Preliminary Class Business
- New "discussion forum" for class
- See Tom's recent post
- Readings for next class
1. Project Team Formation
- Model of the "unconference" using "open-space" protocols (e.g., DH THATCamps)
- Announce any initial project ideas you may have. Then, take about 10-15 minutes (more if needed) to circulate and talk; use the board if you wish to post ideas and interests.
- Alan's Prezi "Map of Digital Humanities"
- Text Encoding
- Concept of Markup Languages
- Alan Liu, "Transcendental Data: Toward a Cultural History and Aesthetics of the New Encoded Discourse," Critical Inquiry 31 (2004): 49-84
- Text Analysis
- Tools
- Explore text analysis tools in Toy Chest (especially TaPOR , TaPOR 2 beta, and WordHoard)
- Larger list of text analysis tools
- Geoffrey Rockwell, "What is Text Analysis, Really?", Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 209-220
- Excerpt from Julia Flanders, "Detailism, Digital Texts, and the Problem of Pedantry," TEXT Technology No. 2 (2005): 41-70 - read pp. 54-67
- Topic Modeling & Pattern Recognition
- Clay Templeton, "Topic Modeling in the Humanities: An Overview" (2011)
- Stephen Ramsay, "In Praise of Pattern" (2005) (see also the figures accompanying this article)
- Social Network Analysis
- Micro intro
- Mini intro (with tools)
- Full intro: John Scott, "Social Network Analysis," Sociology 22 (2988): 109-27
- Optional: Alan Liu, "From Reading to Social Computing" (draft essay; see also figures for essay) [locked resource; course login required]
- Text Analysis for Truth Finding or "Deformance"?
- Lisa Samuels and Jerome J. McGann, "Deformance and Interpretation," New Literary History 30, No. 1 (Winter, 1999): 25-56
- Jerome J. McGann, "Rethinking Textuality" (also available in print as chap. 5 of his Radiant Textuality: Literature After the World Wide Web [Palgrave, 2001]
- Stephen Ramsay, "Toward an Algorithmic Criticism," Literary and Linguistic Computing 18.2 (2003): 167-174
Class Members:
2. Map of Digital Humanities
3."Distant Reading II" (Digital Humanities methods)
❦ Text Encoding as analysis in the direction of pattern to data (cf., implicit descriptive markup that structures text: In the Beginning Was the Word - A Visualization of the Page as Interface)
❦ Text Analysis as analysis in the direction of data to pattern.
❦ Topic Modeling and the ideal of hypothesis-free text analysis
❦ The trend toward on-demand text analysis: TAPoR, TAPoR 2 beta, [MONK. SEASR] Voyeur
❦ Franco Moretti, "Network Theory, Plot Analysis," Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #2 (2011)
❦ Ed Finn, "Becoming Yourself: The Afterlife of Reception," Stanford Literary Lab Pamphlet #3 (2011)
❦ RoSE (Research-oriented Social Environment) Project
❦ Related concepts: Linked Data, RDF