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Editors’ Choice: The Poetics of Non-Consumptive Reading

“Non-consumptive research” is the term digital humanities scholars use to describe the large-scale analysis of a texts—say topic modeling millions of books or data-mining tens of thousands of court cases. In non-consumptive research, a text is not read by a scholar so much as it is processed by a machine. The phrase frequently appears in […]

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Editors’s Choice: RDF: Resource Description Failures and Linked Data Letdowns

Thinking about modeling your data using Resource Description Framework (RDF)? As with any choice of technology, there are benefits and downsides, appropriate situations for Linked Data and use cases that would be fulfilled more effectively by other frameworks. This presentation will focus on the pitfalls to avoid and the challenges of using graphs that are […]

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CFParticipation: Postcolonial Digital Humanities #dhpoco Summer School

#dhpoco Summer School is an informal, month-long collaborative online course exploring issues related to Postcolonial Digital Humanities. Through readings, discussion boards, and optional video conferences, participants will learn more about #dhpoco and make meaningful connections with fellow scholars. Postcolonial Digital Humanities | Coming Soon: #dhpoco Summer School.

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Editors’ Choice: Metadata Games

Metadata Games is an online game system for gathering useful data on photo, audio, and moving image artifacts, enticing those who might not visit archives to explore humanities content while contributing to vital records. Furthermore, the suite enables archivists to gather and analyze information for image archives in novel and possibly unexpected ways. Check out […]

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Conference: Automatic Pattern Recognition and Historical Handwritting Analysis

http://digitalmedievalist.wordpress.com/2013/05/15/conference-automatic-pattern-recognition-and-historical-handwritting-analysis/ The number of historical documents which are available in digital form has dramatically increased throughout the last five to ten years. Consequently, there has also been a significant growth in the development of computerized tools for the support of the analysis of such documents. The project “Script and Signs. A Computer-based Analysis of Highmedieval […]