Digital Humanities

Our digital + humanities e-symposium takes place in a fortnight. If you are keen to attend, you can register at the following EventBrite page: eventbrite.com/e/digital-huma… @RHendery @UjjwalJ80275694 @DHAfricaNetwork @dh_dharti #DH

The CFP closes soon for our digital + humanities e-symposium. Scholars from across the Indian Rim (Africa, Asia, Australasia) are especially encouraged to propose a talk. CFP: drive.google.com/open?id=19bMfv…

Calling all scholars in the Indian Rim. event: digital + humanities e-symposium date: October 29/30 time: morning Africa / midday India / evening Oz cfp: bit.ly/3i8sFPN | registration: forms.gle/qea7LV72CAPb42… @RHendery @UjjwalJ80275694 @DHAfricaNetwork @dh_dharti

So happy to have my DH communities converge at #DH2019 @StanfordCIDR @turinginst @LivingwMachines @DH_Western people all played a role in the #DHWOGEM poster!

Missed this a few years ago. Has anyone come across any creative applications of #WaveNet? deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-g… @DeepMindAI #AI #DeepLearning

We are excited to announce Mauricio Giraldo (@mgiraldo) has won our $30,000 #DXLab Fellowship for his innovative project aimed at transforming how we access and discover items in the Library’s online catalogue. Congratulations! 🎉 Read more: dxlab.sl.nsw.gov.au/blog/winner-dx…

Underwater #AR. This is pretty cool. euronews.com/2018/09/17/vir… #DH #digitalheritage

People are loving the close-up action with our early county town and parish maps! The map pictured on the right is of #Kiama, proclaimed 11 August 1859. #slnswmaps

Hopefully this treasured analogue heritage can be digitised for future generations. abc.net.au/news/2019-06-1… #Digitalisierung #heritage #ourabc @abcnews @naagovau

The language barrier in Eighteenth-Century Europe: the French-speaking Swiss publishers preferred to source their paper from Lyon and Basançon than from German-speaking Basel, which was close by and a major paper market. #DHRGSeminar

Interestingly, the #STN cultivated papetiers in the middle distance before writing to those closer by. #DHRGSeminar

There was a flow of paper from a tight-knit local network of paper suppliers to the STN’s broad network of customers across Europe. #DHRGSeminar

After trying to assess the #STN’s paper requirements, the team moved an to another question: how did the publisher secure supply? How did its supply vary over time? #DHRGSeminar

Incidentally, all the #STN data is available from fbtee.uws.edu.au/stn/interface/ #DHRGSeminar

Two lessons from the #STN data: (1) paper requirements could vary wildly year-on-year in the publishing industry; (2) one big bestseller could consume an enormous proportion of a publisher’s paper, up to 80%. #DHRGSeminar

A problem: how to build an estimate from a set of incomplete datasets, each of which is constructed on different bases? Humanities data provides a “fuzzy snapshot” of reality. #DHRGSeminar

Data sources for a bibliometric approach to the paper trade: business ledgers, book catalogues, letters between publishers and suppliers. #DHRGSeminar

Millions of sheets were required for the C18th book industry. It was the biggest cost. 300-700 million sheets were required annually, and our publisher required about 3 million sheets. A significant sample for a statistical analysis of the book trade. #DHRGSeminar

Paper was a medium of ideas, an instrument of reform, a motor of history. #DHRGSeminar