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Making Fun of George Augustus Frederick
Last February I attended and spoke at a conference organised and funded by the VolkswagenStiftung. The conference was hosted at the splendid Herrenhausen Palace in Hanover and it examined caricature...
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Metadata for all the British Museum Satires: part five
In my previous post I mentioned that the first thing I’d do as I embarked on research using metadata for satirical prints catalogued by the British Museum would be to try to distinguish whether the...
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Digital History and being afraid of being insufficiently digital
This blog is cross-posted from the Institute of Historical Research Digital History seminar blog The A Big Data History of Music project uses metadata about sheet music publication to explore music...
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Code, control, and the Humanities
The case often made for humanists (and indeed librarians, archivists, et al) to learn some code is that with programming comes control. That is, control to do what is possible within the bounds of...
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Positivist(ish) Digital History
Judging from the Q&As at #BeyondMining, whether a term’s use & meaning is stable throughout time seems the biggest challenge for #dhist — Max Kemman (@MaxKemman) September 15, 2015 Early this...
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Inside Sussex Humanities Lab
So it has been a month since I joined the University of Sussex and the question I keep getting asked is ‘what is the Sussex Humanities Lab?’ And I don’t think I’ve all that useful in helping people...
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Objects from The Information Age
With research and teaching plans tumbling around my head, I visited the Science Museum yesterday to pick through the Information Age Gallery in the company of Oliver Carpenter, Curator of...
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The Odd Fellow?: reflections on a Software Sustainability Institute Fellowship
A wonderful few days in Edinburgh at the 2016 Software Sustainability Institute Collaboration Workshop marked the end of my 2015 fellowship with the Software Sustainability Institute. This seems then a...
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Interfaces between us and our digital sources
The extraction of these data from the archive is beset with problems that will be familiar to anyone who has explored ECCO. As is now well known, the optical character recognition (OCR) software used...
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Printed images and computational image recognition
This weekend I bought a print at my local antiques and vintage market. It is a George Cruikshank satire, etched in 1849 that was published as part of The Comic Almanack 1850. It is called As it Ought...
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OCRing history in the cloud: first impressions, next steps
Last week I decided to try Optical Character Recognition (OCR) for the first time. The context was the publication of a dataset as a book.. To recap some lovely chats: nothing wrong here, I just hope...
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The soft digital history that underpins my book
A book I wrote was recently published. It is on making and selling of satirical prints in Britain – mostly London – during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It has been on my mind,...
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The hard digital history that underpins my book
In my last blog I wrote about the ‘soft’ Digital History – or digital/’digital’/Digital [hH]istory – that went into my recent book on making and selling of satirical prints in Britain during the late...
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The Background At Sussex we (and it is very much we, with Sharon Webb my main co-conspirator) run a program of weekly sessions across Year 1 of our History BA on ‘digital skills’. These start off very...
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