Theme from Macroanalysis: Digital Methods and Literary History (Topics in the...
This chapter describes the how's and why's of topic modeling. Creator(s): Jockers, MatthewDate created: 2003-04-01Date read: 2014-08-07Facet/terms: Formats/Journal articles; Themes/Text mining; Rights:...
View ArticleLevel statistics of words: Finding keywords in literary texts and symbolic...
"Using a generalization of the level statistics analysis of quantum disordered systems, we present an approach able to extract automatically keywords in literary texts. Our approach takes into account...
View ArticleRanking and extraction of relevant single words in text
Describes a technique for extracting the key (significant) words from a textCreator(s): Venta, João; Ferreira da Silva, JoaquimDate created: 2008-08-01Date read: 2014-06-09Facet/terms: Formats/Journal...
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Context for the creation of Jazz
"In 1943, while convalescing from a serious operation, Henri Matisse began work on a set of collages to illustrate an, as yet, untitled and undecided text. This suite of twenty images, translated into...
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Jazz, (Henri Matisse)
"Jazz (1947) is an artist's book of 250 prints for the folded book version and 100 impressions for the suite, which contains the unfolded pochoirs without the text, based on paper cutouts by Henri...
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Matisse: "Jazz"
"Arguably one of the most beloved works of twentieth-century art, Henri Matisse's "Jazz" portfolio - with its inventiveness, spontaneity, and pure intensely pigmented color - projects a sense of joy...
View ArticleCorpus Stylistics, Stylometry, and the Styles of Henry James
"Stylometry provides powerful techniques for examining authorial style variation. This study uses several such techniques to explore the traditional distinction between James's early and late styles....
View ArticleNarrative framing of consumer sentiment in online restaurant reviews
"The vast increase in online expressions of consumer sentiment offers a powerful new tool for studying consumer attitudes. To explore the narratives that consumers use to frame positive and negative...
View ArticleLibrarians And Scholars: Partners In Digital Humanities
"Libraries have numerous capabilities and considerable expertise available to accelerate digital humanities initiatives. The University of Michigan Library developed a model for effective partnership...
View ArticleDigital Scholarship in the Humanities a Creative Arts The HuNI Virtual...
"One of the Australian national virtual laboratories, the Humanities Networked Infrastructure brings together data from 30 different data sets containing more than two million records of Australian...
View ArticleDigital Collections As Research Infrastructure
"Given the importance of digital content to scholarship, institutions are increasingly developing strategic digitization programs to provide online access to both their reference collections and their...
View ArticleDigital Research Data Sharing and Management
"This report of the National Science Board (Board) presents key challenges and recommendations related to the sharing and management of digital research data generated by NSF-funded activities... Bhe...
View ArticleUsers, narcissism and control tracking the impact of scholarly publications...
Lists and evaluates a number of tools for measuring the quality of journal articles, but in the end says none of them are very good yet. "The report concludes that web based academic publishing is...
View ArticleFrom Stacks to the Web: the Transformation of Academic Library Collecting
"Suggests directions for changing the traditional ways in which we build collections and focus resources." --Mandy Havert. Describes how collections and roles will change, but does not address how...
View ArticleInterim Report: Interviews with Research Support Professionals
This preliminary report compares and contrasts the existing service models for digital humanists, specifically historians. There seem to be two types of service models or centers. One is more like an...
View ArticleResearch Infrastructures in the Digital Humanities
This report, sponsored by the European Science Foundation (ESF), outlines and describes what is needed to advance digital humanities research and their supporting research infrastructures (RI). The...
View ArticleInstitutional Repositories, Open Access, and Scholarly Communication: A Study...
A scholarly and well-written article describing the current state of institutional repositories. Includes an extensive literature review, and statistical survey used to determine how and why scholars...
View ArticleUseCaseReport
Outlined a number of use cased for Library Linked Data, including: bibliographic, authority, vocabulary alignment, archives, citations, digital objects, collections, and social networks. The list of...
View ArticleLLD Vocabularies and Datasets
Enumerated various library-related metadata element sets, value vocabularies, and datasets. In combination, these thing support the creation, maintenance, ad use of Library Linked Data (LLD). I was...
View ArticleDraftReportWithTransclusion
Makes the case for Linked Data in libraries. Distinguished between metadata elements, value vocabularies, and data sets. Advocated the Semantic Web as a way for people to "follow their nose", or, in...
View ArticleReading revolutions: Online digital text and implications for reading in academe
Reviews the process of reading with an emphasis on the impact of reading online. Well-documented. Of particular interest is the increasing desire for "good enough" information, and how ease of access...
View ArticleDigital Humanities Implementation Grants
Describes how to apply for digital humanities grants worth between $100,000 and 325,000. Grants are awarded to for computationally-based methods, implementation of new tools, completion of existing...
View ArticleUsability Testing of VuFind at an Academic Library
Describes a usability test against VuFind. Seemed thorough, and brought to my attention a means to measure usability. "Our customized VuFind interface offered many improvements over our old WebCat...
View ArticleReport and Recommendations of the U.S. RDA Test Coordinating Committee:...
Provides an overview of a few tests to see whether RDA is worth the time and effort of implementation. "In conclusion, the Coordinating Committee believes that the high level of community interest in...
View ArticleDigging into data using new collaborative infrastructures supporting...
Describes some of the challenges and solutions to collaborative humanities research surrounding digital content -- "his paper explores infrastructure supporting humanitiescomputer science research in...
View ArticleRapid capture: Faster throughput in digitization of special collections
Outlines a number of short stories -- "vignettes" -- describing established digitization labs and makes conclusions about their processes. What I found most interesting was the scanning process was not...
