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
I don’t think I’ve shared my workflow before for mapping the structure of a webcrawl. After listening to Sebastian Heath speak at #dapw it occurred to me that it might be useful for, interalia linked open data type resources. So, here’s what you do (and my example draw’s from this year’s SAA 2014 blogging archaeology […]
Wikipedia is meant to be a starting point, not a final source of knowledge. It is permanently incomplete and evolving, with continuous formal and informal review. Delving into that process, learners can explore critical reading, digital literacy and deep questions of knowledge. Dr Martin Poulter, Jisc Wikimedia ambassador, gives us his top ten tips for […]
Editors’ Note: You also may be interested in Ed Summer’s overview of what happens when you embed a Getty Image. Getty Images new embed feature makes it easy, legal and free for anybody to share our images on websites, blogs and social media platforms. Search images available to embed.
Welcome to the Illinois Digital Newspaper Collections, a freely accessible online archive of digitized newspaper content from the University of Illinois Library. This collection contains 45 newspaper titles, 78,494 issues comprising 978,921 pages and 6,648,636 articles. See the full resource here.
