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Voyant Notebooks: Literate Programming and Programming Literacy

Poster

Abstract

Some thirty years ago Donald Knuth, a computer scientist, proposed literate programming as a better way of organizing narrative and code (1984). Knuth argued that more emphasis should be placed on explaining to humans what computers are meant to do, rather than simply instructing computers what to do.

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Architecture to Enable Large-Scale Computational Analysis of Millions of Volumes

Poster

Abstract

The HathiTrust Research Center (HTRC) is a collaborative research center that provides Digital Humanities researchers access to not only millions of volumes from the HathiTrust (HT) digital library, but also cutting-edge software tools and cyber infrastructure to perform advanced computational analysis over the corpus at an unprecedented scale.

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KORA: A Digital Repository and Publishing Platform

Poster

Abstract

MATRIX has developed an open source application that cultural and educational institutions can use to preserve digital materials and display them online. The application, KORA (http://kora.matrix.msu.edu), is particularly well-suited for working with digital objects of all media types and for easily creating displays of these objects in multiple ways that enhance their educational and research value.

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Textal: A Text Analysis Smartphone App for Digital Humanities

Poster

Abstract

This poster introduces Textal, a text analysis application for iOS, and text analysis service infrastructure, which is currently in development at UCLDH and UCLCASA and will be freely available beginning Summer 2013.

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TEI Boilerplate

Poster

Introduction

TEI Boilerplate is a lightweight, HTML5 compliant framework for publishing TEI documents. TEI Boilerplate (TEIBP) is designed to bridge the gap between the browser-friendly features of HTML and the semantic richness of native TEI documents.

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