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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Topic Modeling and Figurative Language

… to have them for an instant in her hands both at once,
the story and its undoing…
from “Self Portrait as Hurry and Delay” [Penelope at her loom]

Located at the center of Jorie Graham’s collection The End of Beauty, “Self Portrait as Hurray and Delay” crafts a portrait of the artist, poised at a precarious moment in which thought begins to take shape.

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Vol. 2 No. 1 Applications Featured Excerpts

Clusters of voyages in the Maury Collection generated by a simple k-means algorithm

“The strictly linguistic character of this technique is a limitation as well as a strength.”
Ted Underwood and Andrew Goldstone

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

How to Evaluate Digital Scholarship

The purpose of this document is to provide a set of guidelines for the evaluation of digital scholarship in the Humanities, Social Sciences, Arts, and related disciplines. The document is aimed, foremost, at Academic Review Committees, Chairs, Deans, and Provosts who want to know how to assess and evaluate digital scholarship in the hiring, tenure, and promotion process.

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Short Guide To Evaluation Of Digital Work

This short guide gathers a collection of questions evaluators can ask about a project, a check list of what to look for in a project, and some ideas about how to find experts in one place.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Evaluating Digital Humanities Work: Guidelines for Librarians

In this piece, Zach Coble explores the benefits of creating guidelines for the evaluation of librarians’ digital humanities work for the purposes of hiring, appointment, tenure, and promotion, and offers a basic framework for what those guidelines might look like.

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Let the Grant Do the Talking

On December 3, 2012 I spent a day talking with a community arts organization, the New Urban Arts Center, that takes a different approach to their arts education and humanities-driven mission than most arts and humanities funders are accustomed to supporting.

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Vol. 1, No. 4 Fall 2012 Approaches Featured Excerpts

Perspectives on Assessment and Evaluation from Across the Academy

Simon Fraser/Science Photo Library via Guardian.uk

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011: Featured Article Excerpts

“Modern humanities scholarship is a direct engagement with a deracinated, Google-ised, Wikipedia-ised, electronic text.”
Tim Hitchcock

An ego network from wikipedia.org

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Academic History Writing and its Disconnects

The last ten years have seen the development of what looks like a coherent format for the publication of inherited texts online – in particular, ‘books’. The project of putting billions of words of keyword searchable text is now nearing completion (at least in a Western context); and the hard intellectual work that went into this project is now done.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Spatializing Photographic Archives

The extensive and carefully illustrated White Paper for our NEH-sponsored “Spatializing Photographic Archives” project can be downloaded as a large PDF (26.5mb).

The White Paper describes the open-source software tool we’ve developed, and our reasons for wanting to forge a new approach to making digital tools for scholars.

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“Humanities in a Digital Age” Symposium Podcasts

On November 11th, the University of Virginia’s Institute of the Humanities and Global Cultures hosted a daylong symposium on “The Humanities in a Digital Age.” The symposium included two panels—one on Access & Ownership and the other on Research & Teaching—and two keynote talks.

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Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2012 Articles Featured Excerpts

“A new conjunction of scientist, curator, humanist, and artist is what the digital humanities must strive to achieve. It is the only way of ensuring that we do not lose our souls in a world of data.”

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An Electric Current of the Imagination: What the Digital Humanities Are and What They Might Become

It is a great honour for me to become head of this academic department devoted to the study of the digital humanities. When I first saw experiments in the digital imaging of books and manuscripts in the British Library twenty years ago, it was impossible to imagine that they would develop into an intellectual activity on a scale warranting an academic department.

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Vol. 1, No. 3 Summer 2012 Articles Featured Excerpts

“Something curious happens to our ability to understand scope when we move all that goop of process and narrative into a computer.”
Craig Mod

San Francisco Bay National Wildlife Refuge, 1972-2004

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Where Material Book Culture Meets Digital Humanities

Discussions about early modern books and digital tools have tended to focus on one of two responses. One of the first things that people focus on is the amazing access to early modern works that digital tools have given us.

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Topic Modeling and Digital Humanities

Introduction

Topic modeling provides a suite of algorithms to discover hidden thematic structure in large collections of texts. The results of topic modeling algorithms can be used to summarize, visualize, explore, and theorize about a corpus.

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Topic Modeling: A Basic Introduction

The purpose of this post is to help explain some of the basic concepts of topic modeling, introduce some topic modeling tools, and point out some other posts on topic modeling.

