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Extracting editorials #3

By my own criteria I’ve already failed… I started this series of posts with the intention of documenting the process of finding and extracting editorials as I was actually doing the work. But here I am about to describe some work I finished a few weeks back. Oh well… In my previous instalments (here and [...]

Posted 20 February 2012 † Tim Sherratt § digital humanities § experiments ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Extracting editorials #2

As I explained in the first of this series, I’m documenting my efforts to extract every editorial published in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1913 from the Trove newspaper database. It’s an experiment both in text mining and historical writing — an attempt to put the method up front. While I didn’t think there was anything [...]

Posted 19 December 2011 † Tim Sherratt § digital humanities § experiments § hacks ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: ,

Extracting editorials #1

In their chapter in Writing History in the Digital Age, Trevor Owens and Fred Gibbs encourage historians to write about the ways they work with data — to document their methods, their working assumptions, their dead ends and their discoveries. It’s an important argument and one that makes me wonder again about forms of publication [...]

Posted 21 November 2011 † Tim Sherratt § digital humanities ‡ Comments (6) ° Also tagged: , ,