Humanities, Copyright and New Technologies | FORMS OF INNOVATION Date: Saturday, April 27, 2013 – 09:00 Location: University of Durham Application deadline: March 31 With the rise and popularisation of new technologies, novel avenues for information dissemination as well as creative innovation are constantly being created. Increasingly, the practices in question prove problematic…
In the 80s and 90s, critical cartographers, such as J. B. Harley, reminded us thatthe map is not the territory. A map is always a representation, a construction, designed by humans to show certain things and to not show other things. The critique was elementary. Fifty years earlier, Borges had acknowledged much more creatively the map/territory…
Yesterday, Thursday the 14th of March 2013, I had the great pleasure of speaking at the University of Sussex to an entirely mixed audience of humanists, scientists, librarians, OA enthusiasts and OA sceptics on the topic of the Future of Peer Review. The advantage of being too busy to practice a talk was that I…
Digital Thoreau and Parallel Segmentation What really caught my attention, however, is that they freely offer a toolkit of materials from their project, including XML documents marked up in TEI Parallel Segmentation. This allowed me to take a closer look at how they encoded the text featured in the demo, and try visualizing it, myself.
NITLE Women’s Studies and DH Resources – Google Drive. if you have resources to share for #DH #feminisms #NITLE, please share them here. As of 2/26 this is a public document and additions are welcome. Please keep additions within the appropriate categories (or add new ones) and keep the bibliography alphabetical.
Free Your Metadata. Clean up your metadata and discover how to handle those embarrassing errors. Free Your Metadata is a scientific collaboration between Multimedia Lab (ELIS — Ghent University / iMinds) and MasTIC (Université Libre de Bruxelles). It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or associated with Google.
English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA at UCSB) | Early Modern Online Bibliography. The University of California at Santa Barbara has created a free digital ballad collection called The English Broadside Ballad Archive (EBBA), which provides access to more than 8,000 seventeenth-century ballads. The collection includes ballads from the Pepys Collection, the Roxburgh Collection, the Euing Collection, and the Huntington Library. …
Post Position » Amodern, a New Open Access Peer-Reviewed Journal. Announcing the launch of AMODERN: A new peer-reviewed, open access scholarly journal devoted to the study of media, culture, and poetics. http://amodern.net
ACL 2013 workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities. The LaTeCH workshop series is a forum for researchers who develop technology for improved information access to data from the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Cultural Heritage. Applications in these domains are rapidly emerging, while they typically entail new challenges with respect to…
Now back to some texts for a bit. Last spring, I posted a few times about the possibilities for reading genders in large collections of books. I didn’t follow up because I have some concerns about just what to do with this sort of pronoun data. But after talking about it to Ryan Cordell’s class at…