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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collections get together: standardized schema such as the Library of Congress Subject Headings are annoying to read, outdated, and...

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A 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...

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Tools 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...

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Digital 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...

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The 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...

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WordSeer: 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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