Sep
Reading Naples '44 as a database
I recently read Norman Lewis's Naples '44, and it stayed with me more than most books do.
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2026
Aug
Five new ways to visualize Wittgenstein's Tractatus
I've spent a bit more time this year on Wittgensteiniana, my long-running side project that turns Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus into a set of experimental visualizations.
2019
Jun
Pypapers: a bare-bones, command-line PDF manager
Ever felt like software such as Mendeley or Papers are great, but somehow slow you down?
2018
Mar
Interesting read: 'SciSci' i.e. the science of science
Albert-László Barabási is a Romanian-born Hungarian-American physicist, best known for his work in the research of network theory.
2015
Sep
Another experiment with Wittgenstein's Tractatus
I spent some time hacking over the weekend, and here's the result: a minimalist interactive version of Wittgenstein's Tractatus.
Jun
Towards an ontology for philosophy
I enjoyed watching a recent presentation by Barry Smith about ontology engineering and in particular its application in the field of philosophy itself.
Jan
Take control of your digital annotations with ResQuotes.com
Over the last few weeks, I had a chance to complete a personal project I've been working on for a while: www.resquotes.com.
2013
Dec
Annotating the web with Scrible
Scrible is an online tool that allows one to add layers of annotations to webpages, save them in the cloud and share them with others.
Apr
Annual Bliss Classification Association Lecture: using faceted browsers in the DH
The Bliss Bibliographic Classification is a fully faceted classification scheme that provides detailed classification for use in libraries and information services of all kinds, with a broad and detailed structure and order.
2012
Sep
Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland... one step at a time
Navigating through the people of medieval Scotland...
Jul
Wittgenstein Tractatus and the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit
What do the JavaScript InfoVis Toolkit and the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein have in common?
Jun
Crowdsourcing interpretation with Prism, a new software from the Scholar's Lab
Prism is a new online tool by the Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia.
May
The role of Digital Humanities in a natural disaster
As part of the New Directions in the Digital Humanities series this week, we had a very inspiring presentation from Dr.
Mar
Conference: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archeology
Yesterday I went to the CAA 2012 conference in Southampton, one of the top conferences in the world in the field of computational archaeology.
Mar
The Future of the Book: reading and annotating online
In the last few weeks, I happened to run into a few online products that look at the future of the book—that is, at how reading (and the things we normally do when we read) will change now that the digital world is so pervasive and accessible.
2011
Nov
Towards a conceptual model for the domain of sculpture
For the next two years, I'll be collaborating with the Art of Making project.
Oct
Seminar: Tagore digital editions and Bengali textual computing
Professor Sukanta Chaudhuri gave a very interesting talk yesterday on the scope, methods, and aims of 'Bichitra' (literally, 'the various'), the ongoing project for an online variorum edition of the complete works of Rabindranath Tagore in English and Bengali.
Sep
Event: THATcamp Kansas and Digital Humanities Forum
THATcamp Kansas and the Digital Humanities Forum took place last week at the Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, which is part of the University of Kansas in beautiful Lawrence.
Jun
Event: Digital Humanities conference 2011
Last week I attended the Digital Humanities 2011 international conference at Stanford.
May
Hack4Europe! - Europeana hackathon roadshow, June 2011
Europeana is a multilingual digital collection containing more than 15 million resources that lets you explore Europe's history from ancient times to the modern day.
2010
Oct
Amazon's Kindle is slowly changing my life
I've been very reluctant to buy the Amazon Kindle at first, but since I got it I've realized more and more that that was the right decision, and I'll tell you why.
Sep
NoDictionaries.com :: innovative way to read latin classics
NoDictionaries is a web app that makes it very easy to look up the meaning of words while reading a latin text.
Aug
KR workshop #2: introducing CIDOC-CRM and FRBR-OO
This is the second appointment with the knowledge representation seminar we're having at CCH (Kings College, London).
2009
Oct
Visualizing Wittgenstein's Tractatus
Shameless self-plug: some time ago I made an alternative visualization of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus.
Aug
Social Reference Manager: Mendeley
A colleague mentioned the existence of Mendeley to me - a new and free reference manager.
Jul
If you're into humanities computing and NLP, you might want to check out the eAqua project.
Jul
The Roman Port Networks Project is a collaboration between 30 European partners, examining the connections between Roman ports across the Mediterranean.
Jun
WordSift [http://www.wordsift.com/] is a tool that was created primarily for teachers.
May
I really dig the concept - but after playing with it for a little I think that the whole thing is still too convoluted (lots of forms to fill in, popups etc.).
Jan
MusicBox: Mapping and visualizing music collections
MIT student Anita Lillies shows off her project Music Box:
2008
Mar
The British Wittgenstein Society gets started
The British Wittgenstein Society (BWS) is opening its doors (well online at least): it'll add up to the already existing Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ALWS), International German Ludwig Wittgenstein Society (ILWG) and North American Wittgenstein Society (NAWS).
Feb
A new version is now online - I reckon it will be one of the latest ones!
Feb
Humanities Computing and web2.0
Last week I spent two interesting days in London, at the Epistemic Networks and GRID Web 2.0 for Arts and Humanities workshop.
2007
Sep
Zotero - is the browser enough to do research?
Zotero, a personal research assistant, directly into your browser.
Sep
I have no time to write anymore! The phd is sucking me down..
Jun
30th International Wittgenstein Symposium
I am going to talk at the 30th International Wittgenstein Symposium, 5-11 August 2007, Kirchberg, Austria.
Jun
Discovery: philosophy in the digital Era
It looks like the semantic web rumor is spreading out fast, also in the philosophy circles:
Jun
It's nice to see the ancient philosophy keeping up with the new technologies - shows how the soul of philosophy is immortal, and linked to men instead of publication mechanisms.
Apr
Feb
NINES : SW faceted browser - by SpecLab
I tried it out last night, and the interface seems really rich and powerful.
Feb
Hi guys! A new philosophical search engine is available out there.
Jan
Turning the pages of literature
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.
Jan
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.
Jan
2006
Nov
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.
Nov
MultimediaN semantic navigator
Winner of the Semantic Web challenge 2006, the MultimediaN e-Culture demonstrator looks at
Oct
Since I've got to annotate and reorganize a large set of text data, I guess I will have to visualize them too at some point.
Oct
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a very nice venue, and its paintings even better.
Jul
A Random Walk through the 20th Century
I wanted to post something about this for a long time, but never got down to it.
Jun
Article Summary: Automatist storyteller systems and the shifting sands of story
A few notes after reading a seminal paper (1997) by MIT researcher Glorianna Davenport on 'storyteller systems'.
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