Category Archives: Digital Humanities at Stanford

The Digital Humanities as Lightning Rod

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

The recent New York Times story on Franco Moretti’s & Matt Jockers’ Stanford Lit Lab presents two classic criticisms of the Digital Humanities: that it is scientism at worst and, at best, using computers to do what humans can already … Continue reading →

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DH11 Network Graphs

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Just a quick note for anyone that wants to critique, analyze or browse the networks I used to create the DH2011 Network Visualization page. I put the original .gephi project file along with csv, gdf, gexf and graphml versions of … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Culturomics

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Erez Aiden and JB Michel just finished their keynote and signaled the end of DH11 (except for a dinner and a few tours of Northern California) and capped off what was, for me, an extremely enjoyable and terribly useful conference. … Continue reading →

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DH11 Opening Keynote: David Rumsey

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I’m happy David Rumsey was asked to open up this year’s Digital Humanities conference because it gave me a chance to personally thank him for making my work, and the work any scholar who needs historical maps from the periods … Continue reading →

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DH11 Day 1, Pt. 1, §2: Natural Language Processing

Posted on June 19, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Today I’m taking the popular Natural Language Processing class led by Stanford’s Chris Manning, who refers to the concept as computational exploration of corpora–another way to express Moretti’s distant reading–but also as “shallow analyses of large scale text”. Interestingly, shallow … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as a Chance to Show Off

Posted on May 31, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

DH11 is coming up soon and, given that I had to take out a second mortgage to pay the registration fee, I’m going to make sure to have a host of beautiful and perhaps even informative visualizations of the work … Continue reading →

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The Digital Humanities as Content

Posted on May 19, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

The following is derived from a presentation I was fortunate enough to have an opportunity to give to the Stanford University Libraries & Academic Information Resources (SULAIR) advisory council on the subject of supporting humanities faculty interested in doing Digital … Continue reading →

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Drupal Finally Got Me

Posted on April 28, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

I never wanted to be a webmaster and always thought the term was hokey. I started developing in Flash because of its emphasis on vector graphics rather than its web portability and avoided Javascript because every time I looked into … Continue reading →

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Ursula Heise Named 2011 Guggenheim Fellow

Posted on April 9, 2011 by Elijah Meeks

Congratulations to Ursula on her being awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to further pursue Cultures of extinction: narrative, database, and biodiversity loss. I’ve been working closely with her these last few months in an attempt to compress and reformulate biodiversity databases … Continue reading →

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