Guides: Digital Scholarship: Workshop Materials

Digital Exhibits Workshop Materials

Digital Collections

Digital Exhibit Projects

Sample Images

Web-Based Tools

Google Books Ngram Viewer
About: Chart the frequency of use of a word or phrase over time. Data is drawn from the collection of books in GoogleBooks.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application.
See also: The Pitfalls of Using Google Ngram to Study Language, WIRED
Voyant
About: Voyant Tools is a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts.
Access: Free
Application type: Web application.
Sample corpus: Austen
Sample corpus: Shakespeare
Sample Corpus: Barack Obama Inaugural Addresses and State of the Union Addresses
List of Tools
Word Tree
About: Focus on a specific word or phrase in a piece of text to see what words immediately follow or precede that word or phrase.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application.
JSTOR Text Analyzer
About: Upload a document to find related articles and topics.
Access: Available through Gordon Library's JSTOR subscription.
Application type: Web application.
Lexos
About: Clean your text, cut text into various size chunks, manage chunks and chunk sets, and choose from a suite of tools for analyzing text.
Access: Free.
Application type: Web application

Examples of Text

Presidential Speeches
Miller Center, UVA
Annual Messages to Congress on the State of the Union (Washington 1790 - Trump 2019)
The American Presidency Project, UC Santa Barbara
Open Source Shakespeare
Includes the 1864 Globe Edition of the complete works of William Shakespeare
Example: Macbeth
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg offers over 58,000 free eBooks.
Example: A Christmas Carol
Biodiversity Heritage Library
The Biodiversity Heritage Library improves research methodology by collaboratively making biodiversity literature openly available to the world as part of a global biodiversity community.
Collection Example: A History of Cats: 1858-1922
National Archives
Ex. The Constitution of the United States

Project Examples

Mining the Dispatch
About: Explores the contents of the Richmond Daily Dispatch during the Civil War using topic modeling.
Tool: MALLET
Distant Reading Duffy
About: Sample text analysis assignment from an Introduction to Digital Humanities class at Emory University
Tool: Voyant Tools
Visualizing Early American Captivity - Mapping and Graphing Narratives Published Between 1682-1800 (IQP)
About: This IQP uses data visualization, text analysis, and mapping to interpret American captivity narratives.
Tools: Neatline/Omeka, Voyant
Using Voyant Tools in the Undergraduate Research Classroom
About: Analyzing text from a 17th century recipe book.
Tool: Voyant

PowerPoint

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