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Prioritizing DataONE and Partner Tools for Screencasting, And: What is Fair Use? – Screencast Tutorials, Week #3

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Screencasting and Copyright Law If we make tutorials for third-party software, we will be showing someone else’s product. Such display of copies of artwork or music or film carries heavy legal implications, so the question becomes: what about showing footage of software? I am definitely not a lawyer, but I Continue reading Prioritizing DataONE and Partner Tools for Screencasting, And: What is Fair Use? – Screencast Tutorials, Week #3→

Choosing screencast software – Screencast Tutorials, Week #1

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After a successful face-to-face meeting in Santa Barbara between mentor and intern, we have a nine week project timeline. A major goal for this project this summer is to develop a workflow and templates for making screencasts as a product, so the beginning weeks will be spent researching tools (Week Continue reading Choosing screencast software – Screencast Tutorials, Week #1→

Web Scraping with Python Libraries

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The previous two notebook entries established some methods of text processing. The point is to create a file system populated with HTML formatted text documents. This permits the directory to be crawled and scraped. A common way to do this is with Python and Beautiful Soup. Beautiful Soup is a Python Continue reading Web Scraping with Python Libraries→

Text Processing Methods, Continued (PDF to HTML Conversion)

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I am continuing evaluation of some text processing tools that I began in an earlier open notebook post on the same topic. I also had an idea that perhaps I should open my PDF documents in Word, then re-save them as HTML.  That workflow might standardize the formatting to something less Continue reading Text Processing Methods, Continued (PDF to HTML Conversion)→