Reflection: Digital Newton Project
By Jindan Chen* Before going to Rob Iliffe’s talk on The Newton’s Project on February 28th, I skimmed through this incredibly comprehensive website about Isaac Newton. Absolutely, it is an exciting on-line read. “The Newton Project” is the name of a non-profit organization which builds up this website. The primary goal of this website is […]
Is it Wrong to Analyze Culture with Google Books?
Oregon State University’s Horning Professor in the Humanities, Anita Guerrini, levels a critique at recent work in the “digital humanities.” She writes, “Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed ‘culturomics’ is not the same as being an […]
