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Going GLAM Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research @j_w_baker
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Going GLAM Dr James Baker
Curator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
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“The emergence of the new digital
humanities isn’t an isolated academic
phenomenon. The institutional and
disciplinary changes are part of a
larger cultural shift, inside and outside
the academy, a rapid cycle of emergence
and convergence in technology and
culture”
Steven E Jones, Emergence of the Digital
Humanities (2014)
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“Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their
analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense
of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational
linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a
large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and
transmitted during this period”
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts:
Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013)
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dasmith/infect-bighum-2013.pdf
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‘Early users of medieval books of
hours and prayer books left signs
of their reading in the form of
fingerprints in the margins. The
darkness of their
fingerprints correlates to
the intensity of their use
and handling. A densitometer
-- a machine that measures the
darkness of a reflecting surface --
can reveal which texts a reader
favored.’ Kathryn M. Rudy, ‘Dirty Books: Quantifying
Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts
Using a Densitometer’, Journal of
Historians of Nederlandish Art (2010)
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discipline camp and
camps sentence
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Demonte
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British Library Big Data Experiment
Machine Learning
Coming Soon!
Crowds & Structured
Data Generation
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Novel Encounters
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Thank you! @j_w_baker
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Slides: http://www.slideshare.net/drjwbaker/