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011 Conversations Featured Excerpts

“The debates around the role of ‘theory’ in digital humanities are debates about the relationship between saying and doing.”
Natalia Cecire

“The Real Faces of White Australia”

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Introduction: Theory and the Virtues of Digital Humanities

I came to theory because I was hurting—
the pain within me was so intense I could not go on living.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Who You Calling Untheoretical?

[A note from the author: This blog post, as a piece of prose, is very much of the moment when it was written. Likewise its reception has been based on its tone as well as its content.

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Theory, Digital Humanities, and Noticing

When disciplines collide, as they do throughout digital humanities, the various practitioners mutually benefit from the different knowledge and skill sets that others bring to our collaborations. But there is also an inevitable gap between how different individuals working in different areas understand their various tools and techniques, and in how they understand their own thought processes.

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Building and Sharing (When You’re Supposed to be Teaching)

Much of what I do in my classroom doesn’t necessary count as “digital humanities.” I certainly don’t present my classes as digital humanities classes to my students—or to my colleagues, for that matter.

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Marked Bodies, Transformative Scholarship, and the Question of Theory in Digital Humanities

In October 2011, Natalia Cecire’s off-the-cuff suggestion of a THATCamp Theory set off a ferment of planning and arguing in the digital humanities community. It sounded like a great idea to me.

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Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 2012 Conversations Featured Excerpts

“I believe embedded in the discussion of what constitutes an “archives” is a debate over the importance of authenticity and the preservation of context.”
Kate Theimer

“It’s no longer just about coding and gender; it’s about the kinds of conversations we’re willing to have about uncomfortable questions.”

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Archives in Context and as Context

Approaching the field of digital humanities as an outsider is an interesting experience. It is best compared, I think, to being a tourist in a foreign country for which there are no reliable guidebooks.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Digital Humanities Keywords: A Collaborative Community Web-based Project

Poster

Abstract

As the field of digital humanities has expanded dramatically in recent years, it has also struggled to define—or perhaps more correctly, to redefine—itself across a seemingly divergent set of its practitioners’ backgrounds, interests, priorities, methodologies, and institutional settings that yet still have something fundamental in common.

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Networking the Belfast Group through the Automated Semantic Enhancement of Existing Digital Content

Poster

Abstract

There is increasing work on and interest in social networks in the digital humanities community (Meeks 2011). Analysis is frequently done on digital content—including images (Akdag Salah et al.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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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DH@WIT: Digital Humanities for Undergraduate Design, Engineering, and Management Students

Poster

Abstract

Wentworth Institute of Technology (WIT), an independent, co-educational, technical design and engineering college located in Boston, Massachusetts, offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary, project-based education that integrates classroom, laboratory, studio, cooperative and experiential learning.

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Vol. 3 No. 1 Poster Gallery Featured Excerpts

DH2013 Poster from DARIAH-EU, a European initiative to support digital research in the arts and humanities.

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DARIAH-EU’s Virtual Competency Center on Research and Education

Poster

Abstract

DARIAH (Digital Research Infrastructure for the Arts in Humanities — http://dariah.eu) is a large-scale, long-term, pan-European endeavor aiming to enhance and support digitally-enabled research across the arts and humanities.

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“Where do you need us?” — The National Library in the Digital Humanities

Poster

Abstract

In the past two decades or so, national libraries have been digitising millions of pages of books, newspapers, magazines and other text-based collections. In this digital age, the research landscape is changing rapidly, with scholars able to ask new types of questions and answer them in novel ways by working with a wide variety of materials and in new collaborative modes.

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Juxta Commons

Poster

Abstract

Free and open source, Juxta Commons is an online workspace for comparing multiple witnesses to a single textual work, privately storing collations, and sharing visualizations. Originally offered as a downloadable Java-based application developed by the Applied Research in ’Patacriticism group at the University of Virginia in 2005, Juxta was taken up by NINES (http://nines.org

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Debates in the Digital Humanities: Scholarly Publishing Across Print/Digital Streams

Poster

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Changing Medium, Transforming Composition

Knowing only that they had registered for a first-year writing course, my Spring 2013 students walked into the first class meeting to discover that they had signed up for “Codes: An XML-based Composition Course” (Figure 1).

