Category Archives: Research Methods

PhilPapers: Supporting Volunteer Initiatives for the Long Term

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Abby Scheel

Last week PhilPapers, “a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers,” sent letters to academic librarians asking for financial support to sustain their work. As a recipient of such a letter, I would like to … Continue reading →

Categories: Crowdsourcing, Funding, Libraries, Metadata, Open Access, Project Management, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Session: Talk | 1 Comment

Undergraduate Students and Digital Humanities

Posted on April 15, 2014 by Catelyn Cantrell

When I began my own research project as a second-year undergraduate, I set out to map the world of Dante’s Commedia through the use of GIS software. However, I eventually left that project behind and pivoted into a more traditional … Continue reading →

Categories: Mapping, Project Management, Research Methods, Session Proposals, Session: Talk, Teaching | 3 Comments

Humanities Software Development: Data Mining and Writing Studies

Posted on April 2, 2014 by Aaron Beveridge

We will provide a short introduction to the software project called MassMine–an open source software, developed by academic/humanities researchers, for use within the academy. The software has been used to data mine Twitter and this data is being analyzed as … Continue reading →

Categories: Coding, Data Mining, General, Research Methods, Session: Make, Social Media | 4 Comments