I polled a number of DH colleagues on social media (Facebook and Twitter) who I know have taught their own introduction to DH courses or who have, like me, taught DH-inflected courses in an English department or similar program. I also met with a few DH colleagues on campus, including our DH librarian, Laura Braunstein, […]
The Database of Byzantine Book Epigrams (DBBE) is an ongoing project that makes available textual and contextual data of book epigrams (or: metrical paratexts) from medieval Greek manuscripts (seventh to fifteenth century).We define book epigrams as poems in books and on books: their subject is the very manuscript in which they are found. They record, […]
Inspired by the amazing work that Dan Royles is doing with TEI mark up of oral history interview transcripts (soon to appear in Oral History Review) I took a quick run at something I first thought of at the American Art History and Digital Scholarship: New Avenues of Exploration in 2013. Access resource here.
In this post I want to attempt a very preliminary taxonomy of the kinds of sources that are available to religious historians who wish to use mapping or quantitative analysis of some kind or another. Let’s call this a taxonomy instead of a catalog, because I’m going to list the kinds of sources that I’ve […]
Learn more about the vast project undertaken by the Internet Archive, in collaboration with the Allen County Public Library to digitize many of the library’s local interest and Lincoln themed holdings. Watch video here.
The Open Syllabus Project (OSP) is an effort to create the first large-scale online database of university course syllabi as a platform for the development of new research, teaching, and administrative tools.The project leverages a collection of over 1 million syllabi collected from university and departmental websites. It provides: The first version of a new […]
For the last few years, I’ve been collaborating with Roger Whitson on editing Comics as Scholarship, a special issue for Digital Humanities Quarterly. The open-access issue is now available and may be of interest to anyone experimenting with alternatives to the monolithic scholarly essay. The collection includes six comics written and designed by scholars as […]
Between 1946 and 1987 the International Association for Classical Archaeology (AIAC) published the Fasti Archaeologici. It contained very useful summary notices of excavations throughout the area of the Roman Empire. However, spiraling costs and publication delays combined to render it less and less useful. AIACs board of directors thus decided in 1998 to discontinue the […]
The Yahoo News Feed dataset is a collection based on a sample of anonymized user interactions on the news feeds of several Yahoo properties, including the Yahoo homepage, Yahoo News, Yahoo Sports, Yahoo Finance, Yahoo Movies, and Yahoo Real Estate. The dataset stands at a massive ~110B lines (1.5TB bzipped) of user-news item interaction data, […]
The British Library has compiled a list of 1429 medieval digitized manuscripts. “It’s that time of year again, friends, and we’re pleased to (belatedly) celebrate the holidays by giving you a magnificent gift. This gift is certainly worth the wait, though – a massive list of Digitised Manuscripts hyperlinks! We’re mixing it up a little […]
