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In this NITLE white paper, Rebecca Davis, program officer for the humanities at NITLE, and Quinn Dombrowski, scholarly technology manager at the University of Chicago, examine the scope and impact of isolation on the development of the digital humanities at liberal arts institutions. " Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation Is Suppressing Digital Humanities Scholarship " (.pdf) is based on interviews with liberal arts faculty, technologists, and librarians about the state of digital humanities on their campuses.
Divided and Conquered: How Multivarious Isolation Is Suppressing Digital Humanities Scholarship | Quinn Dombrowski
Seadragon and Photosynth demo at TED2007 – istartedsomething
If you’ve never heard of the TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) Conference , then you haven’t seen anything. It’s the equivalent of 100 Steve Jobs keynotes compressed into one conference (without the “Boom!”s) – if you’re interested in the topic, it won’t disappoint. The name doesn’t really catch on as a hip technology conference , but every year , some of the brightest and most entertaining minds come together to talk about how great and grim our world is. Check out this 7-min awe-inspiring documentary about TED . Best of all, it is probably the only conference in the world which offers the best talks available online in fairly high resolution within a reasonable time after the people who’s paid thousands of dollars to see live (Rupert Murdoch, Al Gore, Bill Gates), all under Creative Commons , showing that this isn’t just a conference of smart people, but also a conference hosted by smart people .Newly digitized manuscripts from the Islamic Manuscripts Collection at the University of Michigan, mainly in Arabic, Persian and Ottoman Turkish and dating from the 8th to 20th century CE.
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Discovery | Discover
DHO:Discovery enables serendipitous discovery of related knowledge. By allowing for cross-collection browsing and searching we enable you to draw connections between data that would previously have existed in isolated silos of information. The Discovery interface also enables the leverage of advanced data visualisations that can allow for you to visually seek out patterns and linkage between data for further exploration.
Visualization is a technique to graphically represent sets of data. When data is large or abstract, visualization can help make the data easier to read or understand. There are visualization tools for search, music, networks, online communities, and almost anything else you can think of. Whether you want a desktop application or a web-based tool, there are many specific tools are available on the web that let you visualize all kinds of data. Here are some of the best: Visualize Social Networks
The Best Tools for Visualization
The Poetess Archive
Since the original "coming soon" posting (2006; see below ), the PA has been working with Ira Greenberg and Jerry Gannod on developing this Poetry Visualization tool. Laura Mandell has given several talks on the topic, at MLA and Haverford's conference "Digital Archivalism and the Future of the Humanities," organized by Laura Mcgrane; the powerpoint for this last presentation is available for download here . You may also see and hear a slidecast on this topic . The process of information visualization demands a partnership between artist and data. The artist sets in motion the visualization, which, in turn, reveals truths the artist could not have known. (Martin Wattenberg, in John Maeda .)
Poetry Vizualization Tool in Processing
The Poetry Visualization Tool has been projected since 2006 -- http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~poetess/vmodel/vmodel.html. This slidecast describes the development history so far.
the visible archive
Although the Visible Archive project wound up months ago, its visualisation techniques live on. In particular I've been developing and adapting the title-word-frequency interface of the A1 Explorer, and trying it out on a range of different datasets. One of these spinoff projects - the commonsExplorer - has finally launched. Here, some documentation, reflection and rationale.
the preservation of favoured traces | ben fry
We often think of scientific ideas, such as Darwin's theory of evolution, as fixed notions that are accepted as finished. In fact, Darwin's On the Origin of Species evolved over the course of several editions he wrote, edited, and updated during his lifetime. The first English edition was approximately 150,000 words and the sixth is a much larger 190,000 words. In the changes are refinements and shifts in ideas — whether increasing the weight of a statement, adding details, or even a change in the idea itself.
This site depicts the spread of printing through Europe in the fifty years following the European refinement of the tools and process to make impressions from movable type cast in metal.
The Atlas of Early Printing - The University Of Iowa Libraries
Give your favorite somebody your favorite word map! Now you can order a Visual Thesaurus word map on a t-shirt, mug, even a postage stamp. Simply search for a word, click on the "Share" button on top right hand of the Visual Thesaurus window, and follow the easy steps. We can't think of a better gift -- or a gift to yourself, for that matter! (Hey, we're biased!)
Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus - An online thesaurus and dictionary of over 145,000 words that you explore using an interactive map.
Created by Xarene Eskandar, a graduate student at UCLA, this HyperCities collection curates the “media history” of the election protests in Iran, beginning on June 13, 2009, and continuing through December. As a series of richly curated maps, the collection geo-locates and chronologically organizes more than 800 YouTube videos, Twitter feeds, Flickr photographs, and other forms of documentation. The result is the largest, day-by-day, hour-by-hour, and sometimes even minute-by-minute web documentation of the election protests in Iran. For an overview of this project, click on the YouTube link below: To view the collection, click on the image below.