The Internet Archive is mostly known for archiving the web, a task the San Francisco-based nonprofit has tirelessly done since 1996, two years before Google was founded. The Wayback Machine now indexes over 435 billion webpages going back nearly 20 years, the largest archive of the web. Earlier this month, the Archive made headlines with the […]
For the past few years, I have been exploring the relationship between sentiment and plot shape in fiction. Earlier today I posted an R package titled “syuzhet” to github. The package is designed to extract sentiment and plot information from prose. Methods for text import, sentiment extraction, and plot arc modeling are described in the […]
From the post: The Library of Congress (LC) and OCLC Research have released the white paper, “Common Ground: Exploring Compatibilities Between the Linked Data Models of the Library of Congress and OCLC.” The paper, written by Carol Jean Godby (OCLC) and Ray Denenberg (LC), serves as an executive summary, published in advance of a “more detailed […]
From the post: The environment surrounding open access to monographs was significantly advanced today by the release of a report commissioned by the UK’s Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE), a quango (quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation) that translates the government’s higher education budget allocation into usable funds. In April 2014, HEFCE announced that eligibility to […]
From the announcement: More than 25,000 early English texts from 1473-1700 have been released online to members of the public as part of a collaborative initiative led by the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries and the University of Michigan Library. Source: Bodleian Libraries | Thousands of early English books released online to public by Bodleian […]
From the announcement: I am pleased to announce that “Moving People, Linking Lives: An Interdisciplinary Symposium” will take place March 20-21, 2015 at the University of Virginia. Presentations and workshops will open dialogue across different fields, periods, and methods, from textual interpretation to digital research. Invited participants include specialists on narrative theory and life writing, […]
From the announcement: WASHINGTON (January 15, 2015) — A new joint grant program by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seeks to give a second life to outstanding out-of-print books in the humanities by turning them into freely accessible e-books. Humanities Open Book: Unlocking Great Books | National […]
From the announcement: The Digital Archivist is dedicated to the preservation and access of digital and hybrid collections held within Digital Collections and Archives at Tufts University. The Digital Archivist’s primary focus will be to participate in the continued development and evolution of a digital preservation program within DCA. This work will include developing, implementing, […]
From the announcement: Reporting to the Director of the Institutional Repository (IR), the Data Curation Librarian is responsible for maintaining and managing LSU’s IR for both research data and scholarly works. The Data Curation librarian will be responsible for setting up “virtual research environments,” or the equivalent, as needed by externally funded research projects using […]
Research into the visualisation of large cultural heritage collections has emphasised that search is only one way of representing a collection. By focusing on the stylish minimalism of the search box, we discard opportunities for traversing relationships, for fostering serendipity, for seeing the big picture. By creating experimental interfaces, by playing around with our expectations, […]
