AbstractThe recent spike in attempts to ban books within the United States necessitates attention within librarianship, as to the root causes of book challenges, and the similarities and attributes of frequently challenged books. This analysis utilizes topic modeling to explore the content of frequently challenged and banned literature, in order to inform debate about how to address attempts to ban…
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Black Art Digital Humanities
Abstract “Black Art Digital Humanities” examines Black Art history related digital projects. The essay first discusses the digital exhibition “Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas.” Mami Wata is an early example of a Black art history digital project. The essay then examines newer examples of Black art history projects and how museums are presenting their…
Skillshare: Approach and Introduction to Python
[iframe src=”https://www.youtube.com/embed/smfueXrOHhY” width=”560″ height=”315″] The video above serves as a personable introduction to the coding language python which will be elaborated on below. This serves and a basic introduction to python, the coding language. Python is a great source tool for the someone not specifically code-literate to analyze data. It works especially well with many file formats which you…
Event Review: Open Access Symposium 2017 “Open In Order To…”
October 27, 2017 What is it? Stony Brook Open Access Symposium is an annual event to promote Stony Brook University’s Open Access materials, and publishing. It is also an opportunity to highlight the effort from the SUNY system- (State University of New York) to become more open friendly in the fields of specifically research and education tools. The…
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research February 14, Sarah DeMott, NYU Bobst Library
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Research workshop was organized as a part of New York City Digital Humanities week in February 2017. The workshop took place in NYU Bobst Library. In the workshop NUY Data Service specialist Sarah DeMott demonstrated how NCapture can be used for collecting data from different social media services, such as Twitter and Facebook, and how…
Social Media Scraping for Qualitative Data Analysis at NYCDH Week 2017
In her chapter in Digital Humanities in the Library: Challenges and Opportunities for Subject Specialists, Caro Pinto discusses the evolution of the traditional solitary work of humanities scholars to the collaborative nature of the majority of digital humanities projects. Pinto cites consortiums such as the Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative and Five Colleges DH as particularly successful examples of cross-institution…
Protected: A Small Place: A Literary Timeline of the West Indies
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Protected: Grant Proposal: Metal Music sub-genres Text Analysis Project
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Publishing Art History Digitally: The Present and the Future
In October, the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University brought together art historians, non-profit professionals and art publishers for a symposium not only on the new phenomena of publishing traditional art historical scholarship online, but on how it relates to publishing digital humanities in art history online. Organized by the online art journal, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide and funded…
Event review: Conference: Afterlives: Place, Memory, Story
CUNY Public history collective conference “Afterlives: place, memory, story” covered different presentations addressing restoring and re-purposing historical material and narratives. In general, it was discussed how to find new innovative ways to reach different audiences in the public history. Many of the presented projects utilized digital tools either in the analysis or for presenting the results of the research. The…