This paper introduces Spyral Notebooks, a notebook environment that extends Voyant Tools and offers a space for both notating and presenting analysis and for developing JavaScript code that extends Voyant. In the paper we present the design justifications for Spyral, showcase some of the analytical possibilities of Spyral, and address recent…[Read more]

In this presentation we discuss one approach to studying historical change in a large document archive, The Old Bailey Proceedings Online. In addition to the texts themselves, we are working with two kinds of representation. The first is a set of XML tags that were added to the trial accounts when the digital archive was created. Since these tags…[Read more]

As Mika Wusterland demonstrates, popular discourses around deepfakes are primarily concerned with the ability to create a historical event that can pass as “real” (39). Yet, as Vivian Sobchak argues, “the ‘events’ of the twentieth century are less inherently novel than the novel technologies of representations that have transformed ‘events’”…[Read more]

In this presentation, we will elaborate on the insights that have gathered from our partnership with Iter Canada towards establishing a robust ecosystem for the long-term preservation of collaborative projects in the arts and humanities. As a work in progress, planning to address the current gap in preservation research affecting a specific…[Read more]

Building on foundational research about the historical and intellectual roots of the digital research commons (Winter et al. 2020), this paper examines the Canadian HSS Commons from a DH perspective, focusing on how it will meet the needs of Canadian researchers working within the highly collaborative, methodologically diverse, and exploratory…[Read more]

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This paper investigates the relationship between quantified sentiments of award-winning novels and economic short and long-run sentiments. In an era where the value of literature is increasingly questioned in favor of quantifiable data, we use quantitative methods to…[Read more]

This paper summarizes ongoing work on a project to create a database of digital images of historic bridges, each with extensive accompanying metadata and linked open data (LOD) identifiers. The database currently consists of 4800+ curated images of historic American and Canadian highway, railway and pedestrian bridges constructed between 1865 and…[Read more]