Journal Articles (Digital Humanities)

2014

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Chartier, Ryan, Simpson, John, Dyrbye, Amy

What can we learn from the discourse around text tools? More than might be expected. The development of text analysis tools has been a feature of computing in the humanities since IBM supported Father Busa's production of the Index Thomisticus (Tasman 1957). Despite the importance of tools in the...

2015-05-29

Sonja C. Sapach

This paper describes the method of complete participant observation-style virtual ethnography and how it was used to study sacred objects and rituals in the virtual world of Azeroth, from the massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft (WoW). Drawing heavily from...

2012

Welsh, Anne, Nyhan, Julianne, Salmon, Jessica, Rockwell, Geoffrey

This extended interview with Geoffrey Rockwell was carried out via Skype on the 28th April 2012. He narrates that he had been aware of computing developments when growing up in Italy but it was in college in the late 1970s that he took formal training in computing. He bought his first computer,...

2010

Ruecker, Stan, Rockwell, Geoffrey, Organisciak, Peter, Sinclair, Stéfan

How can digital content be connected to text analysis tools? The TAPoR (Text Analysis Portal for Research) provided a workbench model, but usability studies suggest that a workbench was not how humanists thought of doing their research - humanists start with the text and apply tools as lenses for...

2012

Rockwell, Geoffrey, Chernyavska, Maryna, Kononenko, Natalie, Sellmer, Megan, Anvik, Karl

How can crowdsourcing be used in the humanities? This paper describes a crowdsourcing project at the University of Alberta that developed a tool for participants to sign out audio clips for transcribing and translating from Ukrainian. The audio clips were from fieldwork on Ukrainian folklore and...

2019-01-01

Joseph, Kris

Shifting library catalogs from physical to digital has come at a cost. Catalog records no longer leave traces of their own evolution, which is a loss for librarianship. The subjective nature of information classification warrants self-examination, within which we may see the evolution of...