A little while ago I posted some ideas for a project called OpenPhilosophy.org, which would enable users to transcribe, translate, annotate and create collections of philosophical texts which have entered the public domain. I’m very excited to say that the project has secured some funding from JISC, who champion digital technology for use in higher [...]
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Let’s make OpenPhilosophy.org!
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TEXTUS: an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata
Since finally blogging about OpenPhilosophy.org last month I’ve been thinking about how one could make a generic open source platform that could be used to power it, and other things like it. Enter ‘TEXTUS’: TEXTUS is an open source platform for working with collections of texts and metadata. It enables users to transcribe, translate, and [...]
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Picturing processes
There has been lots of wonderful work to represent numbers in pictorial form. Pictures can help to show us how big things are, how much of something there is, how much one thing is compared to another, how amounts change over time, and so on. We can use interactive graphics to represent quantitative data on [...]
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Who read what? Mapping influence in intellectual history
In my research I often wonder about whom and what the people I’m reading read. Did Wittgenstein read Nietzsche? Did Nietzsche read Hegel? Did Hegel read Shakespeare? Did Shakespeare read Chaucer? Did Chaucer read Sophocles? Knowing which texts a given writer was aware of (and which they probably weren’t aware of) can help us to [...]
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Visualising Europe’s Energy
For the last two weeks I’ve been working hard with some people at the Open Knowledge Foundation to make a new visual tool to make it easier to understand European energy. It was launched today to coincide with a big meeting on energy at the European Council in Brussels. You can find it here: http://energy.publicdata.eu/ [...]
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Interview in Zeit Online about open data in Europe
Last week I was interviewed by Zeit Online about the about the current state of open government data across Europe, and about the Eurostat Hackday which took place in several European cities last Thursday. The German translation of the interview is available on the Zeit Online website, and the full English version was published on [...]
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Where Does My Money Go? project proposal
Below is the original draft proposal for the Where does my money go? project, from 2nd April 2007: ‘Where does my money go?’: Promoting transparency and citizen engagement through interactive visualizations of government economic data 2nd April 2007 The British public have exceptional access to official documents and datasets detailing the operations of the official [...]
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