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Code Appendix for “Changing Medium, Transforming Composition”

Appendix A: Selections from Major Assignment Markup Schemes

Primary Source Analysis

In at least one paragraph match evidence (details) from the primary source with the interpretations you draw from them:

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Vol. 2 No. 3 Features Featured Excerpts

The story of smart and big data.

“As artists it is novel to think that in observing, drawing or modelling we might be capturing, analysing and processing data.”

Gareth Beale, Nicole Beale, Ian Dawson and Louisa Minkin

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Big? Smart? Clean? Messy? Data in the Humanities

This paper is about data in the humanities. Most of my colleagues in literary and cultural studies would not necessarily speak of their objects of study as “data.” If you ask them what it is they are studying, they would rather speak of books, paintings and movies; of drama and crime fiction, of still lives and action painting; of German expressionist movies and romantic comedy.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Pudding Lane: Recreating Seventeenth-Century London

Introduction

In early 2013, Crytek, GameCity, and The British Library teamed up to launch a competition that challenged students to create interactive environments using maps from The British Library and Crytek’s CryENGINE 3, a suite of tools used to develop video games.

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Transforming the Object of our Study: The Early Modern Sermon and the Virtual Paul’s Cross Project

Scholars of early modern England have recently begun to pay more attention to sermons. (McCullough, Adlington, Rhatigan 2011). Scholars have recognized that in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, as Jeanne Shami has put it, sermons were “the mass media of their day,” providing their listeners with reports of “breaking news,” while satisfying “appetites for .

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

On the Origin of “Hack” and “Yack”

One of the least helpful constructs of our “digital humanities” moment has been a supposed active opposition, drawn out over the course of years in publications, presentations, and social media conversation, between two inane-sounding concepts: “hack” and “yack.”

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Using Computer Vision to Increase the Research Potential of Photo Archives

In art history research, photographs of art are the lifeblood of study. Since it’s usually impossible for a scholar to travel the globe and visit an artwork as need arises, there is substantial demand for archives of photographs of artworks for reference and study.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

An Introduction to Alex McDowell’s “World Building”

An influential designer changes the way others design. A deeply influential designer shifts how we think about design by fundamentally changing the role design plays in the creative process, potentially altering audiences’ expectations of creative work that ranges from architecture to computer games.

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“World Building”

Alex McDowell — World Building

Video of this presentation to the Media Systems convening at the University of California, Santa Cruz on August 27, 2012 originally published on September 11, 2013.

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Vol. 3 No. 2 Focus Section Featured Excerpts

“…archival theory and practice need to be an integral element of such a critical framework, along with evolving historiographical and professional practices. The digital medium has challenged historians to expand their knowledge about archives, and understand their function in generating scholarship and knowledge.”

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Digital Historiography and the Archives

The following pieces by Joshua Sternfeld, Katharina Hering, Kate Theimer, and Michael Kramer are based on our session at the American Historical Association (AHA) meeting in 2014, “Digital Historiography and the Archives,” and the series of blog posts based on our presentations that we posted on Michael Kramer’s blog, Issues in Digital History, and cross-posted on AHA Today.

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Provenance Meets Source Criticism

(This is a slightly revised version of the paper from which I spoke at the AHA. I added links, references, a few images, and an introductory paragraph. I also changed the title.)

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

Tenure, Promotion, and the Publicly Engaged Historian

Building on conversations within their respective organizations, in 2007 the American Historical Association, National Council on Public History, and Organization of American Historians organized a working group to evaluate public history scholarship.

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Guidelines for Evaluating Work in Digital Humanities and Digital Media

Introduction

The following guidelines are designed to help departments and faculty members implement effective evaluation procedures for hiring, reappointment, tenure, and promotion. They apply to scholars working with digital media as their subject matter and to those who use digital methods or whose work takes digital form.

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A Community-Sourced Journal

We’re pleased to present the inaugural issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities, which represents the best of the work that was posted online by the community of digital humanities scholars and practitioners in the final three months of 2011.

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Getting Started in Digital Humanities

 When I presented at the Great Lakes College Association’s <a href="http://www.glca.org/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=49&amp;Itemid=108" target="_blank" title="Great Lakes College Association’s New Directions Workshop on Digital Humanities">New Directions</a> workshop on digital humanities (DH) in October, I tried to answer the question “Why digital humanities?”<br/><br/>

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Audience, Substance, and Style

 With this second issue, the <i>Journal of Digital Humanities</i> continues to explore and challenge the composition of the academic journal and our field itself. 
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The Difference the Digital Makes

So much of the content of digital humanities begins in the analog world: documents that are scanned and indexed; maps that are recast in GIS; quantities that are converted to machine-readable tables.

