Text > Data opens with Ryan Shaw, Sep 20
With so much information being created and transmitted through machine-generated text, can we (should we) “read” this text with machines as well? Duke University Libraries confronts such questions with...
View ArticleMissed Text > DATA Sep 20? The next best thing…
Those who attended Ryan Shaw’s presentation last week on text-mining in the humanities and social sciences got a great mile-high view of this approach to textual analysis. If you missed it (and even if...
View ArticleWhy TEI?
When you think of computer-enabled text analysis, do you think of TEI? Whether your answer is yes or no, there’s a reason. TEI (Text Encoding Initiative) mark-up language may be one of the oldest, most...
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The place of social media in one’s academic work (and life)
[Thanks to Adeline Koh for Storify-ing her live tweets of this event! http://t.co/00O0WyoN] Many academics now accept the important influence of social media, paying lip service to its power even when...
View ArticleTo Publish or To Make Public?
Excerpt from “My Norm Is More Normal Than Yours: Academic Tweeting and Loose Fish,” which in its last line nails the problem of social media and academia. Read the full blog by Aaron Brady in The New...
View ArticleNVivo: The free qualitative analysis tool you didn’t know you needed
Duke students and faculty working with different orders of textual data now have free access to NVivo (here, or browse “Word Processing and Productivity” software, then scroll down the alphabetical...
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Stay ahead of the pack with savvy citation management
Librarian Ciara Healy as the Zotero “jammer,” muscling her way past competing citation management software EndNote, RefWorks, and Mendeley. WHAT: Citation Management for the Savvy Academic WHEN:...
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Text visualization of presentations? Check.
If you missed today’s Text > DATA presentation by Greg Appelbaum & Elizabeth Beam, “Mapping the Disciplinary Structure of Cognitive Neuroscience through Semantic & Network Analysis,” you can...
View ArticleText > Data: Mining Oral Histories for Multiple Audiences
Event: Mining Oral Histories for Multiple Audiences Date: Monday, February 18 Time: 3:30-5:00 PM Location: 217 Perkins Library, Duke West Campus (Map) Contact: Liz Milewicz, liz.milewicz@duke.edu,...
View Article“Digitize This Book” puts Duke’s collections at your fingertips
At Duke Libraries we’re piloting a new digitization-on-demand service for our users. Called “Digitize This Book,” it allows registered Duke users to select single-volume public domain books from our...
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Can a game change how we learn about art?
Does the prospect of ownership, even in a fantasy realm, change how we interact with art? That’s the question Duke Art History graduate student Katie Jentleson asked as she worked with undergraduate...
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DH Project Management, or Scoping Infinity
Last night’s panel discussion of DH project management was not just filling (thanks, Scratch!) but also rewarding. The free-ranging discussion surfaced some tensions in building digital humanities...
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DH Sandbox Chat with Hannah Jacobs: Using digital tools to Visualize the New...
This afternoon the Murthy Digital Studio was treated to a DH Sandbox Chat by Hannah Jacobs. Hannah Jacobs detailed how her ‘Visualizing the New Woman’ project investigates through text analysis and...
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Mark Sample comes to the Edge on Wednesday!
Duke Digital Scholarship Services, in conjunction with the Duke PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge, invite you to join us for an afternoon with Dr. Mark Sample! #samplehack Wednesday, February 11, 2015,...
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Hacking at the Library with Mark Sample
Duke Digital Scholarship Services, in conjunction with the Duke PhD Lab in Digital Knowledge hosted a two-day event with Dr. Mark Sample Feb 10-11, 2015. We began with a private PhD Lab gathering with...
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POSTPONED! Text Analysis & Deformance with Voyant. Workshop at the Murthy...
DUE TO INCLEMENT WEATHER, we’ve decided to postpone our 2/25 Voyant workshop. We’ll reschedule for a later date. Duke Digital Scholarship Services invites you to join us for a new workshop on Text...
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DH Sandbox Chats now co-sponsored by the Duke Wired! Lab!
We are proud to announce that our DH Sandbox Chats are now co-sponsored by our innovative friends at the Duke Wired! Lab. We are honored to have their support. Upcoming DH Sandbox Chats: March 4, 4pm:...
View ArticleOmeka: research, instruction, storytelling… oh my!
Omeka, you say? You know you’ve heard it about somewhere – not sure how it’s pronounced, maybe like “omega”? – and it had something to do with a class or maybe an exhibit. People at Duke seem to be...
View ArticlePlaying with digital humanites
It’s such a delight to have Alex Gil back with us this month, to talk about digital humanities! Last year, as part of his visit to Duke to work on a project related to the Francophone Digital...
View ArticleStill buzzing after Alex Gil’s DSS visit!
Last week we had the great honor of hosting Alex Gil. He taught us to use (and hack) Omeka, he provoked us to rethink the scholarly contract, and he inspired us to build playgrounds for the digital...
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