blog Reading Naples '44 as a database
Sep 2026
I recently read Norman Lewis's Naples '44, and it stayed with me more than most books do.
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2015
blog Another experiment with Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Sep 2015
I spent some time hacking over the weekend, and here's the result: a minimalist interactive version of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
2012
blog Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland... one step at a time
Sep 2012
Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland... one step at a time! This is, in a nutshell, what users can do via the Dynamic Connections Cloud application, a prototype tool I've been working on recently, in the context of the People of Medieval Scotland project (PoMS), which was launched last week at the University of Glasgow.
blog The role of Digital Humanities in a natural disaster
May 2012
As part of the New Directions in the Digital Humanities series this week, we had a very inspiring presentation from Dr. Paul Millar, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of English, Cinema and Digital Humanities at the University of Canterbury (NZ). The talk focused on the CEISMIC project, with which Millar and his team intended to 'crowdsource' a digital resource to preserve the record of the earthquakes' impacts, document the long-term process of recovery, and discover virtual solutions to issues of profound heritage loss. (P.S. This entry was cross-posted on the DhWip blog.)
2009
Jun 2009
WordSift [http://www.wordsift.com/] is a tool that was created primarily for teachers. Mainly, think of it playfully - as a toy in a linguistic playground that is available to instantly capture and display the vocabulary structure of texts, and to help **create an opportunity to talk and play with language.
2008
blog Humanities Computing and web2.0
Feb 2008
Last week I spent two interesting days in London, at the Epistemic Networks and GRID Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities workshop. I went there representing PhiloSURFical and Cohere, but unfortunately due to technical reasons the fliers I've prepared to let this community know about our work were not handed out on time. The printers at Imperial College didnt want to work for me :-). Too bad.. I managed anyway to spread the word a bit, and the reactions have been very very positive.
2007
blog HyperNietzsche
Apr 2007
blog Indiana Philosophy Ontology Project
Apr 2007
blog Digital Document Quarterly
Mar 2007
It's an interesting web-journal written by Henry Gladney, which deals with various subjects from document digitalization, encoding, semantics and in general the revolution linked to the digital world.
blog Navigating the Eternal Egypt
Mar 2007
A really nice application to browse conceptually related egyptian artifacts, with many features: visual navigation, possibility of creating personal "libraries" of artifacts, typed entities. The Eternal Egypt. Even if the links to the semantic web could be many, I have not found anything mentioning a possible openness of the data....what a shame!
blog Turning the pages of literature
Jan 2007
It's a new service offered by the British Library, consisting on a Shockwave app that lets you flick through the scanned pages of various authors' works. Not particularly exciting from the technology point of view, but quite amazing if you think that you're looking at William Blake's notebook, directly from your home computer...
blog The Internet Classics Archive
Jan 2007
The works in the Internet Classics Archive come from two major sources, an archive of unformatted electronic texts from the Eris Project at Virginia Tech and the Perseus Project from Tufts University. Additional works come from Project Gutenberg and other Internet sites, including James Fieser's Philosophy Text Collection, part of the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy from the University of Tenessee, Martin. The Deeds of the Divine Augustus was provided by Thomas Bushnell, BSG. Except in the case of the works from the Perseus Project, which are provided only as links to that site, all works were processed and reformatted for the archive and are provided directly from this site.
blog Text Encoding Initiative - a historical paper
Jan 2007
2006
blog The Nora Project
Nov 2006
The Nora Project aims at putting together a big pool of digital texts in the humanities in order to develop and test data mining techniques specific to this domain. Various collaborations with other institutions have provided them already a testbed of about 10,000 literary texts in English, from the 19th century, or about 5 GB of marked-up text.
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