Ghosting, or something else?

via GIPHY Katherine Bode’s The Equivalence of “Close” and “Distant” Reading; or, Toward a New Object for Data-Rich Literary History has been causing a stir. It is a worthy stir – certainly better than heading down to the “what is DH?” stage, made to dance to a series of definitional acts with a sum total feeling not unlike… Continue reading Ghosting, or something else?

On a Collections as Data Imperative

Pleased to share that the Library of Congress has published, “On a Collections as Data Imperative“. The paper seeks to provide three conceptual frames that help guide thinking through how libraries can participate in collections as data work. A snippet: Libraries support individuals working through the many facets of complexity that constitute the human condition. The collections… Continue reading On a Collections as Data Imperative

Wandering, but never alone

I’ve taught in university classrooms, at academic conferences, at institutes, at bootcamps, through creation of resources like the sourcecaster, and tutorials shared via my website. Command line, text analysis, network analysis, image analysis, moving image analysis, web scraping, data curation, and on and on and on. I’ve attained the hard fought technical and conceptual breakthrough… Continue reading Wandering, but never alone