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]

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]

The term ‘distant reading’ resonates across DH: It is played on in book titles (Distant Horizons, Underwood 2019) and adapted to new fields (‘Distant Viewing’, Arnold and Tilton 2019). It spurs alternative formulations (‘Scalable Reading’, Mueller 2012) and is present in mainstream media (“What is Distant Reading?”, Schulz 2011). It is a popular…[Read more]

Oupoco (L’ouvroir de poésie combinatoire) is a project taking inspiration from Raymond Queneau’s book “Cent mille mille milliards de poèmes”, published in 1961. Queneau’s book is a collection of ten sonnets which verses can be freely recombined to form new poems. It would be tempting to develop a computer-based version of Queneau’s work, but Que…[Read more]

Art market studies have long relied on econometrics to explain the prices of works through a series of variables, such as the dimensions of the work, its medium, its date, whether or not its creator is alive, etc. However, this quantitative analysis fails to measure the qualitative opinion on the work, that can be found in exhibition or auction…[Read more]

The “replication crisis” that has been raging in fields like Psychology (Open Science Collaboration 2015) or Medicine (Ioannidis 2005) for years has recently reached the field of Artificial Intelligence (Barber 2019). One of the key conferences in the field, NeurIPS, has reacted by appointing ‘reproducibility chairs’ in their organizing committee.…[Read more]

This paper describes the background and development of Check Your Privilege (https://privilege.huc.knaw.nl/), a digital privilege game designed to create awareness in the context of diversity and inclusion workshops.