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Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by Evaluating the quality of electronic texts « Digital Scholarship in the Humanities

Fri, 09 May 2008 18:31:23 +0000

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Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by pobres pero honrados - Tapera

pobres pero honrados - Tapera — Fri, 09 May 2008 15:25:47 +0000

[...] unos días, Lisa Spiro en su blog Digital Scholarship in the Humanities escribió un post (How many texts have been digitized?) en el que comenzó a mapear los usos que ella misma aplicó a los recursos digitales orientados a [...]

Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by lms4w

lms4w — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:27:00 +0000

Thanks, Bill! That reverse engineering took a lot more work than I thought it would, but I was pretty curious to see the results. By the way, I’m loving The Programming Historian (Bill’s excellent, practical primer on programming for non-programmers: http://niche.uwo.ca/programming-historian/index.php/Main_Page)

Comment on Becoming a “Digital Scholar”: Digital Discovery 2008 by DigiNative Wanne(May)be(Not) « MEDIA PRAXIS

DigiNative Wanne(May)be(Not) « MEDIA PRAXIS — Thu, 08 May 2008 18:19:35 +0000

[...] Just found Digital Scholar in the Humanities blog on “Becoming a Digital Scholar.” Lisa Spiro defines this term, one that certainly circles my work. However, I wonder what [...]

Comment on YouTube Scholarship by lms4w

lms4w — Thu, 08 May 2008 17:59:19 +0000

Hi Alex,

Great to hear from you! I’ve been fascinated by your YouTube experiment and can certainly see limitations with YouTube. There are alternative sites for scientists (such as SciVee) and educators (such as EduTube), but I worry that if academics set up their own video sites they will isolate themselves from the rest of the culture. But maybe sites set up around particular communities of interest can break down those potential barriers….

Comment on YouTube Scholarship by MP:me

MP:me — Thu, 08 May 2008 15:38:34 +0000

I enjoyed chancing upon your blog this morning, which ended with this one, somewhat dated, I see. I spent last semester teaching about and on YouTube in an experimental class (www.youtube.com/mediapraxisme). While I entirely agree that video will become an important scholarly medium, I learned from the course that YouTube’s corporate imperatives are limiting the complex functions we need to teach and write well with video in an academic setting. Of course other sites can and will offer what might work better, but I think it’s important to think historically about the quick (corporate-led) consolidation of media forms and formats, and how YouTube video (short, concise, easy to get: what I call slogans) are quickly becoming the standard for all on-line video. I write extensively on this on my blog, aljean.wordpress.com and would love feedback from HASTAC-types.

Alex

Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by lms4w

lms4w — Thu, 08 May 2008 14:09:45 +0000

@jge– Good point! I’ll be addressing metadata in my next post…

Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by William J Turkel

William J Turkel — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:59:08 +0000

Lisa, this is a fascinating result. My hunch has been that a lot more stuff has been digitized than most people think (at least most people who aren’t into digital humanities). But I haven’t seen anyone go through an existing work of scholarship and try to ‘reverse engineer’ the source base in digital form. Bill

Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by jge

jge — Thu, 08 May 2008 11:38:42 +0000

You have to keep in mind, using google books, that the metadata offered there are not very good. That means one should not only use title/author as search terms but prominent phrases of a text, because it may be possible that ocr of the title page was not correct, but ocr of the full text was successful.

Comment on How many texts have been digitized? by Early Modern Notes » New resources for making digital history

Early Modern Notes » New resources for making digital history — Mon, 05 May 2008 22:28:15 +0000

[...] focuses on the finished products and what they can do for your research as an end-user (eg, this recent post). But if you get involved in the creation of digital resources, you have the opportunity to [...]