Intelligence Analysts and Humanities Scholars
About halfway through the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science last week, the always witty and insightful Martin Mueller humorously interjected: “I will go away from this...
View ArticleNINES Officially Launches
As someone keenly interested in the possibilities of digital scholarship as well as nineteenth-century British and American intellectual history, I’m delighted to hear of the official launch of NINES...
View Article2007 Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has launched the nominating process for the second annual Mellon Awards for Technology Collaboration (MATC). The awards, given by tech luminaries such as Tim...
View ArticleSocial and Semantic Computing for Historical Scholarship
Under the assumption that many readers of this blog don’t receive the American Historical Association’s magazine Perspectives, you might be interested in this article I wrote for the May 2007 issue....
View ArticleNora Project Screencast
The Nora text analysis and visualization project has a screencast out explaining how to use a new web interface to their server-based software.
View ArticlePersonal WorldCat Lists Now Zotero-Compatible
A great example of what I’ve been calling the “fluidity of bibliography.” WorldCat adds a feature that allows registered users to save and share lists of items they find in the WorldCat catalog. We...
View ArticleCreating a Blog from Scratch, Part 9: The Conclusion
Since its inception until today, this blog was powered by code I had written myself. Some people thought this took a lot of work; to be honest, it was just a few days of simple coding. As I noted at...
View ArticleShakespeare’s Hard Drive
Congrats to Matt Kirschenbaum on his thought-provoking article in the Chronicle of Higher Education, “Hamlet.doc? Literature in a Digital Age.” Matt makes two excellent points. First, “born digital”...
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Introducing Anthologize
A long-running theme of this blog has been the perceived gulf between new forms of online scholarship—including the genre of the blog itself—and traditional forms such as the book and journal. I’m...
View ArticleDigital Journalism and Digital Humanities
I’ve increasingly felt that digital journalism and digital humanities are kindred spirits, and that more commerce between the two could be mutually beneficial. That sentiment was confirmed by the...
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