July 2018

Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History

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Moretti, Franco (2007). Graphs, Maps, Trees: Abstract Models for Literary History. New York: Verso. The “great iconoclast of literary criticism” reinvents the study of the novel. In this groundbreaking book, Franco Moretti argues that literature scholars should stop reading books and start counting, graphing, and mapping them instead. In place of the traditionally selective literary […]

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Roshan Initiative for Persian Digital Humanities

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About The Roshan Institute for Persian Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park has embarked on an ambitious Persian Digital Humanities initiative, the Roshan Initiative in Persian Digital Humanities at the University of Maryland (PersDig@UMD). It is a collaborative effort involving Roshan Institute for Persian Studies, Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities (MITH), and UMD

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Spatial Humanities

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Spatial Humanities 2016 Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK – ۱۵-۱۶th Sept 2016 Programme (Source, pdf) This major European conference is concerned with the use of Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and other spatial technologies in humanities research. The main aim of the conference is to explore and demonstrate the contributions to knowledge that these technologies enable within and beyond the

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Technical Notes (prospect – v1.8.8)

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Non-DIL Code files in /lib CSV Importer 0.4.2 (PHP) from https://github.com/academe/csv-importer-improved/releases Leaflet 1.0.4 (JS) D3 v4.8.0 (JS) VueJS 2.3.0 (JS) RainbowVis-JS (JS) RandomColor (JS) Hopscotch 0.2.5 (JS) Unresolved Technical Issues / Unfinished Elements Proper and full treatment of UTF-8 strings in JavaScript, esp. sorting in PData.strcmp() Add CORS header to Exhibit & Volume HTML to

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Prospect – Sample Projects

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Importing a Sample Project Sample Projects Tutorial Projects Created as examples for how to design data schema and configure Exhibits, with sample files to upload into your Prospect website and explanations of the data design and configuration: Biographical Collection (US Presidents) Event Analysis (US Mass Shootings) Social Networks (Romeo and Juliet) More forthcoming “Real” Projects

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