Broadside Love: A Comparison of Reading with Digital Tools versus Deep Knowledge in the Ballads of Samuel Pepys

This essay explores the ways in which one portion of the ballads, those having to do with Love Pleasant (a category Pepys created and which was the largest in his collection), deal with the notion of love as typified in cheap print. This comparative analysis is done through the use of digital tools and slow/deep reading. I explore what digital textual analysis brings to the table when dealing with a large, but pre-selected, dataset in which the elements should share many common elements; how false data can be identified and winnowed out if one is just beginning work on broadside ballads; and, finally, what is the best way to interleave digital tools with slow reading

Accessing 3D Data

The issue of access and discoverability is not simply a matter of permissions and availability. To identify, locate, retrieve, and reuse 3D materials requires consideration of a multiplicity of content types, as well as community and financial investment to resolve challenges related to usability, interoperability, sustainability, and equity. This chapter will cover modes, audiences, assets and decision points, technology requirements, and limitations impacting access, as well as providing recommendations for next steps

Digitally Charge Your Dissertation!

This presentation was part of the "Supercharge Your Disseration!" workshop given by the IUB Libraries. In it, graduate students were given five different digital entry points that could help add digital content to their scholarship

Using R for Text Analysis

R is a statistical package used by many digital textual analysts to explore aspects of styelometry. Here at IU, we have an instance of the popular Rstudio running on Karst to facilitate work on large corpora. However, it is often helpful to begin work with a small test set (sometimes even a single text) and scale up. The CyberDH group has put together code packages and annotated RNotebooks that are available on GitHub to serve as a friendly introduction to how the process of scaling up might work. This talk will step through the basics of these exercises and the visualizations that result

Scalar Tutorial

This tutorial introduces the platform Scalar, which can be used for multimedia, multipath online publishing. It also comes with built-in visualizations

Studying Word Usage in Shakespeare with R

This brief how-to is an excerpt from a larger unit on R and its uses in the study of literature that I am constructing for a course on Digital Humanities to be taught in the Information and Library Science School at Indiana University next fall. We will be drawing heavily from Matt Jockers' Text Analysis with R for Students of Literature, a straightforward, well-written text I have found to be invaluable. However, for the purposes of this workshop, I will simply be showing you some code and the results of some tests we have run. In the course itself, students will be guided through some of the exercises in Jockersâ s book and then work on the code themselves. As this is all at a preliminary stage, what you will be learning about is one aspect of stylometry: word frequency counts and their relationship to overall meaning by looking at Zipf's Law.Shakespeare Association of America, Vancouver, Canad