Editors’ Choice: Using GIS to Explore Historical Texts
A podcast, video, and slides from Ian Gregory’s #dhist talk ‘Using GIS to explore Historical Texts’ is now available on HistorySpot. Podcast, Video, and Slides Available Here.
Category: Editors’ Choice
Editors’ Choice: Visible Archives Series Browser for Manly Library
Over the past twelve months we have been developing some new approaches to the challenge of providing rich, revealing interfaces to cultural collections. The key idea here is the notion of generous interfaces – an argument that we can (and should) show more of these collections than the search box normally allows; and that there’s […]
Editors’ Choice: #AHA2013 and #MLA13 Roundup
Editors’ Note: Thank you to our Editors-at-Large and to all those who responded to our CFP for helping us gathering links to Digital Humanities related content from both the AHA and MLA annual meetings. If you have work that you would like included in this roundup, please fill out the form located on our CFP. […]
Editors’ Choice: Keeping the words in Topic Models
Following up on my previous topic modeling post, I want to talk about one thing humanists actually do with topic models once they build them, most of the time: chart the topics over time. Since I think that, although Topic Modeling can be very useful, there’s too little skepticism about the technique, I’m venturing to provide it […]
Editors’ Choice: Should Museum Exhibitions Be More Linear? Exploring the Power of the Forced March in Digital and Physical Environments
When I was a teenager, I was enthralled by interactive fiction. I loved the idea of the web as an infinite landscape, with stories and poems spiraling out in nonlinear directions. Fifteen years later, the web has evolved tremendously… but hypertext-based interactive art and fiction is still a nerdy sideline at best. A cult of […]
Editors’ Choice: Datafication: How the Lens of Data Changes How We See Ourselves
Digital media allow us to produce, collect, organise and interpret more data about our lives than ever before. Our every digital interaction contributes to vast databases of information that index our behaviour from online movie choices to mapping networks of connections across Twitter. In an age of uncertainty, big data sets promise to provide an […]
Editors’ Choice: Possibility and Probability in Geospatial Information Visualization
Doing digital humanities often means producing digital geographic maps*. These maps increasingly provide a wide range of spatial objects to represent and as a result tend to present a mix of traditional cartographic principles: Simple pushpins or polygons indicating locations relevant to objects in a collection; chloropleth maps symbolizing geographic variation in a social or […]
Editors’ Choice: Digital History at the 2013 AHA Meeting, January 3-6
It’s time for my annual list of digital history sessions at the American Historical Associationmeeting, this year in New Orleans, January 3-6, 2013. This year’s program extends last year’s surging interest in the effect digital media and technology are having on research and the profession. In addition, a special track for the 2013 meeting is entitled “The Public Practice […]
Editors’ Choice: Digital Humanities at MLA 2013, January 3-6
What follows is a comprehensive list of digital humanities sessions at the 2013 Modern Language Association Conference in Boston. These are sessions that in some way address the influence and impact of digital materials and tools upon language, literary, textual, and media studies, as well as upon online pedagogy and scholarly communication. The 2013 list […]
Happy Holidays from Digital Humanities Now
From all of us at Digital Humanities Now, happy holidays and best wishes for the new year! We will return on January 3 to bring you more news, information, and scholarship from the digital humanities community. In the meantime, we invite you to read the latest issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities, and […]