dsalo Digital Humanities Questions & Answers » User Favorites: dsalo en-US Tue, 21 May 2013 21:13:46 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/search.php http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents#post-1997 Fri, 03 May 2013 14:12:00 +0000 Patrick Murray-John 1997@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @Ethan Gruber's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents#post-1994">post</a>:</em></p> <p>It's worth mentioning that Scripto itself is CMS-neutral (See <a href='http://scripto.org/documentation/about/'>this</a>). Developers can build their own tools to make it talk with whatever CMS they want. So far, they've built the connectors for Omeka, WP, and Drupal, but more would be awesome.</p> <p>I'm not sure about Scripto to record TEI, though, since the transcriptions are recorded in MediaWiki. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents#post-1996 Fri, 03 May 2013 02:52:39 +0000 Ben Brumfield 1996@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @Ethan Gruber's <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents#post-1994">post</a>:</em></p> <p>These are excellent questions, Ethan.</p> <p>Regarding image importing, at the moment the only transcription tools I know of supporting any sort of integration with external images are Scripto (Omeka, Wordpress, Drupal), FromThePage (Internet Archive), Islandora TEI Editor (Fedora), the (closed-source) BYU Historic Journals project (ContentDM), and Zooniverse Scribe (via deep-linking to any image on the internet, at a per-page level). This is, in my opinion, a serious and non-trivial problem with all transcription tools -- just last week I talked with a librarian who really wanted to use T-PEN for medieval manuscript fragments, but was going to use Scripto instead, purely because the images were on their Omeka site. It seems like rather than using the right tool for the job--and my own FromThePage would be just as inappropriate as Scripto for this use--she was using the tool which integrated with her CMS. The problem is that it's a lot of effort to integrate tool X with CMS Y, and it's not a problem that scales well across either dimension.</p> <p>I'm not aware of any transcription tools that do linked data at all. I know that I've looked into it for FromThePage, but those investigations remain just that -- exciting ideas which do not override improvements to the core tool.</p> <p>Regarding exports, the XML-(or TEI)-native T-PEN and Bentham Transcription Desk should support export of whatever TEI you use to put into them. Ditto for MOM-CA-based tools like Itinera Nova, Monasterium, Virtuelles deutsches Urkundennetzwerk as well as the Papyrological Editor. Mind you "should" is my own term -- I don't know if any of these tools actually feature an 'export' button or API. FromThePage converts transcripts, subjects, indices, and edit histories into one big HTML file for export, with classes which may allow extraction and conversion. (I explored TEI export in 2009, but at the time had no background in TEI and abandoned the project -- things will be different soon, however.) I gather that Scripto exports to the CMS which is its database-of-record, and suspect that CrowdCrafting may well have an export feature as well.</p> <p>I love your idea of combining annotation and open data -- it seems to come up all the time in conversation these days, but I don't know of any projects which have gotten beyond the idea stage. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/collaborative-software-for-transcribing-digital-images-of-handwritten-documents#post-1994 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 17:40:20 +0000 Ethan Gruber 1994@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Sorry, to dredge up an old topic, but are any of the tools listed here capable of importing images from or otherwise interacting with DSpace? FromThePage appears to support some of the annotations that I would like to make about manuscript images, but I want to avoid making duplicates of images, if possible (since various derivatives will already be available in DSpace, should I elect to use it).</p> <p>Also, is anyone aware of annotation tools that interact with web services, such as linking manuscripts to resources defined in VIAF or Geonames?</p> <p>What sorts of export mechanisms are provided by these annotation tools? Can I export to TEI? MODS? Something else?</p> <p>I envision using an annotation tool in the back-end to generate TEI or some other robust form of metadata with links to thesauri like VIAF, Geonames, or the Pleiades Gazetteer of Ancient Places in order to import a lot of open data for enhanced context, generate maps, etc. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-exists-as-an-open-platform-for-editorial-management#post-1990 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 19:37:44 +0000 kevin.s.hawkins 1990@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>In fact, when configuring a journal in OJS, there's an option to say that the OJS is used only for submissions and editorial management but not for actually publishing the journal. This prevents the "current issue" and "archives" links from appearing in the interface, confusing readers. See <a href="http://journal.tei-c.org/" rel="nofollow">http://journal.tei-c.org/</a> for an example of an OJS instance that is used for managing submissions but not for actually publishing issues.