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Editors’ Choice: An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 & 2

An Intern Considers the Digital Preservation Challenge, Part 1 I came to NDIIPP expecting to hear that institutions and the public weren’t prioritizing digital preservation, and that the next wave of librarians would need to shout from the rooftops to raise awareness that digital objects are facing mass obsolescence. I expected a clear, clean outline […]

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Editors’ Choice: Teaching LDA with the Topic Modeling Game

In February, I visited Matthew Kirschenbaum’s #ENGL668K Introduction to Digital Humanities course at the University of Maryland, and I brought to class an activity that I had been mulling over in my own mind for a long time, called the Topic Modeling Game.  The game is designed to teach the basic principles of topic modeling with LDA […]