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CFP: CNI Spring Meeting

From the Call: Proposals are now being accepted for project briefings to be presented at CNI’s Spring 2018 Membership Meeting on April 12-13 in San Diego, CA, at the Westin Gaslamp Quarter. Please note that this year’s spring meeting will fall on THURSDAY & FRIDAY. Project briefings are 30-minute, 45-minute or one-hour sessions that focus on a discussion of a […]

News, Resources

Resource: Python Programming for the Humanities

From the Resource: The programming language Python is widely used within many scientific domains nowadays and the language is readily accessible to scholars from the Humanities. Python is an excellent choice for dealing with (linguistic as well as literary) textual data, which is so typical of the Humanities. In this book you will be thoroughly […]

Editors' Choice

Editors’ Choice: Distant Reading after Moretti

The question I want to explore today is this: what do we do about distant reading, now that we know that Franco Moretti, the man who coined the phrase “distant reading,” and who remains its most famous exemplar, is among the men named as a result of the #MeToo movement. I feel deeply for his […]

News, Resources

Resource: Transverse Reading Gallery

From the Resource: This site focuses on mapping the plot structures of interactive narratives, and in particular gamebooks – that is, playable print stories. The project data mines, analyzes, and visualizes the branching plot structures of hundreds of interactive stories, with examples from different decades, nations, and languages. Find the site here: Transverse Reading Gallery

Blog, Editors' Choice

DHNow: 2017 in Review

Digital Humanities Now will be taking a break until January 9, but before we go, we’d like to take the time to wrap up 2017. This November marked nine years of publication for Digital Humanities Now. Through the work of our dedicated staff and our generous community of volunteer editors, DHNow continues to build a new model for scholarly communication based on open scholarship, community […]

News, Reports

Report: “All of the Questions” – A Recap of the 2017 BUDSC Pre-Conference

From the report: How do we engage students in digital scholarship and support instructors as they incorporate DH or DS practices in their traditional classes? The BUDSC pre-conference was initially convened around these concerns and charged with the task of developing a “DS Cookbook” featuring ideas, best practices, and resources for instructors looking to include […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: Digital Research in Early America, WMQ-UC, IRVINE Workshop

From the CFP: We seek scholars at all levels and positions who are producing analytic research on early American studies using computational techniques. This might include those working on language and text analysis, such as topic modeling or word vectors; mapping and geospatial modeling; quantitative analysis of archival databases; or other computational approaches that allow […]