In October 2011 I began a project to make all of my 26 articles published in refereed journals available via UCL’s Open Access Repository –“Discovery”. I decided that as well as putting them in the institutional repository, I would write a blog post about each research project, and tweet the papers for download. Would this affect […]
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 […]
One of the striking features of computation is the extent to which forms of pattern matching are required in computer processing. Pattern recognition can be described as a means of identifying repeated shapes or structures which are features of a system under investigation. Whilst we tend to think of patterns as visual, of course they […]
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 […]
Project Briefing Presentation by: Barbara Taranto Digital Program Director New York Public Library The New York Public Library recently launched its first foray into crowd sourcing metadata by exposing 40,000 image pages of turn of the century restaurant and cruise ship menus: “What’s On the Menu?” The goal of the project was to widely distribute […]
Several weeks ago I was aware that there was a flurry of discussion among the digital humanities crowd about “archival silences.” This occurred shortly after I had posted about the differences between the way archivists use “archive” and the way digital humanities people seemed to be using it, so I suspected that “archival silences” would […]
This is a work in progress – more my notes and queries than a proper paper, stuff will change, references will be added. I wanted most to get this out there and to get your views, your inputs and your insights. Please comment, your thoughts are valued! My recent research with Marilyn Deegan into the […]
Online digitized newspapers are great. If you have access (either through a free database or via a personal or library subscription), you can quickly find the information you need: a specific search for a last name might help you find ancestors, a search for a specific event can find historical context for it (i.e. the […]
The 27th March is the Day of Digital Humanities. The Day of DH project is a collaborative publishing project for digital humanists around the world to document what they do. CAA2012 and sotonDH are asking delegates to blog from the conference as part of the day. You can register for the blog here: Create an […]
