Prism is an experiment in visualizing many readings of a common set of texts, using concepts shared by its users–“the crowd.” While the Praxis Program itself makes an intervention in graduate training, Prism is an intervention in the concept of crowd-sourcing, which until now has mostly made fact-checkers and copy editors of the crowd. One of […]
The research I am doing presently uses visualizations to show latent patterns that may be detected in a set of poems using computational tools, such as topic modeling. In particular, I’m looking at poetry that takes visual art as its subject, a genre called ekphrasis, in an attempt to distinguish the types of language poets […]
Rickshaw provides the elements you need to create interactive graphs: renderers, legends, hovers, range selectors, etc. You put the pieces together.
jPach will allow MPublishing to publish journal content directly into the HathiTrust repository, and it will offer a number of benefits. First, it will be modular and extensible, so we will be able to replace parts of the system and build new functionality more easily. Second, it will allow a publishing partner to be involved […]
Working within the department and with colleagues in Green Library (MMC) and Hubert Library (BBC), this librarian will have responsibility to: Acquire, coordinate, and manage video, audio, and image collections. Provide outreach services to the user community. Participate in the university-wide development and implementation of policies related to digital rights management, copyright, and intellectual property […]
About three years ago, I shared 37 data-ish blogs you should know about, but a lot has changed since then. Some blogs are no longer in commission, and lots of new blogs have sprung up (and died). Today, I went through my feed reader again, and here’s what came up. Coincidentally, 37 blogs came up again. […]
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As Douglas Adams once memorably said, ‘lovers of print are simply confusing the plate for the food’. The message is the thing, not the medium through which it is conveyed. But if this is true of print, will it not turn out to be equally true of ‘Digital’? There appears to be some confusion about […]
As we reach a point where many of the classic books of literature and science published before the magical date of 1923 have been digitized, it is time to consider the quality of those copies and the issue of redundancy. A serious concern in the times before printing was that copying — and it was […]
Reporting to the Head of Curation and Preservation Services, the activities of this position will span the full life-cycle of digital content management through collaboration with the Institute Archives and Special Collections, Specialized Content and Services, and structured interactions with other key units of the MIT Libraries. Activities include: • Engagement in a range of […]
