Category Archives: Digital Humanities

Folger Shakespeare texts digitized and app-ready

Posted on December 12, 2012 by Heather Martin

Techy Shakespeare fans can now read Shakespeare  texts online and create apps and other digital projects with code from those texts.  The freely available Folger Digital Texts are digitized and coded versions of Folger Shakespeare Library editions.

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ARTstor Travel Awards – apply now

Posted on March 17, 2012 by Heather Martin

It’s time to apply for the ARTstor Travel Awards: While the digital age is opening up new ways of using images of the world’s cultural heritage in teaching and scholarship, there is no substitute for engaging with original works and … Continue reading →

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Google Books, humanities, and “culturomics”

Posted on January 3, 2011 by Heather Martin

Missed this article in December: Counting on Google Books Geoffrey Nunberg The Chronicle Review December 16, 2010 Humanities scholars may someday count as a watershed the paper that appeared on Wednesday in Science, titled “Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions … Continue reading →

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Facebook, Roger Ebert, “The Raven,” and rice cookers

Posted on January 2, 2011 by Heather Martin

[or My First Ramblings of the New Year] Roger Ebert posted this video of Christopher Walken’s reading of “The Raven” as a reward for helping him with a test on the reach of Facebook.  This and today’s “CBS Sunday Morning” … Continue reading →

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