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ORBIS Design Challenge
ORBIS Design Challenge Since its launch in May 2012, ORBIS has always been very popular. This is in spite of breaking some fundamental web design rules, such as placing the key interactive element on...
Elijah Meeks · September 3, 2013Kindred Britain Techniques 1: Permalinks on a Graph
Kindred Britain has a handful of patterns and functions that are rather novel in their creation or deployment. In this series, I'll be exploring the methodology and motivation for them, as well as go...
Elijah Meeks · August 28, 2013
Kindred Britain and Scholarship
Redundant as it may seem to say, Kindred Britain is a project that spans generations. Not only the generations of the database’s inhabitants, spread over the last thousand or so years as they are, but...
Emma Honour Mae... · August 26, 2013Kindred Britain: A sign of our times
Today marks the public release of Kindred Britain, a new interactive scholarly work that explores the role of family in British culture. Integrating geospatial, temporal, and network information visua...
Elijah Meeks · August 26, 2013Text Analysis IN the Library, FOR the Library
For those of you who don't know, I'm still fairly new to Stanford (as well as being new to what I lovingly refer to as "library land"). When I initially started my PhD in English, specializi...
Jacqueline Hettel · August 23, 2013Women in Programming (or the Lack Thereof)
When I first read Dave Winer’s blog post about the lack of women in programming, I braced myself. He suggests that women are not “very patient,” and that this explains why they are not very present in...
Emma Honour Mae... · August 22, 2013