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Tag Archives: digital history
Digital Humanities GIS projects revisited
A milestone: my list of Digital Humanities GIS projects has now topped 100 entries. It currently stands at 103 entries, the latest to be added being the Google-sponsored Routes of Sefarad, mapping Jewish Heritage in Spain, and Placing Literature, an … Continue reading
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Tagged digital history, digital humanities, gis, maps
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Making the TCP-ECCO texts accessible
In April, the Text Creation Partnership released into the public domain over 2,000 eighteenth century works, in plain text. You can read more about this project and the texts on their blog: TCP Releases Over 4,000 New EEBO-TCP Texts What the … Continue reading
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Tagged archives, c18th, digital history, ecco, eebo, historical commons, history, tcp, textcamp
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Digital Humanities GIS projects
Being involved in a number of projects with a spatial dimension, I’ve been teaching myself digital cartography for over a year. The code, however, is only half the story. Maps are not transparent depictions of reality, there are many problems, … Continue reading
Victorian Books: The Frequency of Revolution
Opened to the public late last year was the long awaited Victorian Books, ‘a Distant Reading of Victorian Publications.’ Working with data from Google Books, Dan Cohen and Fred Gibbs are text mining every book published in Britain in the … Continue reading
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Tagged digital history, digital humanities, google, history, revolution, text mining, victorian
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Google Ngram Games
Google have just opened up their text mining project, a vast and ambitious project to allow searching their digital library for the frequency of words and phrases. It’s an astonishing resource, not only for its research potential but also for … Continue reading
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Tagged digital history, digital humanities, google, history, language, ngram, split infinitive, star trek, swearing, walter benjamin
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The Return of History Workshop
For some time I’ve been considering writing a post entitled “Whatever Happened to History Workshop?” Once it was the flag-bearer of radical history, a product of the struggles of the 60s and 70s, as much a movement as a publication. … Continue reading
DH 2010, day four
For me, the final day was the important one, with both the geography and history sessions taking place. The former saw three excellent presentations, from the University of North Carolina, Ian Gregory and the Hestia project. But the big news … Continue reading
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Tagged community, digital history, gis, history, maps, twitter
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DH 2010, day three
Not such an early start, so I missed Joshua Sternfeld’s talk on Digital Historiography. Annoying, but a sign of a good conference is that there’s too much of interest rather than too little. For me, the important presentation in the … Continue reading
DH 2010, day one
For the next few days I’m a student assistant at Digital Humanities 2010, doing a bit of everything, from giving directions to waving microphones under people’s noses The first day of the conference proper (there’s been many associated events in … Continue reading
The Enclosure of the Historical Commons (2): Murdoch Junior
Last week James Murdoch spoke at the launch of UCL’s new Centre for Digital Humanities. Quite why they invited him I don’t know, for he appears to have no idea of what the Digital Humanities are. That said, his speech … Continue reading
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Tagged british library, commons, digital history, historical commons, murdoch, universities
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