Crafting the Digital Humanities

This week’s lab explores some of the markup and semantic design that makes resource like the Old Bailey Online so useful for text mining by contrasting its technical approach with that of Artist’s Books Online. Artist’s Books Online Artist’s Books Online is a project to create digital repository of artist notebooks and other material directed by Johanna Drucker. The […]

Excavating Crime and Correspondance: A Data Dig Lab

This lab follows on from our experiments in text analysis and involves exploring two examples of using data mining in the digital humanities. Case 1 uses the Old Bailey Online as the source for a practical experiment. This experiment pulls together several topics we’ve already covered as we used the Old Bailey Online API to extract data […]