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Manifesto for Digital Humanities, from THATCamp Paris
It’s THATCamp season, and while I can’t participate, I am following the twitter stream #thatcamp. From THATCamp Paris, a manifesto for Digital Humanities (I translate from the French below, with a wee...
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Mining a Day of Archaeology
The Day of Archaeology is modeled after the Day of Digital Humanities. Archaeologists from around the world take a few moments to blog about what they’re doing, right now. This year, it was on June...
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Evaluating Digital Work in the Humanities
Leave it to an archaeologist, but when I heard the CFP from Digital Humanities Now on ‘evaluating’ digital work, I immediately started thinking about typologies, about categorizing. If it is desirable...
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Why I Play Games
(originally posted at #HIST3812, my course blog for this term’s History3812: Gaming and Simulations for Historians, at Carleton University). I play because I enjoy video games, obviously, but I also...
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Practical Necromancy talk @Scholarslab – part I
Below is a draft of the first part of my talk for Scholarslab this week, at the University of Virginia. It needs to be whittled down, but I thought that those of you who can’t drop by on Thursday might...
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Some Assembly Required: teaching through/with/about/by/because of, the...
I’m giving a keynote address to the Canadian Network for Innovation in Education conference, at Carleton on Thursday (10.30, River Building). I’ve never done a keynote before, so I’ll confess to being...
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The George Garth Graham Undergraduate Digital History Research Fellowship
My grandfather, George Garth Graham, in the 1930s. At Carleton University, we have a number of essay awards for undergraduate history students. We do not have any awards geared towards writing history...
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-ing history!
Still playing with videogrep. I downloaded 25 heritage minute commercials (non-Canadians: a series of 1 minute or so clips that teach us Canucks about the morally uplifting things we’ve done in the...
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Laws of #DH
From a conversation on Twitter, the Laws of DH; there are likely more: @jaheppler @electricarchaeo But remember Mullen's law®™©: "the best tool is the one you are already using." — Lincoln Mullen...
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If I could read your mind – Sonifying John Adams’ Diary
Maybe the question isn’t one of reading someone’s thoughts, but rather, listening to the overall pattern of topics within them. Topic modeling does some rather magical things. It imposes sense (it...
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