Castanet: automatically generating a browsing structure for a collection
A debate seems to come up when folks in charge of organizing digital collections get together: standardized schema such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings are annoying to read, outdated, and...
View ArticleA text miner’s revelation: how historians use text
As a text miner looking to the humanities as a source of interesting problems, I need to know how “humanities researchers” use text. So I went to Great Lakes THATCamp in March (2010) to find out. I had...
View ArticleTools for Exploring Text: Visualization
In the light of my new tool to help navigate the New York Times, I’ve been reading about previous approaches to the problem of making sense of large collections of text. As far as I can tell, the...
View ArticleDigital Library Interfaces That Work
At the Open AMMP meetup yesterday, I encountered some more people who work with digital collections. A common theme (other than complaints about the tightfistedness and lack of public spirit in...
View ArticleThe Humanities Meet Information Visualization
Attendees listening to Johanna Drucker's keynote at H+Digital at MIT (photo by jeanbaptisteparis) At H+Digital, the visual interpretations conference held at MIT last week, I saw some very cool...
View ArticleWordSeer: Exploring Language Use in Slave Narratives
More and more source text in the humanities gets digitized every day, making it accessible to large scale computational analysis. Nevertheless, traditional methods of humanistic analysis are based on...
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