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Teaching and learning in digital research Finnish Cultural Institute visit 16 May 2014 Dr James Baker Curator, Digital Research @j_w_baker
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Slides created for a session on 'Teaching and learning in digital research' as part of the Finnish Cultural Institute visit to the British Library, 16 May 2014.
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Teaching and learning in digital researchFinnish Cultural Institute visit 16 May 2014
Dr James BakerCurator, Digital Research
@j_w_baker
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‘Literary scholars and historians have in the past been limited in their analyses of print culture by the constraints of physical archives and human
capacity. A lone scholar cannot read, much less make sense of, millions of newspaper pages. With the aid of computational linguistics tools and digitized corpora, however, we are working toward a large-scale, systemic understanding of how texts were valued and transmitted during this period’
David A. Smith, Ryan Cordell, and Elizabeth Maddock Dillon, ‘Infectious Texts: Modeling Text Reuse in Nineteenth-Century Newspapers’ (2013)
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‘Early users of medieval books of hours and prayer books left signs of their reading in the form of fingerprints
in the margins. The darkness of their fingerprints correlates to the intensity of their use and handling. A densitometer -- a machine that measures the darkness of a reflecting surface -- can reveal which texts a reader favored.’
Kathryn M. Rudy, ‘Dirty Books: Quantifying Patterns of Use in Medieval Manuscripts Using a Densitometer’, Journal of Historians of Nederlandish Art (2010)
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Virtual St Paul’s Cross Project
Notes from talk at Institute of Historical Research, 18 February 2014.
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Prototype Project Task
– Groups of 5 or 6.– Use the cards to come up with a potential project idea:
• You have a combination of tool cards and collection cards (note: you all
have different card combinations).• These cards represent hypothetical tools for digital research and
hypothetical digital collections (though in both cases they resemble real things).• Consider potential and pitfalls at a high level.
– Feedback• 2 minutes per group.
“What counts is not the machine but the problem. The machine is only interesting insofar as it allows one to tackle new questions, content and especially scale”
Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie (1973)
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Thank you!@[email protected]://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/digital-scholarship/
Slides: http://slidesha.re/1gH5zcT
