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Wonderful experience of making the website with my kind and excellent classmates. Learned a lot from it. Knew nothing about medical history of British India, not to say the other. Now access to Dufferin Fund and female medicine, also interesting digital mapping #themedicalother

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created a map about some quarantine places in the medical history of British India
The link to the map: https://t.co/L9RtjzfkGP

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@natlibscot Also found it not very convenient to come back to the last layer when browsing the menu items at the left of "browse and search." For example, Form/genre>>Images>>Projections, not able to back to Images, but only to Form/genre. Still, it's a great project! #DHEdinb

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NLS @natlibscot project on the Medical History of British India: https://t.co/CFzsU0PxJn
Useful and abundant resources!
But two "at" of "The India Papers at at the Library" in the 4th paragraph of the home page?
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I am going to read "The Archive after Theory" by Ward and Wisnicki @MeganEWard1 @AdrianWisnicki
https://t.co/krH9ZUr55i
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I can set up with Noteable and access the lesson. #DHEdinb

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@spencerlow105 Still, online literature, which naturally features digitization, may be appropriate for distant reading. I am not very sure what Western online lit is. I think there should be fan novels and experimental e-novels. But commercial and industrial online lit only prosper in China?

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Is filling text analysis with data a “crime?” Can we abstract archetypal plot shapes from novels? For me, Chinese Internet literature, a form of literary “big data,” with numerous participants and works, naturally supporting models and archetypes, may provide an answer. #DHEdinb

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@spencerlow105 Thanks Spencer! I think they are different. Chinese online writers are amateur literary enthusiasts whose works mainly aim at commercial success. It's an industry with production chains from novels to multiple adaptations. Like literary Hollywood but with very low thresholds?

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@LiterallyMagpie Maybe that's why DH emphasize considering the collection of data, the operation, the algorithms, and the results carefully. "Political" data themselves may reflect the limitation of perspective and range. It is essential to know what the results of certain data represent.

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@linmiao_m Thank you Victoria! Yes they both face challenges from the opposite but I wonder if there is any unique advantage of DH for feminism? Because it seems that feminism is a popular topic almost seen everywhere. Can DH platforms attract more outsiders for feminism or anything else?

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Here is @sramsay_unl Stephen Ramsay's "Humane Computation": https://t.co/CWq1xMGuc9
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Humanists may over respect the purity of literary analysis and thus be too alert to introducing big data to their (academic) reading.

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@AelangD Yes I also tried some other words such as the Chinese name of Mo Yan who won Nobel Prize in Literature in 2012 and I do get some results. Also I have tried some German words. But English words undoubtedly possess the center.

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When it is used to search for English words, Google Ngrams shows stronger capability. Although it can examine Chinese stuff, the results are not satisfactory. When I search for 唐诗 (tang poetry), it shows no valid ngrams, which is unbelievable.

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Digital reading has reconstructed the evaluation of books, the importance of authorial personality and readers' recommendations. It also impacts our ways of reading, which differ from traditional close reading. It may involve something more democratic and relational.

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Is code purely apolitical or having social impacts? See Ri's abstract for Marino's article in Debates in the Digital Humanities!
https://t.co/OI1G8CB9ZM @Stwing_Ray
Those debates between programmers and sociologists are somehow similar to Schmidt's article on algorithms.

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Algorithms seem to be an inevitable and debatable part in the digital humanities. Should digital humanists understand the algorithms? Can they? If not, according to @benmschmidt what matters is to understand the transformations and provide new perspectives. #DHEdinb