Whenever I talk about crowd-sourced transcription–actually whenever I talk about crowdsourced anything–the first question people ask is about accuracy. Nobody trusts the public add to an institution’s data/meta-data, nor especially to correct it. However, quality control over data entry is a well-explored problem, and while I’m not familiar with the literature from industry regarding commercial […]
Mobile technologies are a vibrantly developing and constantly create new challenges for education and learning in a wide range of contexts and settings. In conjunction with the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Contextual Learning (mLearn 2012) in Helsinki, Finland we are delighted to announce the unique opportunity for holding a limited number of scientific […]
The University of Waterloo’s Faculty of Arts is seeking applicants for a unique Tier I Canada Research Chair position. The successful candidate will pursue outstanding research exploring impacts of human and social factors on the design, development, distribution, and/or reception of digital media technologies. While excelling in his/her own particular field of expertise, the successful […]
I love a good infographic! After all, knowledge is power and the visualization of data makes absorbing information all the easier. Well-designed infographics have a way of pulling me into a subject I’d normally never care to know about. As a designer I can attest to the crazy amount of time it takes to make […]
The Modernist Versions Project (MVP) seeks applicants for a post-doctoral fellowship valued at $31,500/year for two years. The successful applicant will be expected to join the project on site in Victoria, BC and to take a leading role in developing the next phase of the MVP as well as pursuing his or her own original […]
I wrote this tutorial, and another, for my English 411 (Seventeenth Century Literature) students to complete their EEBO Assignment, but both may be useful to others. The instructions assume that you are logging in to Early English Books Online through your institution; mine is the University of Calgary Library.
The goal of this article is to assist designers, researchers, professional analysts, procurement officers, educators, and students in evaluating and creating visual analysis tools. We present a taxonomy of interactive dynamics that contribute to successful analytic dialogues. The taxonomy consists of 12 task types grouped into three high-level categories, as shown in table 1: (1) […]
NITLE Event: Why Digital Humanities?. March 22, 2:00pm – 3:00pm Faculty, instructional technologists, librarians, and others from NITLE Network institutions are invited to this presentation and discussion on the digital humanities led by Dr. Lisa Spiro, Director of NITLE Labs. (Times EDT) Online via NITLE’s high-definition videoconferencing platform
One of the most important aspects of project management is – no surprise here – tracking the progress of your project. If you have a complex project that includes many technical steps, you’ll want to be able to have a formal system that tracks accomplishments, allows you to make adjustments along the way, and can help you set priorities.
In the Narrative Statistics series of posts, I’m exploring different ways to characterize fiction using statistics. I’m recovering from a flu or cold as well as a nasty cough that followed, so instead of delving into deep math, I want to review what I see as the role of statistics, at least for this series.
