Just found out that a course in DH is now required on my campus for all students doing teacher education.
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Just found out that a course in DH is now required on my campus for all students doing teacher education.
I'm excited to hear about this project. Congrats! I'm hoping your findings will help us push back beyond the 19th century.
It's been a labour of love, and I hope it finds a home in the DH toolset.
Extensive documentation, including a user guide, API docs, and Jupyter notebook tutorials. Lexos is built on the backs of many open source projects, and I hope that I have made them more accessible to users with less technical expertise but adaptable by those with more.
Rolling windows frequency analysis, keyword-generating tools, and keywords in context. For topic modelling, includes a simple Python interface for calling MALLET and an easy-to-produce, re-engineered version of Andrew Goldstone's dfr-browser.
Features are include a rich set of tools for pre-processing textual data, as as well as working with spaCy docs, manipulating HTML and XML tags, chunking data, and visualising doc-term matrices. Clustering tools, including k-means, hierarchical clustering, and bootstrap consensus.
The landscape is very different from when I began the project, but I'm hoping that people will find it useful. Please pass the word and try it out! The docs are at scottkleinman.github.io/lexos/.
The beta release of the Lexos text analysis library is now available at github.com/scottkleinma.... It reproduces and extends the Lexos web app as a Python library in a way that is approachable for students and Humanities researchers, and useful for developers producing their own apps.
Marie de France thought the following statement fitting (if she wasn’t being sarcastic): "You couldn’t command anything in my power that I would not do, whether it turned to folly or wisdom. I will perform your commands; for you, I will abandon all folk" (Lanval, 124-128).
Big congrats to these 23 projects that just won awards from the @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program! Please spread the word. (NB I've been helping the HAVI team on this program. This is a broad slate of terrific DH projects!) www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2025-an...
One question I have is whether you can have more than one human in the loop. In my own experiment with vibe coding for DFR Browser 2, I open sourced the project on GitHub. But I wonder if potential collaborators will make pull requests for a (largely) AI-generated code base.
If anyone is still doing topic modelling, I'd love some user feedback (thanks to @alanyliu.bsky.social for some initial suggestions). This was a fascinating example of how we can quickly adapt and update existing open-source tools. I hope to develop it further.
Like many DH colleagues, I've been testing the vibe coding waters. As a case study, I ended up re-engineering Andrew Goldstone's dfr-browser for exploring topic models. github.com/scottkleinma... It has a bright new look, a lot of new features, and it's hopefully easier to use. +
Are you going to continue to develop the app, or is it functionally complete? I'm curious as a user, but I think this question is important for these types of quickly spun up tools, as you hinted in your earlier post.
Hearing Big Country on the radio in my current student union and experiencing big nostalgia remembering seeing them in concert in my then student union in the 1980s...
Looking forward to seeing where this goes!
*sigh* It's too soon, but on the day of his retirement from public service, I think that it's important to recognize the contributions of Brett Bobley to the work of the National Endowment for the Humanities and the field. #ThanksBrett for your leadership, your good cheer & your home-baked goods.
The evisceration of pre-modern scholarly communities continues apace. Just FYI: history only goes back about 250 years.
Interesting. I'm currently working on the MALLET interface for Lexos and have been using Claude 3.5 to help with test functions (with limited success). But the lesson here is that we need to start thinking about AI as a (the?) potential user when we design our software...
It's sounded like armageddon here since late last night.
Grateful to have this wonderful community of folks to commiserate and strategize with, especially given how each of us is in a resource scarce environment #DayofDH2024
My #DayOfDH2024 is mostly devoted to dealing with teaching and advising tasks put on hold for the Thanksgiving holiday. But I'm going to try to squeeze in some work on Lexos, including tasks suggested by my code reviewers at DHTech (dh-tech.github.io).
Also, the types of projects we can envision are different when a single course release (reducing us to three courses per semester) can blow nearly the entire grant budget. Even if we are guaranteed to get the grant, at some point it becomes not worth it.
Planning a #DigitalHumanities research software project and need help with technical planning?
Submit your project to DHReSCU (DH Research Software Consulting Unit) to be matched with a Humanities RSE consultant.
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Selected project teams will be paid $1500 for their time.
Fabulous news for #MedievalSky today: the British Library has brought 1000 digitized manuscripts (MSS) back online: blogs.bl.uk/digitisedman.... Congrats to all the BL staff who have made this recovery possible.
Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #559,044!
Not sure if it's quotable for your purposes, but Gwyneth Glyn's "Cofia fi at" is lovely.
We might need some brainstorming about success strategies for the CSU. Let's put it on the agenda for @dhatcsu.bsky.social.
With bonus images, posted my #dh2024 talk about Building the DH@CSU Consortium #DH
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Shout outs @briancroxall.bsky.social @lmrhody.bsky.social @humetricshss.bsky.social @dhatcsu.bsky.social @plach.bsky.social @skleinman.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social