Recent News & Project Updates
06/18/2009
TEI Analytics Published
“TEI Analytics: Converting documents into a TEI format for cross-collection text analysis” authored by Brian Pytlik Zillig has been published in the June 2009 edition of Literary & Linguistic Computing. The abstract of Brian’s article can be seen here
05/28/2009
TokenX 2.0
TokenX 2.0 debuts on the Willa Cather Archive (cather.unl.edu). This new version permits users to search for n-grams (repeated sequences of words) in Cather’s writing. Users may search for bigrams, trigrams, 4-grams and 5-grams. Tabular search results are hyperlinked to a n-gram in context view, and dynamically generated graphs of changes in frequency over time are presented. Data can be exported in delimited format to a spreadsheet. URL: http://libxml1a.unl.edu/cocoon/tokenxcather/index.html?file=../xml/base.xml
05/12/2009
“What is Digital History?”
William G. Thomas, III and Doug Seefeldt have a piece in the current AHA Perspectives on History titled, “What is Digital History?: A Look at Some Exemplar Projects.” It is available online at: http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2009/0905/0905for8.cfm
04/15/2009
CDRH Graduate Students to Participate in Panel
CDRH graduate students Brent Rogers, Nic Swiercek and Michelle Tiedge will present a panel discussion “Historical Scholarship in the Digital Age: Asking New Questions and Exploring New Forms of Scholarly Communication with Digital Techniques” at the Western Social Science Association Annual Conference April 15-18 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Joining them on the panel will be fellow UNL History students Rob Voss and Jason Heppler.
04/09/2009
Nebraska Lecture - The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age
“‘I pass so poorly with paper and types’ – The Making and Remaking of Walt Whitman in a Digital Age”
Kenneth M. Price, the Hillegass University Professor of 19th-Century Literature and Co-director of UNL’s Center for Digital Research in the Humanities, will discuss how The Walt Whitman Archive allows anyone unparalleled access to Whitman’s work and how digital technology has transformed humanities research, at the spring Nebraska Lecture, Thursday, April 9, 3:30 p.m., in the Nebraska Union auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public, with a reception following. It is sponsored by the Office of the Chancellor, the UNL Research Council and the Office of Research. Additional support for this Nebraska Lecture is provided by the Nebraska Humanities Council. more…
To view the lecture as a quicktime movie please click here.
03/16/2009
TokenX on Whitman Archive
TokenX is now available on the Whitman Archive. Created by Brian Pytlik Zillig, TokenX is a powerful text analysis, visualization, and play tool that has been customized for use on the Archive.
The Archive homepage and the “Resources” index page have changed slightly as a result of the addition of TokenX. “Tools” is now included as a subheading under “Resources” on the home page. Also, in the past, clicking on “Resources” on the homepage took the user directly to the teaching materials. The “Resources” page now offers links to teaching, tools, or the Archive search.
02/05/2009
Fourth Annual Nebraska Digital Workshop
The Center for Digital Research in the Humanities (CDRH) at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln will host the fourth annual Nebraska Digital Workshop on October 2 & 3, 2009. Through a competitive process, selected early-career scholars will be invited to present their work in digital humanities. Details are available now on the CDRH website.
01/27/2009
Pathways to SEASR Workshop
Kenneth Price, Brian Pytlik Zillig, and Stephen Ramsay attended the Pathways to SEASR Worshop hosted January 15-16, 2009 by the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois.
01/13/2009
When Was Linearity?: The Meaning of Graphics in the Digital Age
Alan Liu presented a lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 2006 during which he was asked a question starting:
“I’m deeply concerned about the digital age that we live in . . . as a scholar, as a teacher, and, in addition, as a parent. . . . ”
His answer was a seed for a new essay, recently published on the Digital History website, edited by CDRH faculty Douglas Seefeldt and William G. Thomas, III.
12/16/2008
Library of Congress Adds 10,000 Omaha Bee Images
The Library of Congress has added 10,000 new images provided by the CDRH to its Chronicling America website. The site now includes 30,000 pages of the Omaha Bee, comprising issues from 1889 through 1899.
12/15/2008
Cather Archive Completes Short Fiction Project
Thanks to the efforts of Vicki Martin, CDRH Graduate Research Assistant, the Cather Archive now presents all of Cather’s short fiction published before 1923, a total of fifty-seven texts. Each story is presented in full, with transcribed text, page images, and illustrations as they appeared in the original publication.
12/12/2008
Cather Archive Redesigned
Completing a months-long effort in redesign and server migration, the Cather Archive’s new design went live at http://cather.unl.edu on December 8, 2008. Cather Archive editor Andrew Jewell notes that the redesign will enable better site management, improved data sustainability, and a better experience for users.
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