Ernesto Priego

Fun Palaces Comic Maker: An Interview with Matt Finch

The Fun Palaces Comic Maker is now online. The Comic Maker is an online tool that allos the user to drag and drop pre-designed characters and props into a comic strip story of the users own devising. In this interview Dr Ernesto Priego talks to Dr Matt Finch, who conceptualised the Comic Maker. Dr Matt Finch discusses the concept behind the Fun Palaces Comic Maker, providing insights into the technical and cultural challenges faced and the potential for comics for public engagement in galleries, libraries and museums.

#Dataspring Idea: Streamlining Deposit: An OJS to Repository Plugin

Back in December 2014 we posted an idea on the “Research Data Spring” (also named “Research at Risk”), a collaborative initiative for UK Research hosted by Jisc. This is an idea we are hoping to develop in conjunction with the Centre for Information Science at City University London (#citylis) and the researcher-led open access publisher Ubiquity Press. We have slightly edited our original text and added text from a blog post by Ernesto Priego as part of the documentation process of the #dataspring sandpit workshop in Birmingham, Thursday 26 and Friday 27 February 2015.

Source Dataset for Online Attention to Digital Humanities Publications (#DH2014 poster)

This is the source dataset for Priego, Ernesto; Havemann, Leo; Atenas, Javiera (2014): Online Attention for Digital Humanities Publications (#DH2014 poster). figshare. http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.1094345 This dataset is based on an original report obtained with the Altmetric Explorer on April 23 2014. More recent reports are likely to vary. The original Altmetric Explorer data export was refined, modified and edited by Ernesto Priego, Leo Havemann and Javiera Atenas. This version might not reflect the latest versions used by the authors, and further refining might be required. This poster was presented in the Digital Humanities 2014 conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, July the 10th 2014, 2:00pm - 3:30pm. If you use, share or refer to this data please use the citation information above. This dataset is shared under a CC-BY license.

The Humanities Matter! Infographic

The Humanities are academic disciplines that seek to understand and interpret the human experience, from individuals to entire cultures, engaging in the discovery, preservation, and communication of the past and present record to enable a deeper understanding of contemporary society. The Humanities encompass literature, classics, ancient and modern languages, history, philoso - phy, media studies, the fine and performing arts, and other related subjects. It can be a challenge to show the benefits the Humanities bring: in this infographic we gather available evidence to show the Humanities matter!

Editorial: Welcome to a new era of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship

With this new stage of The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship we are starting a new adventure towards a fully-open access, fully-sustainable open peer-reviewed publishing platform for the 21st-century. We hope many of you will be willing to share the journey with us.

My Life with Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz; introduction by M. Thomas Inge (2010)

A review of My Life with Charlie Brown, Charles M. Schulz; introduction by M. Thomas Inge (2010) Jackson, MS: University of Mississippi Press, 193 pp. ISBN: 978-1-60473-448-5, Hardback,

Opening teaching landscapes: The importance of quality assurance in the delivery of open educational resources

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