I’m having an interesting discussion with Lisa Rhody about the significance of topic modeling at different scales that I’d like to follow up with some examples. I’ve been doing topic modeling on collections of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century volumes, using volumes themselves as the “documents” being modeled. Lisa has been pursuing topic modeling on a collection of poems, using individual […]
CLIR is currently accepting applications for this program. All applications must be submitted using the online form on the For Applicants page. Review of applications will begin on May 1, 2012, and continue until positions are filled. CLIR expects all positions to be filled by June 30, 2012. For further information please consult the For Applicants and FAQpages. The CLIR/DLF Data Curation Fellowship […]
Timeline is also great for pulling in media from different sources. It has built in support for pulling in Tweets and media from Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, Vimeo, Google Maps and SoundCloud. More media types will be supported in the future. Creating one is as easy as filling in a Google spreadsheet or as detailed as […]
2012 Annual Conference and Members’ Meeting of the TEI Consortium Texas A&M University, Initiative for Digital Humanities, Media, and Culture * Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2012 * Meeting dates: Wed 7 November to Sat 10 November, 2011 * Workshop dates: Mon 5 November to Wed 7 November, 2012 (see separate call) The Programme Committee […]
DS106 is a digital storytelling course that began as a face-to-face course at the University of Mary Washington. In Spring of 2011, Jim Groom opened the course up to allow open online participants to join and become involved. That semester gave birth to a radio station, a TV station, an assignment bank with over 280 contributions, and an explosion of […]
I first encountered the idea of ‘uncoverage’ in a blog post on Profhacker by Mark Sample. This phrase neatly encapsulates what I have come to believe. In Sample’s post, he defines ‘uncoverage’ by contrasting it with how we normally use the phrase in course syllabi: “…this course will cover the evolution of American public life […]
The Weight We had been on a long journey but I couldn’t see it anywhere. There’s a stage in a product cycle where you know it’s going to ship. Where you can see the end. It’s right there, sitting at the corner of Emerson St. and University Ave. Or maybe sipping coffee at Fraiche. Oh, hello, it waves […]
The Electronic Textual Cultures Lab at UVic is looking for someone to join its team as full-time Coordinator or Assistant Director. As a candidate for this position, you are an organized, self-starting, natural manager and planner who takes initiative; you have good facility with computing, and understand the value of literary, historical, and/or language studies; […]
Editor’s Note: The following infographic traces the chronology of Crowdsourcing from the early 1700s through 4 centuries of innovation up to today. It originally appeared in Ross Dawson’s book “Getting Results from Crowds” and is reprinted with permission here. Click on the image below to get a full-sized view.
The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) was founded as a literary nonprofit organization in 1999 after the Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature conference at Brown University. Along with Jeff Ballowe and Robert Coover, I was a co-founder of the ELO, and served as its first Executive Director from 1999-2001, and have served on its board of directors […]
