One of the most prevalent debates within the Digital Humanities (DH) is the idea that practitioners should just go about doing rather than talking, or to practice “more hack, less yack.” In other words, instead of pontificating and problematizing, DH scholars should be more concerned with making stuff, and making stuff happen. The “more hack, […]
The Center for Digital Scholarship recently completed a NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant to create a set of experimental tools for analyzing TEI texts using the SEASR framework. SEASR lets users arrange and manipulate small computational “components” in series to allow data to be ingested, analyzed, transformed, and visualized. CDS produced about three dozen of […]
Yesterday, my HeritageCrowd project website was annihilated. Gone. Kaput. Destroyed. Joined the choir. It is a dead parrot. This is what I think happened, what I now know and need to learn, and what I think the wider digital humanities community needs to think about/teach each other. HeritageCrowd was (may be again, if I can […]
About GeoTools — GeoTools. GeoTools is an open source (LGPL) Java code library which provides standards compliant methods for the manipulation of geospatial data, for example to implement Geographic Information Systems (GIS). The GeoTools library implements Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) specifications as they are developed. For an overview of the capabilities of GeoTools please check […]
Home – Map Warper. Welcome to WorldMap WARP, a tool based on the MapWarper platform being developed by Entropy Free. The tool is for digitally aligning (geo-rectifying) scanned historical maps to match today’s precise maps. Visitors can browse maps others have geo-rectified or upload their own to rectify. Any map which has been rectified here can be brought […]
H-Net Job Guide. Elite Network Shifts (ENS) is offering postdoctoral research positions for subprojects 2 and 3 (http://www.kitlv.nl/home/Projects?id=25). The main focus of those subprojects is the combination of social and complex network analysis with historical research on Indonesian elite rotation. ENS is open to discussion with strong candidates about a flexible allocation of tasks for each subproject; in particular, subproject 2 […]
bookworm Open Library bookworm updated for searching Open Library. bookworm is a collaboration between the Harvard Cultural Observatory, Open Library, and the Open Science Data Cloud. It enables you to graphically explore lexical trends across a huge digital library.
The Digital Humanities Winter Institute at the Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH) is an extension of the highly-successful Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria. DHWI provides an opportunity for scholars to learn new skills relevant to digital scholarship and mingle with like-minded colleagues through coursework, social events, […]
I have written before about some issues relating to RDA and RDF. Today I want to actually consider some things we should consider that should cause us to question the concept of “RDA in RDF.” For many decades we have been using relational databases to store our bibliographic data, bibliographic data that we create and exchange […]
There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. I’ve talked briefly about using topic modelling to explore […]
