Comments on: Google and Digital Humanities http://osu2012.thatcamp.org/02/22/google-and-digital-humanities/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Sun, 29 Apr 2012 12:49:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: Amy Picknell http://osu2012.thatcamp.org/02/22/google-and-digital-humanities/#comment-706 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 11:40:50 +0000 http://osu2012.thatcamp.org/?p=120#comment-706 I would like to throw in the ring Google Art Project, an online archive not only of images but of museums as well, and an invaluable source that displays digital’s ability to continue to develop waining school interests like visual literacy, an irony that should not go unnoticed in our overly-visual world but does due to the lack of funding for visual culture programs. Like most Web 2.0, there is the prosumer aspect of being able to curate your own galleries and share them with others. If anyone were interested, I would be willing to lead a GAP brief workshop (maybe in relation to other Google products?) seeing as the project is only 13+ months old and seeks to do what other archives like the Blake or Rossetti archive have attempted, but with Google resources on hand.

]]> By: ulman.1 http://osu2012.thatcamp.org/02/22/google-and-digital-humanities/#comment-33 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 15:38:22 +0000 http://osu2012.thatcamp.org/?p=120#comment-33 My students and I used Google’s Ngram Viewer to illustrate the strength of orthographic conventions. Editing a mid-nineteenth-century American manuscript, we often encountered spellings that were attested in the OED for earlier centuries. We encoded those spellings as archaic orthography along with conventional nineteenth-century spellings, then employed an XSL stylesheet to create searches of Google’s Ngram Viewer that would allow us to visualize the relative frequency of the conventional and unconventional spellings. Here’s an example:

ruff (rough): First appears in entry for 1852-02-09 — “This morning when I arose I found the weather quite good and quite smooth so I sat down and went to work on some fancy work but did not remain so long before the wind came ahead and made it very ruff yesterday I was seasick and unable to write.”

View unconventional spelling in Google Books Ngram Viewer
-> Compare unconventional and conventional spellings in Ngram Viewer

]]>