View ArticleHathiTrust: A research library at Web scale
A nice introduction to what the HathiTrust is. -- "Research libraries have a mission to build collections that will meet the research needs o f their user communities over time, to curate these...
View ArticleKotter's 8-step change model
Outlines how to implement change in an organization.Creator(s): MindtoolsDate created: 2011-01-19Date read: 2011-01-19Facet/terms: Formats/Web articles; Themes/Personnel management; Rights:...
View ArticleAdvanced Scholar Research with the Knowledge Kiosk
Describes the text mining and data analysis done by Crivella West and outlines how the process could be used for scholarshipCreator(s): Crivella WestDate created: 2011-02-24Date read:...
View ArticleE-Science and Data Support Services A Study of ARL Member Institutions
First reports on a survey against ARL libraries on data curation. In short, it doesn't seem as if there is much of a plan. Second, it give 6 case-studies of libraries that are actively doing something...
View ArticleConducting a Data Interview
A poster listing the sorts of questions a librarian should ask when doing a reference interview against a scientist for data management purposesCreator(s): Witt, Michael; Carlson Jake R. Date created:...
View ArticleManaging Research Data 101
A very nice set of HTML (slides) describing what scientists may need to know when doing data management. Creator(s): Graham, Anne; McNeill, Kate; Stout, AmyDate created: 2011-01-18Date read:...
View ArticleCloud-sourcing Research Collections: Managing Print in the Mass-digitized...
Advocates things like the HathiTrust as a cost benefit for libraries. Space saving. Only really useful, they say, if there is cooperation between libraries. I think it will only work if a library...
View ArticleData Curation at the University of California, San Diego: Partnerships and...
A poster from the latest data curation conference in Chicago illustrating who is involved with data management at UCSD.Creator(s): UCSDDate created: 2011-01-25Date read: 2011-03-08Facet/terms:...
View ArticleMeeting Funders Data Policies: Blueprint for a Research Data Management...
From Cornell, describes the creation of a university-wide group charged with data management tasks... "This report summarizes the elements that we expect to be required in data management plans,...
View ArticleHow to Write a Data Management Plan for a National Science Foundation (NSF)...
Outlines the characteristics of a data management plan for NSF: data to be collected, disposition of raw data, analysis, metadata, data products, policies, availabilityCreator(s): Brunt, JamesDate...
View ArticleGender, Race, and Nationality in Black Drama, 1950-2006: Mining Differences...
Describes how the gender of authors was determined or classified using text mining against Alexandra Street Press collection of black literature/plays... "Text mining opens new avenues of textual and...
View ArticleVive la Différence! Text Mining Gender Difference in French Literature
Describes the use of text mining to outline the differences between male and female authors. Females use more pronouns. Males use more quantifiers... "Male authors, for example, use religious...
View ArticleWords, Patterns and Documents: Experiments in Machine Learning and Text Analysis
Introduction to an issue of DHQ. The bottom line, text mining is a useful start, but the scholar needs to make the final assessmentCreator(s): Argamon, Shlomo; Olsen, MarkDate created: 2009-03-21Date...
View ArticleSkilling Up to Do Data: Whose Role, Whose Responsibility, Whose Career?
Outlines some of the different types of skills needed to do the work of data curation: librarian, technician, scientist, and evaluator. Useful for its illustration of the skills... "This paper revisits...
View ArticleSubject Librarian's Guide to Collaborating on e-Science Projects
Describes some of the skills and qualities needed to participate in e-science projects. In short, advocates re-purposing existing library skill for a different environment.... "For liaison or subject...
View ArticleMaking data maximally available
Many articles from Science on the topic of research data, how it is generated, what types it comes in, and the problems of managing it.Creator(s): Hanson, Books; et alDate created: 2011-02-11Date read:...
View ArticleElements of a data management plan
Lists things to discuss in a data management plan.Creator(s): ICPSRDate created: 2009-01-01Date read: 2011-01-24Keywords: data curation; policiesFacet/terms: Formats/Web articles; Themes/Data curation;...
View ArticleHorizon Report, 2011 Edition
Looks into the near-term future and decides that gaming, mobile, ebooks, and learning analytics are the current waves.Creator(s): Johnsson, L, et alDate created: 2011-02-08Date read:...
View ArticleInterpreting MARC: Wheres the Bibliographic Data?
"Programmers who must write the code to interpret MARC have the daunting task of trying to understand a data format that is inherently alien to them. The aforementioned fact and insight can, perhaps,...
View ArticleWhy Purchase When You Can Repurpose? Using Crosswalks to Enhance User Access
"The repurposing of the pre-existing metadata to increase access to digital material was an overall success. Repurposing the metadata proved to be a cost effective alternative to purchasing MARC...
View ArticleAutomatic Aggregation of Faculty Publications from Personal Web Pages
"Many researchers make their publications available on personal web pages. In this paper, we propose a simple method for the automatic aggregation of these documents. We search faculty web pages for...
View ArticleXForms for Libraries, An Introduction
"XForms applications can be used to create XML metadata that is well-formed and valid according to the schema, and then saved to (or loaded from) a datastore that communicates via REST or SOAP. XForms...
View ArticleImplementing Open Access: policy case studies
"This leads me to the concluding suggestion that open access advocates might centre their vision on integrating open access with a new type of digital and global infrastructure that includes all...
View ArticleHundredth Psalm to the Tune of "Green Sleeves": Digital Approaches to...
Provides a set of sound arguments for the use of computers to analyze texts, and uses DocuScope as an example.Creator(s): Hope, Jonathan;Witmore, MichaelDate created: 2010-09-21Date read:...
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