Lezing: Franco Moretti, Quantitative methods in cultural history (Huygens Instituut, Den Haag, december 2009) from Huygens ING on Vimeo.
Posts tagged digital humanities
Sometimes academic projects come about due to a combination of necessity and wishful thinking. TEI by Example was a product of needing to fill a gap in funding, whilst wishing something into existence that I wanted someone else to do in the first place…
So a few weeks ago, I tweeted and posted about this paper Terras, M (2009) “Digital Curiosities: Resource Creation Via Amateur Digitisation”. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 25 (4) 425 – 438. Available in PDF. I thought it worth revisiting the resu…
The people at UCL Discovery are now talking to me, and things are moving forward. I have lots of things ready to go and in the pipeline – which gives me, I reckon, at least one thing to talk about a week on here for the next academic year. I’m also fee…
Well. I bet you are wondering what has happened to my experiment in Open Access Publishing, where I am putting papers up online in our institutional repository, and sharing the best tales behind the papers here.If it has stalled, its certainly not my f…
Sometimes, its things happening in your real life that determine your academic direction.Like most undergraduates academics I occasionally drop the “and this requires further work!” line into a conclusion of a book chapter or paper. I try and store the…
I’m currently trawling through my research papers and submitting them to UCL Discovery to make them publicly available. It is taking more time than I had imagined: not to find the original texts, but for them to go through the system and go live. I’ll …
In the past couple of years, UCL has really been pushing the open access agenda in academia. Announced in 2009, the open access policy statesThat, copyright permissions allowing, a copy of all research outputs should be deposited in the UCL repository…
One of the things I wondered in my last post before I started maternity leave was – what would the status of the blogosphere be when I got back to work, a year later.Unsurprisingly, it’s still here.I’ve been thinking if there is a place for this blog, …
Well. I’ve been officially “back to work” for a couple of weeks, so its time to think about dusting off this blog, and putting it to good use. Until now I’ve been mainly fighting fires, and trying valiantly to climb the email mountain that has accrued…
There are perhaps not many fields in the humanities that can trace their roots to certain individuals, collaborations, and innovative new approaches. But within the application of computing to humanities problems one name looms large. Roberto Busa, one…
Frontiers in Spatial Humanities from Scholars’ Lab on Vimeo. Bethany Nowvisky talks in ‘the final event of our NEH-funded Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship. The Scholars’ Lab/NEH Institute for Enabling Geospatial Scholarship w…