</p> <p>Here is a list of things that at one point or another struck me as covering editorial management. Many are not open-source, but I'll let you sort through for anything of interest:</p> <ul> <li><a href="http://www.bepress.com/edikit.html">EdiKit</a> (being rebranded as "Digital Commons Publishing")</li> <li><a href="http://highwire.org/publishers/benchpress.dtl">Bench&gt;Press</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.epress.ac.uk/">epress</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/homepage/home.htm">Editorial Manager and Preprint Manager</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.subs-espere.org/">Espere</a></li> <li><a href="http://library.queensu.ca/webir/planning/e-journal_publishing_support.htm">http://library.queensu.ca/webir/planning/e-journal_publishing_support.htm</a></li> <li><a href="https://jscholarship.library.jhu.edu/handle/1774.2/32737?show=full">A Survey and Evaluation of Open-Source Electronic Publishing Systems</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.ejpress.com/">eJournal Press</a></li> <li><a href="http://scholarone.com/">ScholarOne</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.editorialmanager.com/homepage/home.htm">Aries Editorial Manager</a></li> </ul> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-exists-as-an-open-platform-for-editorial-management#post-1983 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:48:51 +0000 johnlaudun 1983@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I don't know about the two WordPress solutions -- though I have been really, really impressed with all the things that can be done, and done well, with WordPress in general -- but I'd like to echo the Open Journal software and its cousins (Open Conference et al.). I've been on the reviewing side of the setup, as well as someone who reads a number of open access journals published using the OJS setup, and I have to say it is very close to painless. Easy to use. Nice outputs. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-exists-as-an-open-platform-for-editorial-management#post-1982 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 21:31:25 +0000 Dorothea Salo 1982@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>For WordPress, look into the Atahualpa and Montezuma themes, both of which are specialized for publishing workflows. (Read <a href="http://blogs.cetis.ac.uk/philb/2012/03/13/cetis-publications-now-on-wordpress/">an account of publishing with Atahualpa</a>.) Having tangled with and bounced off Montezuma, I can say that there's a significant learning/customization curve, but whether it's worth climbing for you is yours to answer.</p> <p>If PressForward ever gets out of vaporware stage, it too is likely to be worth looking at.</p> <p>If you want to move to Drupal, there's an <a href="http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/5913">excellent article in Code4lib Journal</a> you should read. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-exists-as-an-open-platform-for-editorial-management#post-1979 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:56:02 +0000 Trevor Munoz 1979@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>You could look into using an instance of Open Journal Systems, an open source management system for peer reviewed journals from the Public Knowledge Project. You'd want it essentially just for its backend management systems not for actually publishing the journal since that's happening through Wordpress. The OJS site and documentation can be found here: <a href="http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs" rel="nofollow">http://pkp.sfu.ca/?q=ojs</a></p> <p>Of course, then you have two systems to manage and support. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-exists-as-an-open-platform-for-editorial-management#post-1978 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 20:51:08 +0000 Jason Heppler 1978@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I'm looking into platforms that can be used as an editorial management system for a project I'm providing assistance with. I'm working with a faculty member who is publishing reviews of dissertations with WordPress. The challenge he and his co-editor are having is with their system for keeping track of editors, people contacted for review, and the state reviews are in. They have a large editorial team assigned to specific historical fields, who work directly in finding reviewers and soliciting reviewees. </p> <p>What they're running up against is tracking all these people. They currently are using Google Spreadsheets to track who has been contacted, who needs contacting, if someone's been contacted and declined review, if someone's been contacted and wants to be reviewed but needs a follow-up, tracking the state of review drafts, and so on. But it's starting to be a pinch point (part of the problem is different field editors can potentially contact the same reviewee or reviewer -- they want something more unified that anyone can query and track statuses). Short of building their own database system to track everyone, are there other solutions that already exist in managing people and content for journals? I've looked at system like Annotum and Edit Flow, but I don't think they're quite what they need. It doesn't need to be built on top of WordPress, either. </p> <p>Any thoughts? Would Drupal serve as a better alternative? Should we build something from the ground-up? </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1953 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 01:00:08 +0000 pcfyfe@gmail.com 1953@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>Sounds great and I'd be interested to see how the syllabus develops, if you're willing to share it as you go. A few suggestions to fill in some of the C19th:</p> <p>Have a look at Andy Stauffer’s article “Ruins of Paper: Dickens and the Necropolitan Library” (RaVoN 2007) <a href="http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/016700ar">http://id.erudit.org/iderudit/016700ar</a> and the sources within, including Dickens’s wonderful <em>Household Words</em> piece “Bill-Sticking” <a href="http://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-ii/page-601.html">http://www.djo.org.uk/household-words/volume-ii/page-601.html</a>. </p> <p>Speaking of Dickens, you could both theorize and experience information overload by assigning <em>Bleak House</em>, a novel deeply interested in the circulation of documents as well as the shortcomings of institutions designed to manage them. Reading an enormous novel would also give you occasion to reflect on modes of reading, memory habits, etc. then and now.