New questions from the Digital Humanities Q & A site (http://digitalhumanities.org/answers) will automatically also be posted here.

Feel free to ask either questions you’re wondering about (what does ADHO stand for? what DH conferences exist in my country? how do I use the DH Slack?) or questions you used to have and got answered (that others might benefit from reading about).

(i misread at 1st as dh propa-ganda)

I tried to use & + or capitalize Q/A, but it wouldn’t let me. We can change it to something clearer if anyone has a suggestion? (I thought #introtoDH at first, but @patrickmj suggested tying it into the existing DH Q & A site.) #DHquestions?

and here I read it as DH panda

https://digitizedhistory.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/2496129681_bf54440149_m.jpg

I am very new to digital humanities, but now that I learn more about it, I feel like I have always been a part of it. One of my fields of study is corpus linguistics. I was wondering if there are other sites (apart from the amazing http://www.infiniteulysses.com ) where users come to read/use either a text (such as a novel or a document) or an archive. I am interested at looking on interface design of websites that are made to allow people to access repository of raw texts and ways of allowing users to interact and sort them . I think in other words, I was also asking about other projects, similar to infinite ulysses that I could look at. I’m not even sure how to look for them. Or I would be interested to just look at other exciting DH projects online. Thank you!

@olaswa: Lacuna Stories (http://www.lacunastories.com) is a good example that helps users make connections among multiple texts while annotating; @mwidner has done some amazing coding over there, and Infinite Ulysses builds on some of his code! I know http://shelleygodwinarchive.org has been thinking about ways to let the public transcribe, annotate, and markup with TEI (although you can’t yet do that through their interface). I’m working (with Dino Felluga at Purdue, Neil Fraistat, and others) to get Romantic Circles (https://www.rc.umd.edu/), BRANCH (http://www.branchcollective.org/), and some other literary websites on the same backend so they can share public participation tools like annotation and text analysis.

@olaswa: There are a bunch of sites (more history than literature ones) that crowdsource transcription and related activities, such as: Transcribe Bentham (http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/transcribe-bentham/), Smithsonian Transcription Center (lots of dofferent types of projects, https://transcription.si.edu/), National Archives Citizen Archivists Dashboard (http://Archives.gov/Citizen-Archivist), Zooniverse (more aimed at “citizen science” projects, but has a neat “build a project” feature I need to check out; https://www.zooniverse.org/), Papers of the War Department (http://WarDepartmentPapers.org), a bunch of projects NYPL Labs does (e.g. Building Stories, http://BuildingInspector.NYPL.org), and http://Whaling.OldWeather.org. Photogrammar is a cool project that takes the photos/metadata available through the Library of Congress site (http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/fsa/) and makes them more accessible by adding neat ways to search and visualize them (http://photogrammar.yale.edu/).

@olaswa: Voyant (http://voyant-tools.org/) and Juxta (http://www.juxtasoftware.org/) let you play with your own texts—Voyant is cool text analysis/visualization stuff, while Juxta lets you get stats and visualizations for collating (comparing) two texts you paste in.

@olaswa: A lot of DH sites open to public participation use keywords like participatory, engagement, and crowdsourcing (sometimes “meaningful crowdsourcing”). There was a cool symposium on interdisciplinary crowd projects in May (http://www.crowdconsortium.org; that site has various resources on it) and a bunch of Storifies of attendees’ tweet (https://storify.com/literature_geek).

Thank you Amanda! these are all wonderful resources!

There’s a conversation happening over at the Programming Historian about how to make the journal more friendly for women to contribute to, and I’m hoping people here might be willing to add their own voices: https://github.com/programminghistorian/jekyll/issues/152

FWIW I think it’s also a good goal to keep in mind re: this Slack #meta

@mdlincoln: That’s a good point (#meta).

Does anyone have materials from a course on topic modeling from DHSI or a similar organization? If so would they be willing to share that information here? Thank you!

One starting point might be the Programming Historian lesson on topic modeling: http://programminghistorian.org/lessons/topic-modeling-and-mallet

[topic change] us geezers tend to bemoan the good old days when people had skill X that they don’t have much anymore… but in STEM fields the graphs for skills like quantum mechanics must be dramatically up-sloping…so are there comparable upsloping graphs for humanities skills? eg aren’t there a whole lot more people capable of cranking out a decent novel? or playing decent jazz? or composing a funny tweet?

(maybe what i’m asking is what domains of the humanities have been most successfully training students)