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So, every morning when I get up, I see the copy of the book I'm currently reviewing, and I berate myself for not finishing the thing! I've gotten about 1/4 of the way through, and I've looked over sample reviews from Restoration, but I'm struggling with completion. The book is a collection of essays of …
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WordNet [Fellbaum, 1998] is a heavily-used lexical resource in natural-language processing and information retrieval. More recently, it has also been adopted in Semantic Web research community. It is used mainly for annotation and retrieval in different domains such as cultural heritage [Hollink et al., 2003], product catalogs [Guarino et al., 1999] and photo metadata [Brickley, …
Today, it is increasingly difficult for scholars to do historical, primary source research without institutional access to fulltext databases like Early English Books Online, Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, and the 17th and 18th Century Newspaper Collections, among others. These resources are often prohibitively expensive for smaller colleges and universities, and travel funding for archival research is …
Just returned from this year's THATCamp at CHNM, and I have to say--wow. I'm exhausted but oddly energized, as are most other campers (if the twitter stream is to be believed!). For those who've never been to a THATCamp, you will find Alexandra Cartert's excellent post on her experience enlightening. I, too, arrived early for …
May 19, 2011 by thowe Teacher-scholars unite! I’ve been testing some possible applications of Omeka archives and Zotero as collaborative tools organizing the development of literary research methodologies classes, and I’d like to take the wonderful opportunity of THATcamp to begin developing the structure and content of project I see as The Next Step. I’d …
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I think I've finally convinced myself that the term is over! Now, I can begin considering my summer projects, since I've had a nice couple of weeks to myself. A colleague has started "Academics Anonymous," an interdisciplinary workshop the goal of which is to keep us on track and give us all a few more …
It was great to be back in Fredericksburg for the 2011 Faculty Academy! I was only able to attend one day of the two-day conference, and though I missed Michael Wesch's keynote, I did hear Amanda French's plenary on the The Ivy and the Kudzu, or, the Lush Perils of Openness in Academe--a wonderful model …
via THATCamp CHNM 2009 » Blog Archive. For the past year or so, I’ve been interested in putting together a small team of like-minded folks to help bring to fruition a data visualization project that could benefit less-prepared college students, teachers in the humanities, and researchers alike. Often, underprepared or at-risk educational populations struggle to …
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Tonya Howe 