Comments on: DH Beyond Plain Text http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/ The Humanities and Technology Camp Thu, 24 May 2012 00:58:51 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.12 By: cforster http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-405 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 18:36:39 +0000 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1005#comment-405 Just popped up via twitter, not irrelevant:
lab.softwarestudies.com/2012/04/software-studies-initiative-awarded.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

]]> By: PC Fleming http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-363 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 11:53:06 +0000 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1005#comment-363 I’ve always wondered how TV networks handle these issues: how do they locate relevant clips, sometimes from years ago, sometimes just lots of uses of a particular phrase (I’m thinking of Daily Show montages). Surely these aren’t all tagged or transcribed? Do they use tools we don’t know about? Anything we could appropriate for academic uses?

]]> By: cforster http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-337 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 18:17:52 +0000 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1005#comment-337 What a well-crafted and thoughtful proposal. I would love to hear folks’s thoughts on this b/c (with perhaps the exception of the tools Manovich is using) I’m completely unaware of the sorts of things one could do using other types of media.

The challenges seem to present themselves immediately. A concept like “word” (incoherent as it may itself already be) has a clearly (well…) extractable representation in plaintext for manipulation (white-space or punctuation delimited, with contractions representing… an unpleasantness); but even separating words within some sort of audio format (another problem: so many competing binary formats) is very nontrivial.

Are there ways to just end-run around this problem? ImageMagick to merge images files (of page images) is something I’ve tinkered with, without having to worry about conceptualizing the binary data in way.

In any case, I’d love to have my horizons expanded. Great idea.

]]> By: Eric Rettberg http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/04/09/dh-beyond-plain-text/#comment-317 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 20:18:42 +0000 http://virginia2012.thatcamp.org/?p=1005#comment-317 Another question for the session, just tweeted by Lev @manovich: “If 2010s web was dominated by search, what will be the paradigm of 2010s? you cant’ search 7 billion photos uploaded on FB every month.”

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