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By Elizabeth Fox on October 8, 2012
About a week ago, in the between SGA phone calls and Juxta testing, I found myself looking at another digital product: Twitter. In particular, I found myself reading tweets and retweets, blog posts and articles about what has since become known as #twittergate. (I have to take a moment here to thank Annie Swafford, who […]
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By heatherbowlby on February 19, 2012
Heather Bowlby is a PhD student in Victorian Literature at the University of Virginia and 2011-2012 NINES Fellow. In a recent article in The Chronicle, “How Not to Reform Humanities Scholarship,” Gary Olson addresses the role of emerging digital methodologies in efforts to reform humanities scholarship. The increasing call to refashion humanities research by means […]
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By ottelizabeth on October 19, 2011
I recently had the experience of being interviewed for a newspaper article about the Rare Book School, where I work part time. The reporter, a forthright sort of journalist with a minimally cynical affect, told me his angle right from the beginning: the book, it seems—that is, the physical book, that persistent little brick of […]
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By Sarah Storti on March 7, 2011
[Sarah Storti is a NINES Fellow for the 2010-2011 year and an MA Candidate in English at the University of Virginia.] Many interesting questions about the project have been posed already, by people who apparently do have Twitter (unlike me… see the first half of this post from 2/24). I really enjoyed Brian Croxall’s post […]
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By Sarah Storti on February 24, 2011
[Sarah Storti is a NINES Fellow for the 2010-2011 year and an MA Candidate in English at the University of Virginia.] Criticism, skepticism, and healthy resistance are all very well and good, but I must say that in spite of my determined efforts to maintain a critical distance from Google, the company does tend to […]
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By Dana Wheeles on January 6, 2011
In this TED talk, David McCandless shares why he loves data visualization, and how it can help us make sense of “information glut.” I post it here not only because most of us in the Digital Humanities are fascinated by data visualization, but also to tease out your thoughts on some of the concepts he […]
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By heatherbowlby on October 28, 2010
[NINES welcomes Heather Bowlby, a returning Fellow for the 2010-2011 year and a Ph. D. Candidate in the Department of English at the University of Virginia.] About two months ago, I committed what many in literary and book history circles consider to be a grievous sin: I purchased a sleek new Kindle 3. This purchase […]
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By Dana Wheeles on January 5, 2010
On my flight home from MLA in Philadelphia last week I took a moment to think about how NINES has changed since last year’s conference in San Francisco. In December of 2008 the first phase of the NINES redesign had just been launched as part of a major re-organization and outreach effort. Since then, phase […]
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By jeanbauer on November 19, 2009
[Jean Bauer ( Ph.D. Candidate, Corcoran Department of History, University of Virginia), NINES Fellow for 2009-2010 school year] Yesterday I had two conversations about controlled vocabulary in digital humanities projects (a.k.a. my definition of a really good day). Both conversations centered around the same question: what is the best way to associate documents with subject […]
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By heatherbowlby on October 13, 2009
[Heather Bowlby (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, University of Virginia) is a graduate intern at NINES for the 2009-2010 school year] I attended an interesting presentation last week by Timothy Powell on his digitalization project at the Penn Museum’s Native American Center. As director of the Digital Partnerships with Indian Communities group, Mr. Powell works […]
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