Recently I posted some thoughts about how emerging trends in the field of user experience (UX) design might be embedded in our project design and development process. In this post I’m going to discuss this further, concentrating on the UX pattern library the user interface (UI) team are developing. Read the whole thing here.
A series tutorials on quantitative text analysis with Python are now available on the DARIAH-DE website. The tutorials were written by Allen Riddell with help from Christof Schöch. The tutorials assume familiarity with the Python programming language. If you’re new to Python and would like to learn the basics, head straight over to the excellent (and recently expanded) […]
There has been much debate about how we might help secure the future of digital scholarship for the next generation of learners, teachers and researchers. The business end of how this might be achieved in regards revenue generation beyond host institutional support remains a challenge. Read full post here.
Overview and details of the sessions of the Canadian Society for Digital Humanities 2014 conference. Please select a date or room to show only sessions at that day or location. Please select a single session for detailed view (with abstracts and downloads if available). Read full post here. CONTENT
Tethne provides a variety of methods for working with text corpora and the output of modeling tools like MALLET. This tutorial focuses on parsing, modeling, and visualizing a Latent Dirichlet Allocation topic model, using data from the JSTOR Data-for-Research portal. In this tutorial, we will use Tethne to prepare a JSTOR DfR corpus for topic […]
In the past few months, MITH has been developing software for a project related to the Walt Whitman Archive. The Walt Whitman Archive is an electronic research and teaching tool that sets out to make Whitman’s vast work, for the first time, easily and conveniently accessible to scholars, students, and general readers. Working in collaboration […]
A new lesson by Caleb McDaniel on The Programming Historian focuses on downloading and analyzing records from the Internet Archive. In this lesson, you’ll learn how to download files from such collections using a Python module specifically designed for the Internet Archive. You will also learn how to use another Python module designed for parsing […]
The Educopia Institute has released Guidelines for Digital Newspaper Preservation Readiness. (PDF) These Guidelines are an effort to distill preservation-readiness steps into incremental processes that an institution of almost any size or type can deploy to begin maturing its digital newspaper content management practices. Digital Scholarship Overview | DigitalKoans
APIs present researchers with a diverse set of data sources through a standardised access mechanism: send a pasted together HTTP request, receive JSON or XML in return. Today we tap into a range of APIs to get comfortable sending queries and processing responses. These are the slides from the final class in Web Scraping through […]
This posting outlines the implementation of a Semantic Web application. It is a sort of inference engine feed with a URI and integer, both supplied by a person. Its ultimate goal is to find relationships between URIs that were not immediately or readily apparent. Source: Morgan, Eric Lease: Semantic Web application
