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Reports from the 29th Annual Symposium, held May 22-23, 2012, are now available in the archive. Sopan, A. (May 2012) Monitoring Scientific Conference: Real-time Visualization and Retrospective Analysis of the Backchannel Conversation HCIL-2012-12 [Link to Report] Dunne, C., Shneiderman, B. (May 2012) Motif Simplification: Improving Network Visualization Readability with Fan and Parallel Glyphs HCIL-2012-11 [Link […]

Editors’ Note: This piece consists of three posts. A PDF of full report available from netpreserve.org. From the first in the three-part series: Imagine a world in which libraries and archives had never existed. No institutions had ever systematically collected or preserved our collective cultural past: every book, letter, or document was created, read and […]

Over the past two years I’ve been noticing a rise in what I like to call “shock and awe” graphs in digital humanities, designed to overwhelm their audience and perhaps even to evoke doubt in one’s own abilities to compete in the same scholarly conversation. These graphics are both incredibly complex representations of data, and […]

I have written before about some issues relating to RDA and RDF. Today I want to actually consider some things we should consider that should cause us to question the concept of “RDA in RDF.” For many decades we have been using relational databases to store our bibliographic data, bibliographic data that we create and exchange […]

There seems to be a lot of topic modelling going on at the moment. Any why not? Projects like Mining the Dispatch are demonstrating the possibilities. Tools like Mallet are making it easy. And generous DHers like Ted Underwood and Scott Weingart are doing a great job explaining what it is and how it works. I’ve talked briefly about using topic modelling to explore […]

It has been six months since Digital Humanities Now relaunched in version 2.0 through the support of the PressForward Project, funded by the Sloan Foundation. The first version, run between 2009 and 2010, was an automated survey of Twitter. Version 1.5 was a one-man operation by Dan Cohen to vet the material using traditional methods of […]

There is no Frigate like a book To take us lands away Nor any Coursers like a Page Of Prancing Poetry This Traverse may the poorest take Without oppress of Toll How frugal is the Chariot That bears a human Soul. –Emily Dickinson, www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/19730 Alexandria is a port, the busiest seaport in Egypt. Of course […]