. (The University of Western Ontario) acrymbl@uwo.ca

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We provide web space and technical support to NiCHE members whose projects or research could benefit from added exposure. In addition, we are working on a number of projects that explore new ways to present and study environmental history, as well as lessons aimed at researchers who want to learn new research techniques involving computers.


Programming Historian Available as PDF
So, You've Resisted Twitter, Good for you, but what have you missed?
Slidecast Competition - $1000 Grand Prize
API Workshop
Behind the scenes of the NiCHE website move

The DI is grateful for the following sources of funding:

SSHRC Strategic Research Clusters Grant, 2007-14
SSHRC Image, Text, Sounds and Technology Workshop Grant, 2008-09
SSHRC Image, Text, Sounds and Technology Grant, 2007-08
Research Western Internal Funding, 2007-12
SSHRC Research Development Initiatives Grant, 2005-07

Digital Infrastructure Work

The Programming Historian

By: William J. Turkel, Adam Crymble, Alan MacEachern.
An open-access introduction to programming in Python, aimed at working historians (and other humanists) with little previous experience.
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Photo Credit: "Motion Gears", R11.

Expanding Zotero

By: Adam Crymble
A series of projects that made Zotero more useful for Canadian researchers, and allowed researchers to customize the program to their own research needs.
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Image Credit: Adam Crymble.

NiCHE Slidecast Competition

NiCHE is sponsoring a slidecast competition to increase awareness of interesting topics in the study of history and environment. Grand prize, $1000. Contest open from Sept. 18 to Nov. 15, 2009
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Photo Credit: "Microphone", Hidde de Vries.

Workshop on APIs for the Digital Humanities

An international workshop devoted to developing a strategy for providing APIs that mesh seamlessly with one another, expose data that has remained inaccessible, and provide a platform for a new generation of online research.
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Photo Credit: "Detail of masonry construction on the city wall, Quebec City", Willy L.

Hacking as a Way of Knowing

A physical computing workshop that considered the problem of E-waste and looked at methods for learning from and repurposing articles that others have thrown away.
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Photo Credit: "Rereader for the Writing on the Wall", Adam Crymble.

Knowledge Mobilization

Edited by: Sean Kheraj, University of British Columbia
Is it time for more historians to re-think scholarly publishing? In what ways can an open-access and an open-source approach to publishing enhance knowledge mobilization?
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Photo Credit: "Give a Big Hand to...", Andrew Pescod