Hello! I’m the lead developer of DH Box, and a librarian at Hunter College.

I can give a status update: we are still actively developing the project,
it is currently being used in a few classrooms in CUNY, but it is still a
work in progress. We hope to make DH Box available to everyone at some
point.

The project has room for contributors if anyone is interested. Docker
expertise would be especially helpful!

Stephen Zweibel
Visiting Reference Librarian
Hunter College
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On 10/21/14, 12:00 PM, "Pottinger, Hardy J." <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

>This reminds me of the the really awesome Data Science Toolkit project:
>
>http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/
>
>Just passing along the link, in case anyone else likes fun toys. :-)
>
>--Hardy
>
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>From: Code for Libraries [[log in to unmask]] on behalf of Owen
>Stephens [[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2014 10:09 AM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Linux distro for librarians
>
>This triggered a memory of a project that was putting together a
>ready-to-go toolset for Digital Humanities - which I then couldn't
>remember the details of - but luckily Twitter was able to remember it for
>me (thanks to @mackymoo https://twitter.com/mackymoo)
>
>The project is DH Box http://dhbox.org which tries to put together an
>environment suitable for DH work. I think that originally this was to be
>done via installation on the user's local machine, but due the challenges
>of dealing the variation in local environment they've now moved to a 'box
>in the cloud' approach (the change of direction is noted at
>http://dhbox.commons.gc.cuny.edu/blog/2014/dh-box-new-friend-new-platform#
>sthash.27THWR6E.dpbs). To be honest I'm not 100% sure where the project
>is right now, as although it looks like not much has been updated since
>May 2014.
>
>Owen
>
>Owen Stephens
>Owen Stephens Consulting
>Web: http://www.ostephens.com
>Email: [log in to unmask]
>Telephone: 0121 288 6936
>
>> On 21 Oct 2014, at 15:42, Brad Coffield <[log in to unmask]>
>>wrote:
>>
>> Is what you're really after is an environment pre-loaded with useful
>>tools
>> for various types of librarians? If so, maybe instead of rolling your
>>own
>> distro (and all the work and headache that involves, like a second
>> full-time job) maybe create software bundles for linux? Have a website
>> where you have lists of software by librarian type. Then make it easy
>>for
>> linux users to install them (repo's and what not) ((I haven't been
>>active
>> in linux for a while))
>>
>> Just thinking out loud.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Brad Coffield, MLIS
>> Assistant Information and Web Services Librarian
>> Saint Francis University
>> 814-472-3315
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