History Meets High-Tech: Digital Humanities
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-01-11/history-meets-high-tech-digital-humanities
Move over, computer science nerds. Academic researchers in history and literature are increasingly adopting the techniques of the hard sciences to glean new insights into their research. It's a field known as "digital humanities," and some say it could transform the way scholars do their jobs. Tech Tuesday explores the possibilities of this new type of scholarship.
Guests
Brett Bobley
Director of the Office of Digital Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities
Dan Cohen
Associate Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University and the Director of the Center for History and New Media
Bill Ferster
Director, VisualEyes, University of Virginia
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Very informative radio program. I'm a current Social Sciences/Humaities undergrad at GMU & have utilized Zotero for research compilation of sources. Fantastic tool for source compilation (computer term :p )
Google Books just put up an NGram Viewer. It is a good look at word counts. Here are some links:
http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2010/12/find-out-whats-in-word-or-five-wi...
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/notrocketscience/2010/12/16/the-cultur...
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/12/web-semantics-google-book...
Sorry I didn't have but a few moments to chat on your show today.
Here are some great links for free public domain literature besides the ones mentioned on the show, and the obvious ones such as gutenberg.org, and Google Books. I have used these sources often in digging out 19th century authors for Mister Ron's Basement. These are all FREE resources for the general public:
Wright American Fiction (1851-1875) (a fabulous collection, organized by author):
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=wright2;cc=wright2;si...
VOICES FROM 19TH-CENTURY AMERICA (adult and childrens' literature):
http://www.merrycoz.org/
UVA Digital Collections:
http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/
Old Fulton NY Post Cards (an amazing collection of indexed 19th Century New York State newspapers):
http://fultonhistory.com/Fulton.html
The Brooklyn Eagle (1841-1902, partially indexed at this time):
http://eagle.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/Default/Skins/BEagle/Client.asp?S...
Cornell University "Making of America" Collection (simply astounding resource):
http://dlxs2.library.cornell.edu/m/moa/browse.html
The Online Archive of Nineteenth-Century U.S. Women's Writings:
http://www.facstaff.bucknell.edu/gcarr/19cUSWW/
Unfortunately, the GALE collection of 19th Century US and British newspapers is currently only available to members of participating Institutions. They essentially control access to a huge assortment of Public Domain work, and control access to it as if it was still copyrighted and they controlled the copyright.