Scalar just got widgetized!
Scalar’s Grid Visualization Widget. For those who have used our Google Map, Timeline, Media Carousel or Visualization layouts and thought to yourself “I’d love to have these interactive components...
View ArticleScalar Webinars: Announcing Our Summer 2017 Schedule
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture will offer another series of free online webinars this fall. All webinars will feature our new interface, Scalar 2. Our “Introduction to Scalar” webinars will...
View ArticleScalar’s new path + context navigation system
We’ve added a few navigational features to the Scalar reading interface this week. We hope you like them. We’d like to thank the generous folks at the NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities for making...
View ArticleHeringman and Lake Awarded NEH Grant to Build a Scholarly Edition of Vetusta...
Noah Heringman, the Catherine Paine Middlebush professor of English at the University of Missouri and Crystal B. Lake, associate professor of English at Wright State University, have received a...
View ArticleThe Newberry Library
Newberry Library’s Transcribing Faith There’s been some great Scalar projects coming out of libraries and archives recently. People are finding innovative ways to showcase, annotate, visualize, map,...
View ArticleGive your Scalar Book a Little More Action! Using Videos in Splash and Image...
Ever wanted to have a clip from a feature film play in the background of a splash page in your Scalar book? Or have animation in the header of a page? Now you can! Adding a full-screen film clip to...
View ArticleInstallation Archive: A Capsule Aesthetic
Kate Mondloch’s new book, A Capsule Aesthetic: Feminist Materialisms in New Media Art (University of Minnesota Press, 2018) explores, in Mondloch’s own words, “how selected new media installations...
View ArticleDashboard update brings new look and new features
Starting today, Scalar users will be able to opt-in to a simplified, streamlined Dashboard interface that aims to make Scalar books easier to work with, while also adding in a few new features. The...
View ArticleAll new Editorial Workflow features debut with Scalar 2.5
Anyone who’s edited a work of digital scholarship can tell you the task comes with a unique set of challenges. Some are practical (“How do I know if I’ve read the whole thing?”) while others are...
View ArticleFrom Third Cinema to Media Justice: Third World Majority and the Promise of...
From Third Cinema to Media Justice: Third World Majority and the Promise of Third Cinema, edited by Kara Keeling and Thenmozhi Soundararajan has just been released as an online Scalar publication....
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