Library as Agent of [Re]Contextualization: presentation available online - Wed, 01 Jul 2009
I’ve uploaded the talk I gave last week at Digital Humanities 2009, “Library as Agent of [Re]Contextualization.” Its text is here [PDF], and the slides are available on SlideShare.

THATCamp: Libraries and Web 2.0 - Sat, 27 Jun 2009
From Digital Humanities 09 to THATCamp, or The Humanities And Technology Camp. It’s an unconference: we (well, Jeremy Boggs, to whom profound thanks) came up with the schedule first thing in the morning. It’s a bare-bones event which apparently cost about $3500 to put on, and has about 100 participants. And [...]

DH09: Funding the Digital Humanities - Thu, 25 Jun 2009
Last session of the conference, and a good thing, because I’m just about burned out on the intense blogging for hours on end. The sadness over this exciting, inspiring, fun conference ending will set in in a few hours. Claire Warwick makes an announcement about the poster competition: the award for outstanding poster goes [...]

DH09 Thursday, session 3: terminology, text as gamespace, architecture - Thu, 25 Jun 2009
Walked in in the middle of Stuart Moulthrop’s talk; a big shame–I’d been looking forward to it. Right now he’s talking about cranky digital poets, like for example John Cayley who reportedly has a problem with people making distinctions between literature and the literary. Stuart Moulthrop, “Literature, ‘The Literary,’ and the Dataworld.” Now he’s talking about [...]

DH09 Thursday, session 2: computational stylistics, Memmott, Pynchon - Thu, 25 Jun 2009
Louisa Connors is up first; “Complementary critical tradition and Elizabeth Cary’s Tragedy of Mariam.” Proposition: a computational stylistic analysis of function words in two sets of texts from the same period and related genres can support more traditional approaches to literary analysis of those texts. Computational stylistics — issues: lack of interest by traditional humanists; appears to [...]