We are currently working with the team at DASG to develop a fully searchable database to house the songs we have catalogued as part of the Language in Lyrics project (read more on that here). In the meantime, we are releasing a spreadsheet of song metadata every week on Google Sheets which we hope will … Continue reading Song metadata in Google Sheets: Mac-Talla nan Cùl
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Song metadata in Google Sheets: Angus R. MacDonald MS
We posted an update on social media recently regarding the database which will eventually house all the songs we have catalogued as part of the Language in Lyrics project. We are delighted to be working with the technical team at the Digital Archives of Scottish Gaelic (DASG) who are building a very exciting database prototype … Continue reading Song metadata in Google Sheets: Angus R. MacDonald MS
#TechTuesday | What’s the Point of Digital? It’s the Kitchen Table
Welcome to the final post of the Kitchen Table series for #TechTuesday. It's gone so fast! But looking back, we've covered a lot of ground: Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for the Language in Lyrics project. (This is her kitchen table.) We began this Tech Tuesday series with an introduction to the unique challenges … Continue reading #TechTuesday | What’s the Point of Digital? It’s the Kitchen Table
#TechTuesday | How Organized Is Your Fridge? Content Management Systems Explained
Fàilte! Welcome back to #TechTuesday, and to our Kitchen Table series. We've been rocketing around various corners of the web with the last few posts, exploring WordPress and wikis. Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. In case you missed those, they are worth checking out here and here. This week's post … Continue reading #TechTuesday | How Organized Is Your Fridge? Content Management Systems Explained
#TechTuesday | More than Wikipedia: Wikis Explained
Fàilte! Welcome back to #TechTuesday. Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. Last time, we were talking all about WordPress, and the advantages and disadvantages of using WordPress.com and WordPress.org to create your own website. This time, we’re moving on to talk about another way to make your own website: wikis. While … Continue reading #TechTuesday | More than Wikipedia: Wikis Explained
#TechTuesday | So You Want to Start a Blog?: WordPress Explained
Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. Do bheatha gu #TechTuesday! Last time, we finished our survey of online Gaelic resources. But there was one particular one we purposely left out. If we had used our own website for Language in Lyrics as an example in the previous posts, we would've had … Continue reading #TechTuesday | So You Want to Start a Blog?: WordPress Explained
#TechTuesday | How It’s Made: Online Gaelic Resources in Scotland
Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. By Aleen Leigh Stanton Bliadhna mhath ùr dhuibh! Happy New Year to you all! We're back for another #TechTuesday. This is the second half of our detailed look into online Gaelic resources. Just like last time, we'll investigate how the sites are built, and how … Continue reading #TechTuesday | How It’s Made: Online Gaelic Resources in Scotland
#TechTuesday | How It’s Made: Online Gaelic Resources in Nova Scotia
Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. By Aleen Leigh StantonWelcome back to #TechTuesday and to our digital kitchen table. This week, we're going to be exploring the online Gaelic world in a bit more detail. We've talked a lot about context, about Digital Humanities, about philosophy. Now, we finally get to … Continue reading #TechTuesday | How It’s Made: Online Gaelic Resources in Nova Scotia
#TechTuesday | What on Google Earth are Digital Humanities? (Part 2)
By Aleen Leigh Stanton And just like that, it's #TechTuesday again. If you're new here, welcome; if you're visiting again, welcome back. This is the third post in the Kitchen Table series, and the second half of our discussion about Digital Humanities. Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. Last week we … Continue reading #TechTuesday | What on Google Earth are Digital Humanities? (Part 2)
#TechTuesday | What on Google Earth are Digital Humanities? (Part 1)
Aleen is the Digital Heritage Specialist for Language in Lyrics. By Aleen Leigh StantonWelcome back to #TechTuesday. In this second post in the Kitchen Table series, we are going to explore something we only mentioned in passing last time: digital humanities. Let’s gather round the (digital) kitchen table for another discussion and see if we … Continue reading #TechTuesday | What on Google Earth are Digital Humanities? (Part 1)
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