senior lecturer in digital humanities @ the University of Edinburgh. Books, digital things, sourdough, somewhat irregular tweeting.
Joined June 2009
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It’s our #datasittersclub guest Data-Sitter @jbyszuk! using stylometric methods to investigate ghostwriters #DH2023
Now Nichole Nomura on “readability formulas” and the YRDL database (Young Readers Database of Literature) #DH2023
#DH2023 Of interest to those wanting to use NLP on TEI documents: standoffconverter github.com/standoff-nlp/stan… Changes TEI XML to plain text and identifies sentences with <s> which go back into the TEI
@thatbudakguy: Questions around labor turned out to be central to the Humanistic NLP project #DH2023
Room bursting at the seams for Ryan Dubnicek & @Ted_Underwood's paper on identifying English-Language fiction in HathiTrust. Takeaway 1: ML classification can work, but edge cases are challenging even for humans #DH2023
Other takeaways: Sampling logic is more significant than statistical models; publication date is perhaps the most important factor when classifying; human-produced metadata is not infallible #DH2023
Q: "So do we now know the features by which fiction can be classified?" Ryan Dubnicek: "I hid that slide" #DH2023
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Thomas O’Connor presents the data model for the CLERICUS project, which is looking for collaborators #DH2023
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'Not Just Books! Digital Collections and Resources' -
Doctoral Open Day at The British Library (25 August)
Web archives, metadata, born-digital collections and more - come and speak to our digital research experts!
Programme & booking link: bl.uk/research-collaboration…
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Here's the link to an article about the Rigasche Zeitung Newspaper project by @krkryger and Kaarel Vanamölder, for those who missed the paper: kirj.ee/acta-publications/?f… #DH2023
#DH2023 Sarah Kenderdine describes the astonishing Songlines exhibition which began when Australian Indigenous community members sought help to preserve vital songs & stories. An important step in Indigenous/cultural heritage relations. Go see it on tour! nma.gov.au/exhibitions/songl…
We made a thing in the “Game Design as an Exercise in Formal Abstraction” workshop! #DH2023
Anouk Lang retweeted
Digital humanities is about to be wild.
I pasted in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad, and asked GPT with Code Interpreter to map the origins of the Greeks. With hiccups, it extracted solid information from the text, found modern locations & started building an interactive map
As part of my work for my department's working group on generative AI, I tried out @mattshumer_'s gpt-author package this afternoon, with a #datasittersclub-esque prompt. A few hours later and it's available through the Kindle store: amazon.com/dp/B0C9FZKWB9/ +
(technically, it is my cat who has published it. Her bio, designed to get past Amazon quality control but not escape human readers: "Poppy Padpaw lives in Edinburgh with her family. When not writing books, she enjoys birdwatching, rockclimbing and snoozing in the sun") +
I also opted to publish it as a print on demand paperback, which should be available in the next few days, and discovered that a) ISBNS are expensive, ca £91 each! but b) Amazon gives you one for free if you also publish your (generated) Kindle ebook as a POD book #bookhistory