This presentation draws from forthcoming work on the Goodreads “classics.”

Goodreads is the largest social networking site for readers on the internet (90 million users) and a subsidiary of Amazon. The “classics” are one of the most active Goodreads categories, with some of the most rated and reviewed books across the entire site. Why are the…[Read more]

The Digits team (Matt Burton, Matthew J. Lavin, Jessica Otis, and Scott B. Weingart) convened around the question of how we might share, preserve, and legitimize scholarship freed from the affordances of print. For the A.W. Mellon-funded Digits Planning Grant (2016-2018), the PIs had three goals:

– Investigate the use of software containers for…[Read more]

Architectural historical texts implicitly create networks of relations between the objects, people, and texts they examine. Histories of European modern architecture examine a consistent core of these entities. From each of four English-language histories of European modern architecture (by Le Corbusier, Reyner Banham, Anthony Vidler, and…[Read more]

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

In the past ten years, a number of digital projects have demonstrated the possibilities afforded by developing semantic ontologies. Linked Jazz, for example, continues to demonstrate how discoveries can aid libraries and archives in re-imagining the representation of their holdings that contain music. The recently published Linked Irish…[Read more]

This contribution reports on the collaborative effort of building an open access multilingual corpus of European novels published 1840-1920 (the European Literary Text Collection – ELTeC) within the COST Action “Distant Reading for European Literary History” (COST Action CA16204). Working at the intersection of many languages and cultures, we…[Read more]

While interdisciplinary research on metaphor is abundant (Eggs, 2000; Semino & Demjén, 2017; Veale et al., 2016), it is still scarce in Digital Humanities. At the intersection of literary studies, corpus stylistics, and digital humanities, we present an exploratory quantitative metaphor analysis of a corpus of German language lay book reviews.…[Read more]