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I had trouble figuring out what I wanted to do with Omeka, so I decided to archive some of my old books. (You can check it out at bensbooks.omeka.net) For the most part, I collect these books to look at, not … Continue reading →

I have to admit that I had a lot of difficulty with this project, and I think it stems from the fact that I had trouble finding significant meaning in word frequency, at first. I decided to look at The … Continue reading →

From the readings this week, I found the bit about literate programming (in Teaching Computer-Assisted Text Analysis) fascinating. This is the first I have heard of the practice, but this is the theoretical stuff that I love about the digital … Continue reading →

I wanted to talk briefly about Raymond Queneau’s book, “Cent mille milliards de poèmes,” because it came up several times in our readings. What is interesting about this book is that it is pretty much a non-digital hypertext, created before … Continue reading →

I found Marie-Laure Ryan’s “Fictional Worlds in the Digital Age” very interesting. I have been fascinated by imaginary worlds since I was a kid, and read Katherine Paterson’s Bridge to Terabithia (also C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien’s works, of course). … Continue reading →

It seems that what distinguishes a DH project from an ordinary website is a spirit of collaboration and interaction.  Many DH projects are not only designed and built by a group, but the user is often involved in the creation … Continue reading →

I have been in classes before where we were required to post on a discussion forum site, and it always seemed like a chore. I think allowing students to create their own blog for class discussions is a much better … Continue reading →

Digital technology has opened up a world of possibilities for literary studies, from distant reading of texts on the macro-level to worldwide collaborative archival projects, but computers are just another tool that we use; what we do as English scholars … Continue reading →