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CFParticipation: “Historical documents, digital approaches” seminar-workshop at Ghent University, 5-7 september 2013

Three-day seminar-workshop on the use of Humanities computing methods in Historical Studies organized by the Ghent Center for Digital Humanities, the Departments of History and of Languages and Cultures, and the Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies, in cooperation with the Flemish Medieval Studies Workgroup and the Henri Pirenne Institute of Medieval Studies.

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Editors’ Choice: Quantifying the American Tract Society: Using Library Catalog Data for Historical Research

The American Antiquarian Society was generous enough to offer me a fellowship this summer, so I took a month to research in the AAS’s wonderful collections. A fair bit of my time was spent reading through the nearly complete print run of American Tract Society pamphlets from the early to mid-nineteenth century. I wanted to […]

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Editors’ Choice: Announcing Serendip-o-matic from One Week | One Tool

After five days and nights of intense collaboration, the One Week | One Tool digital humanities team has unveiled its web application: Serendip-o-matic <http://serendipomatic.org>. Unlike conventional search tools, this “serendipity engine” takes in any text, such as an article, song lyrics, or a bibliography. It then extracts key terms, delivering similar results from the vast […]

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Editors’ Choice: How The Rainbow Color Map Misleads

Colors are perhaps the visual property that people most often misuse in visualization without being aware of it. Variations of the rainbow colormap are very popular, and at the same time the most problematic and misleading. The rainbow color map is based on the colors in the light spectrum, and is sometimes done correctly, sometimes […]