Category Archives: Digital Humanities

HarperCollins Will Create a Searchable Digital Library – New York Times

Mike always has the best quotes: “Texts cannot be put into computers. Neither can numbers. Computers can contain and operate on patterns of electronic charges, but they cannot contain numbers, which are abstract mathematical objects not electronic charges, nor texts, … Continue reading →

talk-transform.pdf (application/pdf Object) Sebastian Rahtze’s excellent slides on TEI/XSLT/XPATH, how to do it, syntax, what it means.

Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project Check out “Ev’ry little bit” “Take me back to New York Town” dreamland. mockingbird and so many more! Andrew B. Sterling and Harry von Tilzer, too

The Pen Gets a Whole Lot Mightier – New York Times The toy is interesting, but what is also interesting is the way it integrates reading/writing/sound. The concept of silent and personal reading is, after all, fairly new. Are we … Continue reading →

The New Facebook Frenzy – News Basic article about pros and cons of Facebook. I didn’t realise you must use a .edu address to join.

I. Sketchy Notes on Enduring Tropes (and pet peeves?) of adoption of emerging technologies: 1. recurring trope: confusing personal practice with general use – “no one will want to x (read text on a computer screen, listen to a podcast, … Continue reading →

WAC and Writing Journals From Colorado States WAC program

XML.com: Microformats and Web 2.0

Official Google Blog: Preserving public domain books