</p> <p>On the shorter side, try George Eliot’s fascinating novella <em>The Lifted Veil</em>, in which info overload is figured as uncanny omniscience. Richard Menke has a chapter in <em>Telegraphic Realism</em> which brilliantly links those thematics to the emergence of photography.</p> <p>Also, you might check out some of the references to the information overload within the C19th periodical press in <a href="http://diginole.lib.fsu.edu/eng_faculty_publications/1/">this article</a>. </p> <p>Lastly, add to your critical contexts list David Weinberger’s recent <em>Too Big to Know</em>. </p> <p>Good luck! -- Paul </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1948 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 02:33:33 +0000 Dorothea Salo 1948@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>What? No Memex? <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/">There must be Memex</a>. Memex is obligatory.</p> <p>Re the above suggestion, I have <a href="http://pinboard.in/u:dsalo/t:trithemius">an entire linklist</a> that is more or less Trithemian that may be of use. Also a <a href="http://misc.yarinareth.net/trithemius.html">half-assed but Creative Commonsed translation</a> of some of the Good Bits. Apologize to your students for my abysmal Latin skills. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1947 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 15:30:30 +0000 jean_bauer 1947@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I think you have a great list already. One work I like to have students read, is </p> <p>De Laude Scriptorum (In Praise of Scribes) by Johannes Trithemius. </p> <p>It was written in 1492 and is a call for monks to continue the scribal tradition despite the invention of moveable type. I've found it be be an excellent conversation starter on how texts are created, the modern emphasis on "original" work, and a nice starting point for a discussion of information overload. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1946 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:59:59 +0000 Josh Honn 1946@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p><em>Replying to @<a href='http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/profile/rachaelsullivan'>rachaelsullivan</a>'s <a href="http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1945">post</a>:</em></p> <p>Two short novels that may be interesting for this class are <em>Bartleby &amp; Co.</em> by Enrique Vila-Matas, and <em>The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira</em> by César Aira. The former is about writers (most real, a few imaginary) who at some point made the decision not to write; the latter is a bit harder to encapsulate but I've reviewed it <a href="http://asymptotejournal.com/article.php?cat=Criticism&amp;id=42&amp;curr_index=2">here</a>.</p> <p>As for non-fiction, maybe Rita Raley's work through courses like <a href="https://engl252.wordpress.com/">"Distracted Reading"</a> and her recent talk on <a href="http://www.livestream.com/mithdigitaldialogues/video?clipId=pla_d75c5f1b-4500-4b7c-acf0-6892d0e49412&amp;utm_source=lslibrary&amp;utm_medium=ui-thumb">disintegrated reading</a>, and N. Katherine Hayles on <a href="http://engl449_spring2010_01.commons.yale.edu/files/2009/11/hayles.pdf">hyper attention</a>. </p> <p>Many of the "debates" (usually just <a href="http://www.dispositio.net/archives/1340">sensible responses</a> to <a href="http://lareviewofbooks.org/article.php?id=1040&amp;fulltext=1">shitty opinion pieces</a>) in DH on literature as data would be good here, too. Oh, and drones and Google Glass. And things like <a href="http://onemilliontweetmap.com/">this</a>. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/what-texts-would-you-use-in-a-literature-of-information-overload-course#post-1945 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 20:55:43 +0000 rachaelsullivan 1945@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>This fall, I'm teaching a course called "Literature of Information Overload." It's a 200-level undergraduate course in English. Students will mostly be sophomore English majors, I'd imagine.</p> <p>I need help with selecting texts for this course! Below is a draft of the course description and a list of texts I've started (obviously I won't include all this on the syllabus, but I just wanted to give a sense of what I'm thinking). I'm looking for fiction, non-fiction, films -- you name it. Even if I don't use something in the syllabus, I'd like to compile a longer list of "recommended reading and resources" to post on the course website. <strong>I'm open to all ideas/suggestions.</strong><br /> - - - -<br /> <em>Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense. They listen so much that they forget to be natural. This is a nice story.