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Author: Colleen Nugent

News, Resources

Resource: Library as Incubator Project

The Project highlights the ways that libraries and artists can work together and features:

  • Visual artists, performing artists, and writers who use libraries in their communities for inspiration, information, and as gallery space
  • Collections, libraries and library staff that incubate the arts, and the ways that artists can use them effectively
  • Free-to-share resources for librarians looking to incubate the arts at their libraries
  • Ideas for artists looking to connect with their communities through library programming
CFPs & Conferences, Funding & Opportunities, News

CFP & Funding: Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities

These NEH grants support national or regional (multistate) training programs for scholars and advanced graduate students to broaden and extend their knowledge of digital humanities. Through these programs, NEH seeks to increase the number of humanities scholars using digital technology in their research and to broadly disseminate knowledge about advanced technology tools and methodologies relevant to the humanities.

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities and Game Studies Round-Up

Editors’ Note: Many scholars working in the Digital Humanities are thinking about the theory, design, and social and pedagogical impact of games. The posts below cover some of the variety of issues within this field. Further discussion will occur at THATCamp Games, January 20-22, 2012 at the University of Maryland-College Park. Please Tweet @dhnow or email dhnow [at] pressforward [dot] org if you have more to suggest. *updated 12/1/11*

News, Reports

Report: What Is Publishing? A Report from THATCamp Publishing

THATCamp Publishing in Baltimore, an “unconference” that explored some pressing new questions, such as

1. Who should publish digital scholarly research?
2. Should digital academic research be published by the university press, or the university library?
3. How should the process of peer review change?
4. And finally, who should provide the work that goes into producing a publication—editing, peer review, administration and graphics?

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Treating Texts as Individuals vs. Lumping Them Together

Ted Underwood has been talking up the advantages of the Mann-Whitney test over Dunning’s Log-likelihood which is currently more widely used. I’m having trouble getting M-W running on large numbers of texts as quickly as I’d like, but I’d say that his basic contention–that Dunning log-likelihood is frequently not the best method–is definitely true, and there’s a lot to like about rank-ordering tests.

Before I say anything about the specifics, though, I want to make a more general point first, about how we think about comparing groups of texts.The most important difference between these two tests rests on a much bigger question about how to treat the two corpuses we want to compare.