Editors’ Summary: In “Gestionar fuentes primarias digitales con Tropy,” a Spanish-language tutorial published in Programming Historian, Douglas McRae shows researchers how to start a Tropy project to manage digital images of their primary sources. Addressing the overload historians face when accumulating hundreds of archival photographs, McRae presents Tropy—a free, open-source tool developed by the Roy […]
Editors’ Summary: The Australian National Corpus (AusNC) was a discovery service that collated and provided access to examples of Australian English text, transcriptions, audio and audio-visual materials. The service was managed by Griffith University beginning 2012 until mid-2023 when the site was decommissioned. From 2023, AusNC data was made available as individual collections (listed below) […]
Today, Sari Altschuler is bringing us a sneak peek of her new book, Before Disability: A History of American Citizenship, which will be released on June 16. Sari is an Associate Professor of English and the Founding Director of the Health, Humanities, and Society Program at Northeastern University. Here’s Sari to tell us more about her […]
I just published an 8-page minizine: “Get to Do An Art or Craft: Applying to artist residencies for ‘non-artists’”. If like me you’re coming from outside the formal Art World, but are a crafter, maker, or artist (or do these but think “I’m not a real artist though…”) You might also not be aware you […]
Editors’ Summary: The Data Center Policy Database, developed by researchers at the University of Virginia, offers a vital open-access resource tracking the infrastructure and regulations governing global digital architecture. By mapping the policy frameworks that dictate data storage, this project provides digital humanists with a critical tool to interrogate the material, political, and environmental footprints […]
PARADISEC (the Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures) is a digital archive of records of some of the many small cultures and languages of the world. This research group has developed models to ensure that the archive can provide access to interested communities, and conforms with emerging international standards for digital […]
PoeTree is a standardized collection of poetry corpora comprising over 330,000 poems in 11 languages (Czech, English, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish). Each corpus has been deduplicated, enriched with Universal Dependencies, provided with additional metadata and converted into a unified JSON structure. See full post.
The purpose of CEDHAR is to improve and to develop knowledge of all four key dimensions of digital history. These four dimensions are digital methods, digital archives, digital history communication, and new digital sources. Although focused on digital history, these core principles apply to digital humanities more broadly, and this feed (and the resources and […]
The information in the dataset is extracted from newspapers across the region of the Lesser Antilles. The Lesser Antilles, for the purpose of this dataset, begin with the Virgin Islands, extend south to Barbados, Grenada, and Tobago, and circle west towards Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (see fig. 1). Researchers knowledgeable about Caribbean history will recognize […]
TALL (Text Analysis for ALL) is an interactive R Shiny application designed for exploring, modeling, and visualizing textual data. It provides a comprehensive, code-free environment for Natural Language Processing, enabling researchers without extensive programming skills to perform sophisticated text analyses through an intuitive graphical interface. TALL integrates state-of-the-art NLP techniques — tokenization, lemmatization, Part-of-Speech tagging, […]
