https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/author/bgorges/Recent content in Bgorges on Journal of Digital HumanitiesHugoen-USThu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/bookworm/Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0000https://journalofdigitalhumanities.org/1-1/bookworm/<p><a href="http://bookworm.culturomics.org" title="Bookworm">Bookworm</a> is a tool that allows users to create visualizations charting the use of words or phrases in selected large corpora over specified periods of time. The software was developed by a group of researchers at the <a href="http://www.culturomics.org/cultural-observatory-at-harvard" title="Culturomics, the Cultural Observatory at Harvard">Harvard University Cultural Observatory</a> <sup id="fnref:1"><a href="#fn:1" class="footnote-ref" role="doc-noteref">1</a></sup> as a follow-up to the 2010 project that resulted in <a href="http://www.sciencemag.org/content/early/2010/12/15/science.1199644" title="Michel Jean-Baptiste, et al. 'Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books'">a cover story in <em>Science</em></a>, the <a href="http://books.google.com/ngrams" title="GoogleBooks, Ngram Viewer">Google Books Ngram Viewer</a>, and the coining of the term <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culturomics" title="Wikipedia entry, 'Culturomics'">‘culturomics’</a>. Bookworm development is still in its alpha phase, but already the software shows great promise as a tool for scholarly exploration of historical trends in large collections of books.</p>