An updated the sample output from Collatex shows output from user-specified witnesses in the form of (1) an alignment table based on user-specified order, (2) an extracted text of a base text (taking the first specified witness is the base text), (3) generating an apparatus.
This three-week working group aims to develop readings and methodologies of Critical Code Studies, which examines the extra-functional significance of computer source code.
Zone 1 provides an easy-to-use first line of preservation service for use by anyone at Harvard for any digital content.
Show how text mining can contribute to historical questions and what sort of issues we can answer, now, using simple tools and big data, this might be the story I’d start with to show how much data we have, and how little things can have different meanings at big scales…
Spelling variations are not a bread-and-butter historical question, and with good reason. There is nothing at stake in whether someone writes “Pittsburgh” or “Pittsburg.” But precisely because spelling is so arbitrary, we only change it for good reason. And so it can give insights into power, center and periphery, and transmission. One of the insights of cultural history is that the history of practices, however mundane, can be deeply rooted in the history of power and its use.
Medieval manuscripts frequently contain no indication of when they were written. In order to assign them an approximate dating, we invariably have to make judgments based on their script and decoration, both of which change over the centuries.
This book brings together a group of international experts to consider the following key issues:
• What is the role of digital resources in the research life cycle?
• Do the arts and humanities face a ‘data deluge’?
• How are digital collections to be sustained over the long term?
• How is use and impact to be assessed?
• What is the role of digital collections in the ‘digital economy’?
• How is public engagement with digital cultural heritage materials to be assessed and supported?
The Architecture + Design Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst seeks an individual with expertise in Design and Digital Media. The position is Assistant Professor, tenure-track, beginning September 2012. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and experience. Candidates must hold an accredited degree in architecture; and a terminal professional or academic degree in architecture or allied field. An advanced degree in one of the humanities is preferred. Candidates must also demonstrate significant professional or academic experience in digital design and interdisciplinary design practice or research.
Audio from the ARL-CNI Fall Forum
When data exploration produces Christmas-themed charts, that’s a sign it’s time to post again. So here’s a chart and a problem.
First, the problem. One of the things I like about the posts I did on author age and vocabulary change in the spring is that they have two nice dimensions we can watch changes happening in. This captures the fact that language as a whole doesn’t just up and change–things happen among particular groups of people, and the change that results has shape not just in time (it grows, it shrinks) but across those other dimensions as well.
The New School hosted a conference on the Future of Higher Education last week. It was led by the Center for Public Scholarship, and started on Thursday, December 8, 2011. I blogged all sessions, each with its own post or two.