Category: Technology

  • Asynchronous Collaboration: A Proposal

    Asynchronous Collaboration: A Proposal

    As part of the FHSIO Call for Papers, I am submitting the following proposal as my contribution to furthering genealogy. The full proposal is available in a downloadable PDF at the end of this post, but let me give a brief outline here, which I’ll excerpt from the introduction: In addition to these benefits, the…

  • Digitizing print books for research and corpus integration

    Digitizing print books for research and corpus integration

    One of the bigests tasks in planning the dictionary I want to make is just collecting and organizing the data I’m basing my definitions on, and putting them into some kind of searchable interface. Part of this is building a corpus, and part is organizing other sources and references that can help me. Some of…

  • Google Fonts take off from the web

    Google Fonts take off from the web

    Web design has come a long way since the days of black text in a single font on a white background. Over the years typography on the web has jumped ahead, first to what were called ‘web safe’ fonts, which were a group of 18 fonts that were found on both Mac and Windows machines,…