Topic modeling could stand in as a synecdoche of digital humanities. It is distant reading in the most pure sense: focused on corpora and not individual texts, treating the works themselves as unceremonious “buckets of words,” and providing seductive but obscure results in the forms of easily interpreted (and manipulated) “topics.” In its most commonly […]
Teaching Resources for GIS Educators. Teachers and learners of GIS, and related geo-technologies, want to increase the rewards while we lower the frustrations. This site, created by instructors and for instructors, is designed to support our educational community of practice.
The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture » Overview. Scalar is a free, open source authoring and publishing platform that’s designed to make it easy for authors to write long-form, born-digital scholarship online. Scalar enables users to assemble media from multiple sources and juxtapose them with their own writing in a variety of ways, with minimal technical expertise required. More […]
Starting Analysis and Visualisation of Spatial Data with R | Spatial Analysis. Last week I ran an introductory workshop on the analysis and visualisation of spatial data with R. The software has become established as one of the best around for statistics and it is becoming increasingly recognised as a tool for data visualisation (I wrote […]
Head, Digital Initiatives | Library | University of Waterloo The University of Waterloo Library seeks a creative, dynamic and public service oriented professional librarian to fill a leadership position as Head, Digital Initiatives. The position offers an exciting opportunity for a visionary leader to build on past and present achievements and to move the digital […]
Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics is a freely available title published by OpenBooks via Resource: Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics | Eduhacker.
You will find links to both individual files and a folder containing all of materials used during the session. The materials are designed to be used sequentially, though some of them can stand alone. The documents offer probing questions, tip sheets, and guides that are useful when you begin developing a project. In case you […]
Historic documents often contain handwriting, old fonts, or other text formats that OCR software can’t handle. We need humans–from volunteers to paid staff–to read the document images and transcribe what they see into databases which can be searched, analyzed, crawled, and used by researchers. Until now those efforts have required organizations either to outsource indexing […]
Abstract We report here trends in the usage of “mood” words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all books published up to the year 2008. We find evidence for distinct historical periods of positive […]
For the first time, significant portions of the New York Public Library’s digitized collections are available as machine-readable data: over 1 million objects and records for you to search, crawl and compute. ApiService.
