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A colleague of mine recently ran into the surprise of just how much it costs to have a scholarly article published under an open access license and very much did not want to pay the hefty Article Processing Charge and ended up looking for different avenues in which to make their article openly available for … Continue reading Getting Started with ORCID and LISSA →

Played around with the Lite Brite a bit more and took a baker's dozen photographs as I kept adding pegs to the board. Followed that up with a fun Sunday morning playing around with the Photos app in Windows 10 which is a surprisingly fun little movie making utility. The results: https://twitter.com/johndewees/status/1287420349957668865

This post will provide an overview of how to upload resources using the CONTENTdm (CDM) Project Client using the tab-delimited text file (TDTF) along with a number of errors to avoid during this process. This whole blog post is written assuming a Windows environment, sorry Mac users. Also I apologize that the section discussing errors … Continue reading CONTENTdm: Uploading via Tab-Delimited Text File →

In 2019 myself and a colleague endeavored to find a straightforward way to collect email newsletters being regularly distributed by Toledo/Lucas County-area organization such as the art museum or city government to keep their audiences informed. The initial formulation of this was to use Zapier to create a lightweight action where an email would be … Continue reading Quick-and-Dirty Email Archiving (But Different) →

I've always really enjoyed the aesthetic of out of focus lights in photography, in particular the hyperspecific subgenre of shot whereby someone inside a rain-slicked car at night takes a photo looking out the car, focused on the water droplets with the lights of other cars and the city blurry in the background. I've got … Continue reading Quarantine Photography, Part 1 →