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Closing the Evaluation Gap

With this fourth issue we wrap up the first year of the Journal of Digital Humanities, and with it, our first twelve months of attempting to find and promote digital scholarship from the open web using a system of layered review.

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Expanding Communities of Practice

The materials featured in this sixth issue of the Journal of Digital Humanities expose “communities of practice” in digital humanities beyond the constellations of people and institutions directly engaged in experimental and digitally-inflected scholarship.

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Local Programs, Global Audiences

In the scholarly communication ecosystem, lectures and conference roundtables offer valuable opportunities to share one’s on-going research and reflections with an engaged audience. Although social media, online conference programs, and slideshare sites now boost the signal of scholarly work, talks at conferences are still often limited by the time and place of their delivery.

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Exploring and Designing Virtual Worlds

What can we learn from the creation and exploration of a virtual world? The impulse to create imagined spaces occupies a longstanding tradition in the humanities. Whether it be Plato’s Cave or Mount Olympus or Yoknapatawpha, virtual landscapes hold out the promise to expand our human capacities to create, to imagine, and to analyze beyond our physical constraints.

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Digital Contexts

The digital contexts of our scholarly practice impact not only the kind of work that we may do as humanists, but also how we represent changes in theory and methods over time.

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Pacing Scholarly Conversations

The advancement of scholarship relies on the timely communication of questions, methods, results, and reflections. The iterative publications Digital Humanities Now and the Journal of Digital Humanities are intended to facilitate this process.

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The Digital Humanities Contribution to Topic Modeling

Topic modeling could stand in as a synecdoche of digital humanities. It is distant reading in the most pure sense: focused on corpora and not individual texts, treating the works themselves as unceremonious “buckets of words,” and providing seductive but obscure results in the forms of easily interpreted (and manipulated) “topics.”

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Mapping Texts: Visualizing American Historical Newspapers

Mapping Texts is an ambitious project with a simple mission: to experiment with new methods for finding and analyzing meaningful patterns embedded within massive collections of digitized historical newspapers.

Why do we think this is important?

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Building New Windows into Digitized Newspapers

In building Mapping Texts we wanted to create more transparent windows into the extraordinary wealth of information available in online archives of digitized historical newspapers. We wanted, for example, to be able to see how much information was available for any particular time and place, and then measure just how much of that information was still recognizable — and thus useable — after the digitization process.

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ORBIS: An Interactive Scholarly Work on the Roman World

There are, broadly speaking, four expressions of digital humanities scholarship: research utilizing digital objects, tools, and methods; the publication of the products of that research; the creation, extension, and annotation of digital archives; and the development or improvement of digital tools.

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Modeling Networks and Scholarship with ORBIS

ORBIS is self-defined as a historical transportation network model of the Roman world, but while it is fundamentally a computational model, it is also part of a genre of objects that could be referred to as interactive scholarly works, and so in explaining how to use ORBIS it becomes necessary to also engage with interactive scholarly works in general.

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Vol. 1, No. 3 Summer 2012 Projects Featured Excerpts

“To treat such objects only as tools, and implicitly capable only of providing that which they were designed to provide, undercuts the possibilities of advancing the use of models and modeling in the humanities.”

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ORBIS: An Interactive Scholarly Work on the Roman World

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Mapping Texts: Visualizing American Historical Newspapers

Why do we think this is important?

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Building New Windows into Digitized Newspapers

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Bibliography

The Problem Stated

Blais, Joline, Jon Ippolito, and Owen Smith. New Criteria for New Media. New Media Department, University of Maine, January 2007. http://newmedia.umaine.edu/interarchive/new_criteria_for_new_media.html.

Burgess, Helen J., and Jeanne Hamming.

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Vol. 1 No. 4 Fall 2012 Resources Featured Excerpts

Additional Materials

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Respond to JDH 2.1

The Journal of Digital Humanities “catches the good” by surfacing and highlighting valuable material published on the open web. For this issue we will go one step further, and solicit responses to this edition’s take on topic modeling in the digital humanities.

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Responses from Twitter

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Vol. 3 No. 2 Review Section Featured Excerpts

“In addition to plotting related instances of digital media scholarship and creation, the Guide unpacks digital media, itself as a territory in which coordinates are enmeshed in humanities and social sciences research.”

