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Launch: Announcing Prism!

Prism is an experiment in visualizing many readings of a common set of texts, using concepts shared by its users–“the crowd.”  While the Praxis Program itself makes an intervention in graduate training, Prism is an intervention in the concept of crowd-sourcing, which until now has mostly made fact-checkers and copy editors of the crowd.  One of […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Why Use Visualizations to Study Poetry?

The research I am doing presently uses visualizations to show latent patterns that may be detected in a set of poems using computational tools, such as topic modeling. In particular, I’m looking at poetry that takes visual art as its subject, a genre called ekphrasis, in an attempt to distinguish the types of language poets […]

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Resource: TextGrid

TextGrid serves as a virtual research environment for philologists, linguists, musicologists and art historians. As a single point of entry to the virtual research environment, TextGridLab provides integrated access to specialized tools, services and content. TextGridRep is a long-term archive for research data in the humanities embedded in a grid infrastructure, which will ensure availability […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Academic Applications Manager, Pomona College

Pomona College is looking for a talented individual to join our service oriented department of Information Technology Services as an Academic Applications Manager with special emphasis on support for the growing needs of the faculty. This position is part of the Instructional Services team and works in close relationship with faculty to develop, maintain, troubleshoot, […]

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Job: Education Specialist, Dept. of New Media, National Museum of American History

This position is located within the Department of New Media, in the Office of Education and Public Programs of the National Museum of American History. The purpose of this position is to plan digital outreach initiatives that further the Museum’s mission and goals; manage and contribute to the publication of the Museum’s blog, social media, […]