Presentation Markdown Preparing Presentations with Markdown Tired of presentations made with a full-featured (as in: full of features you are never going to use) software suite stored in unhandy proprietary formats? OK, I am sorry for this rhetorical question.
Gamification Die Wissenschaft retten und dabei Spaß haben Von Athanasios Mazarakis und Paula Bräuer Eine Teilprojektvorstellung unseres Partners CAU Kiel zum Projekt OA-FWM Das vom BMBF geförderte Projekt „Fachspezifische OA-Workshops und Bereitstellung von OA-Materialien - OA-FWM“ zielt darauf ab, insbesondere die
Sustainability Research Software Sustainability The Alliance of German Science Organisations has recently published its “Recommendations on the Development, Use and Provision of Research Software”, in English and German. Research software has been an emerging subject in recent
Agile Agility I just stumbled over a nice post and became inspired writing about agility in our teams, how we got there, how we use it and how it may fail. The intellectual foundation for
Tools Symfony A Simple CRUD Application with Symfony Create Read Update Delete — these operations describe the most common tasks a relational database is used for. A common task on top of that, is to build interfaces for users, to execute
Gis Map Visualization Geodata Be kind to your users-use a map application “The application of GIS is limited only by the imagination of those who use it”. ~ Jack Dangermond , ESRI Just because you have some geographical data doesn’t mean you should always map
Tools Dariah Puppet Config Management This blog post accompanies my DH-Tech talk about config management. tl;dr: There is a recording available. Problems with infrastructure administration Operating an infrastructure can be hard. Among the most common problems is that
Tools Jekyll (S)FTP and Gitlab CI Sometimes the most sophisticated deployment strategies and infrastructure models can unfortunatly not be shifted into the real life, so one has to go back a few decades and use tools from that time
Sade Xquery Tests A Testscenario for EXPath Packages Since a couple of years we prepare applications for the eXist-db ecosystem based on the EXPath Package standard. Last week we setup the first test environment. No questions; no excuses: Tests are extremely
Wikidata Wikidata Do-A-Thon A Do-A-Thon event took place at the SUB on the 14th and 15th February that brought members from the Göttingen Campus and the Wikidata community together in order to dive into the world
