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Resource: Forking, Fetching, Pushing, Pulling

Scholars’ Lab. Even though a lot of open source projects encourage folks to look at the code and modify it, they don’t just let anyone add anything back to the original project. Projects usually have one or several people with direct commit access, who don’t need permission to do commits. This doesn’t mean you can’t […]

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Resource: CORPORA: 45-450 million words each

CORPORA: 45-450 million words each: free online access. These corpora were created by Mark Davies, Professor of Linguistics at Brigham Young University. They have many different uses, including: finding out how native speakers actually speak and write; looking at language variation and change; finding the frequency of words, phrases, and collocates; and designing authentic language teaching materials and resources. The […]

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Resource: University of Victoria – Transgender Archives

University of Victoria – Transgender Archives The University of Victoria has committed itself to the preservation of the history of pioneering activists, community leaders, and researchers who have contributed to the betterment of transgender people. The UVic Archives have been actively acquiring documents, rare publications, and memorabilia of persons and organizations associated with transgender activism […]

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Resource: Animating History: How to Build a Simulation for History Education

We’re a visual species, we humans. History is often learned best when its words are accompanied with charts and maps, diagrams and photos. I love looking at these pictures to get different perspectives about the events they document. I’m a software developer rather than an historian, but I think the simulation software I’ve developed can […]

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Resource: (New) Humanist Discussion Group

(New) Humanist Discussion Group. The online world is now simply part of what most humanists in the developed world do, so much so that we may wonder if the digital humanities, like the state in Marxist theory, will soon wither away. The same question might be asked about Humanist, since the Web is now populated by […]

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Resource: Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation

Five Tips for Getting Started on a Digital Humanities Dissertation | Literature Geek. As you might have noticed from this blog and my tweets, I’m in the opening act of what promises to be an exciting and non-traditional doctoral literature dissertation. I’ll be blogging the actual content of the dissertation in the months to come, but […]