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Review of The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media (2014)

Ryan, Marie-Laure, Lori Emerson, and Benjamin J. Robertson, eds. The Johns Hopkins Guide to Digital Media. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2014. Print.

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Vol. 1, No. 1, Winter 2011, Reviews Featured Excerpts

Newspaper strip visualization

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Review of WordSeer, produced by Aditi Muralidharan, Marti Hearst, and Bryan Wagner

The WordSeer tool, developed at the University of California, Berkley by Aditi Muralidharan and Marti Hearst with research partner Bryan Wagner, is an exploratory analysis or “sensemaking” environment for literary texts.

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Vol. 1, No. 2, Spring 2012, Reviews Featured Excerpts

Video panels of players during gaming

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QRator at the Grant Museum of Zoology

As you approach University College London’s Grant Museum of Zoology through the streets of Bloomsbury, the first hint that there is something unusual inside the stately Rockefeller Building appears in the banners celebrating its re-opening.

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Vol. 1, No. 3 Summer 2012 Reviews Featured Excerpts

Mapping Newspaper Quality

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Review of ORBIS

Quantitative methods matter in the digital humanities, and are coming to play an ever more prominent role in their discourse. This is driven, in part, by a great increase in interest in simulation modelling.

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Review of The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe, 1769-1794: Mapping the Trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel

Mapping the history of ideas against the actual reading practices of early modern Europeans has intrigued (and troubled) historians at least since Roger Chartier focused our attention on the need to consider the reader, not just the text.

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Review of MALLET, produced by Andrew Kachites McCallum

MALLET Version: 2.0.7
Requirements: Java

Reviewed: 15 February 2013
Tested on: Mac OS X v. 10.8.2, and Windows 7

The MAchine Learning for LanguagE Toolkit, or MALLET, has been one of the “hottest” tools in digital humanities research.

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Review of Paper Machines, produced by Chris Johnson-Roberson and Jo Guldi

Paper Machines Version: 0.3.6
Requirements: Zotero, Python 2.7.3, Java.

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Review: Commons In A Box

One of my teaching goals is to end the practice of “Cul-de-Sac Pedagogy,” where students travel down sheltered roads, drop off assignments, and then make anxious return loops to collect their grades.

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Integrating Architecture into Digital and Public Humanities: Sites and Sounds + MediaNOLA

“Did you know @Tipitinas building has been a gym, radio station, juice bar, restaurant, & brothel? Not all at the same time, of course…”

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Vol. 1, No. 2 Spring 2012 Special Section Featured Excerpts

“Games will likely never produce the same opportunities for discourse as a book, but then why should they?”
Adam Chapman

Photo by Caro’s Lines

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Games and Historical Narratives

The academic study of games — from board games of strategy to online multi-player video games — challenges and disrupts epistemologies held dear in the humanities. Traditional scholarly products such as monographs and journal articles, and to a lesser degree blog posts, are meant to be passively read, whereas games are meant to be actively played.

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The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe Project and the STN Database

The French Book Trade in Enlightenment Europe (FBTEE) database maps the trade of the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel (STN), a celebrated Swiss publishing house that operated between 1769 and 1794. The database was published online on June 25, 2012 and is available here.

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How Swiss was the Société Typographique de Neuchâtel? A Digital Case Study of French Book Trade Networks

Should the famous Société typographique de Neuchâtel (1769-1794) (STN) be viewed as a typical and representative ‘European’ publisher-bookseller, a ‘print shop across the border’ that offered the latest product of the mud-raking underground to the French market, or a provincial, peripheral, and Swiss-focused distraction?

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Living in a Digital World: Rethinking Peer Review, Collaboration, and Open Access

It’s no secret that times are tough for scholars in the humanities. Jobs are scarce, resources are stretched, and institutions of tertiary education are facing untold challenges. Those of us fortunate enough to hold tenured positions at financially stable colleges and universities may be the last faculty to enjoy such comparative privilege.

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Evaluating Collaborative Digital Scholarship (or, Where Credit is Due)

This is the lightly edited text of a talk given at the 2011 NINES Summer Institute, a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded workshop on evaluating digital scholarship for purposes of tenure and promotion, hosted by the Networked Infrastructure for Nineteenth-Century Electronic Scholarship.

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