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News, Reports

Report: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings

From the posting: We are pleased to announce that content from the Virtual Symposium on Information and Technology in the Arts and Humanities is now available for viewing or download on YouTube and figshare. Presenter slides are available at http://figshare.com/authors/Symposium_on_Information_and_technolology_in_the_arts_and_humanities/740215 Symposium presentation recordings are available at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2v-vQy9W5DeXsuC5-l-T65WgFrPFKNDk Source: 2016 Virtual Symposium Proceedings | ASIS&T SIG AH

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Editors’ Choice: Technology changes how authors write, but the big impact isn’t on their style

But what can writing tools and writing machines really tell us about writing? Having just published my book “Track Changes” on the literary history of word processing, I found such questions were much on my mind. Every interviewer I spoke with wanted to know how computers had changed literary style. Sometimes they meant style for […]

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Editors’ Choice: Open Thread: Public Memory & Pokemon Go

Given how Pokemon Go has kicked up controversy around how it uses public sites of memory and conscience, without in any way considering if it is appropriate to do so, I figured I would pull together some quotes and links and open this up as a point for discussion about the broader issues it opens up. […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship Librarian, Boston College

From the posting: The Digital Scholarship Librarian will employ both experience with History research methods and technical expertise to advance the integration of library liaison responsibilities and digital humanities to the History Department. We are seeking a creative librarian familiar with History collections and instruction who is motivated to investigate new tools and collaborate with faculty, students, and […]

CFPs & Conferences, News

CFP: International Digital Humanities Symposium (Växjö, Sweden) | EADH – The European Association for Digital Humanities

From the CFP: This International Digital Humanities Symposium will take place in Växjö, Sweden, 7-8 November. The symposium invites and challenges Nordic and European researchers and practitioners in related disciplines to Digital Humanities (DH) to present, discuss and demonstrate different possibilities, current efforts and upcoming trends in this emergent field. Source: CfP: International Digital Humanities […]

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Editors’ Choice: Metadata Analytics, Visualization, and Optimization

This paper presents the concepts of metadata assessment and “quantification”, provides a technical outline of data pre-processing, and proposes some visualization techniques that can help us understand metadata characteristics in a given context. Additionally, the closing sections introduce the concept of metadata optimization and explore the use of machine learning techniques to optimize metadata in […]

Job Announcements, News

Job: Digital Scholarship & Repository Analyst

From the posting: Under the direction of the Head of Digital Scholarship and Data Curation, the Digital Scholarship & Repository Analyst (Analyst) provides technical expertise to support the development of innovative digital scholarship and data curation programs at the UConn Library. Source: Professional Employment Opportunities

Reports

Report: NLM Workshop: Images and Texts in Medical History

From the report: Seventy-five participants and observers gathered at the Natcher Conference Center (Building 45) in April 2016 to explore innovative methods and data sources useful for analyzing large quantities of images and texts in the field of medical history. … Workshop participants exchanged ideas on a variety of related topics, including current best practices in […]

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Editors’ Choice: Geographical Text Analysis: A new approach to understanding nineteenth-century mortality

This paper uses a combination of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and corpus linguistic analysis to extract and analyse disease related keywords from the Registrar-General’s Decennial Supplements. Combined with known mortality figures, this provides, for the first time, a spatial picture of the relationship between the Registrar-General’s discussion of disease and deaths in England and Wales […]