Abstract Digital iterations of African literary texts present scholarly opportunities to interrogate how literature produced and circulated on digital media becomes entangled with the capitalist politics datafication. In data paradigm described in article, representations are subject workings neoliberal capital constraints algorithmic systems. Through a postcolonial approach that puts humanitie...

In their article "A Survey of Electronic Literature Collections" Luis Pablo and María Goicoechea describe characteristics and functions of collections of electronic literature and analyze descriptors used and the way information can be accessed. Based on their observations, Pablo and Goicoechea advocate a database structure which is flexible and can produce a dynamic archiving model as texts ar...

All media provide media specific methods of access to information and therefore media change affects also these methods of access. But the change of media and hence access methods also raises the question of legitimacy of doing this, in terms of scholarly working as well as in terms of justification in the face of the funding general public financing research either directly by the government o...

Students at universities and colleges in Belgium as well as abroad often experience difficulties with writing (academic) texts in their native language. Several needs analyses have pointed out that the most frequent writing problems in Dutch are text structure and cohesion, academic style and, to a lesser extent, spelling. Despite many interventions such as extra writing classes or workshops, t...

The purpose of this poster is to highlight cross-domain metadata uses, metadata mapping, and success measures at the Ryerson University Library and Archives. The Library is highly involved in Ryerson-based proposals for interdisciplinary projects, especially in the Digital Humanities. Designing an online environment for the preservation and analysis of illustrated texts for children and Canadia...

THISARTICIX INVESlIGATES THE PERCEPTION that humanists are less than enamored with technology when compared to their peers in other disciplines. Using focus group interviews with humanities faculty at an east coast university, the article examines and analyzes their access to technolqgy, their technological skill and interest, their concerns about digitized texts and art works, their views on t...

The paper presents a methodology for development of tools for semantics oriented search in repositories of digitized manuscripts. This methodology is based on the application of some Semantic Web technologies to existing manuscript collections that may include: electronic catalogue containing marked-up manuscript descriptions, full texts of manuscripts, digital images of manuscript pages. It is...

Progress made in recent years has led to a growing interest in Digital Heritage. This article focuses on Egyptology and, more specifically, the study and preservation of ancient Egyptian scripts. We present a Text Retrieval system developed specifically to work with hieroglyphic texts. We intend to make it freely available to the research community. To the best of our knowledge this is the firs...

This paper presents the “Magic Table”: an augmented whiteboard surface for supporting creative meetings. The Magic Table uses computer vision for scanning and spatially organizing texts and drawings on the surface. Digitization of the physical ink is done by a-posteriori capture of the strokes. The digital information is organized through the manipulation of tokens (small plastic disks). The in...

During the process of citation matching links from bibliography entries to referenced publications are created. Such links are indicators of topical similarity between linked texts, are used in assessing the impact of the referenced document and improve navigation in the user interfaces of digital libraries. In this paper we present a citation matching method and show how to scale it up to hand...