<br /> <a href="http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/stein-atom-bomb.html">Gertrude Stein, 1946</a></em></p> <p>Information overload is a contemporary cultural concern with a rich past. This course will cover a broad sampling of texts from different time periods to consider how our current confrontation/struggle with digital technologies both <em>is</em> and <em>is not</em> new. We will pay attention to the various forms that information overload takes: a pathological condition, a burden on attention and social bonds, a renaissance of knowledge access and production, and even a non-issue. Most importantly for our purposes, the texts we read and view will help us to ask how our understanding of knowledge, literature, and even ourselves evolves alongside technological innovations. Through studying texts that comment on, represent, and/or actually produce the feeling of overload in readers, we will encounter questions like:</p> <ul> <li>How do people experience and describe information overload (or a sense of "too much") across cultures and chapters of technological development? In what ways is the contemporary predicament of information management similar to and different from struggles of the past?</li> <li>How does information overload contribute to distraction and changing modes of attention, and why is this relevant to today's readers of literature? </li> <li>What are the differences between information and literature? What is at stake in efforts to make a distinction?</li> <li>If we accept the story of how humans are becoming increasingly dependent on their reference tools and technological devices, what new types of machine-human hybrids emerge? What reasons might we find for accepting or resisting this cyborg vision?</li> </ul> <p>Through engaging with these questions and the texts (some alphabetic and others visual) on the syllabus, we will learn how information overload functions as a subject matter, a form or structuring device, and an affect generated by the work itself. This final affective quality of information overload (the feeling of having <em>too much</em> to know and organize) is a familiar frenemy of college students, so I hope that you will draw on your personal experiences to enlighten our discussions and inform your writing.<br /> - - - -<br /> <strong>ideas for literary texts</strong><br /> Jonathan Swift, "The Battle of the Books" (1704)<br /> Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself" (1855)<br /> Gertrude Stein, selections from <em>Tender Buttons</em> and/or "Composition as Explanation"<br /> Jorge Luis Borges, "The Library of Babel" (1941)<br /> Thomas Pynchon, "Entropy" (1960)<br /> Franz Kafka, "The Burrow" (1971)<br /> Michael Joyce, <em>Was: annales nomadique: a novel of internet</em> (2007)<br /> Something YHCHI<br /> Nick Montfort &amp; Stephanie Strickland, <em>Sea and Spar Between</em> (2010)</p> <p><strong>ideas for critical/theoretical texts</strong><br /> Alex Wright, selections from <em>Glut: Mastering Information Through the Ages</em> (2007) Specifically the introduction and chapters on "The Ice Age Information Explosion" and "The Age of Alphabets"<br /> Tom Standage, selections from <em>The Victorian Internet</em> (2007)<br /> Vannevar Bush, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/">"As We May Think"</a> (1945)<br /> Neil Postman, <a href="http://w2.eff.org/Net_culture/Criticisms/informing_ourselves_to_death.paper">"Informing Ourselves to Death"</a> (1990)<br /> Philip Elmer-Dewitt, <em>Time</em> magazine article: <a href="http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,978216,00.html">"Take A Trip into the Future on the Electronic Superhighway"</a> (1993)<br /> Clay Shirky, <a href="http://boingboing.net/2010/01/31/clay-shirky-on-infor.html">"It's Not Information Overload. It's Filter Failure"</a> (2008)<br /> Ann Blair, <a href="http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/11/28/information_overload_the_early_years/">"Information overload, the early years"</a> (2010) or a selection from <em>Too Much to Know: Managing Scholarly Information before the Modern Age</em> (2010)<br /> Nick Carr, <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/07/is-google-making-us-stupid/306868/">"Is Google Making Us Stupid?"</a> (2008)<br /> Cathy Davidson, introduction and chapter 6 ("The Changing Workplace") from <em>Now You See It</em> (2011)<br /> Elizabeth Gruber Garvey, selections from <em>Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance</em> (2012) </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/where-can-i-get-data-for-a-map-of-all-of-the-letters-a-historical-figure-sent#post-1939 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:51:18 +0000 Dorothea Salo 1939@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>I think you might need to ask yourself "who might have compiled such a dataset, for whom, and why?" This would require at minimum looking at every single letter, so voluminous correspondents (e.g. the Adams dynasty in America) are right out. People who live all their lives in one or a very few places would produce an entirely uninteresting dataset.</p> <p>So you're looking for someone who wrote some but not too many letters, who traveled enough to make the geographic sources of those letters in some way interesting, and who is prominent enough (or whose travels, Odysseus-style, are intriguing enough) for someone to have compiled precisely that information.</p> <p>That doesn't strike me as very many people. </p> http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/topic/accessibility-open-access-etc-recommended-articles-and-papers#post-1938 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 22:46:57 +0000 Dorothea Salo 1938@http://digitalhumanities.org/answers/ <p>That's... a tall order. Could you tell us a little more about the context in which you're encountering these topics? </p>