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CultureNet: A Collection of Digital Curiosities: Electronic Literature Conference

Electronic Literature Conference

Andrew Klobucar and I have just come back from the Electronic Literature Organization
conference in Vancouver WA this past weekend where 120 artists and
scholars met to present and talk about electronic literature. Hosted by

the animals already know by instinct we’re not comfortably at home in our translated world. Rilke, Duino Elegies, First Elegy    For a dip in a new streaming digital project, go to Tributaries at TCR.

progress_2 on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

progress on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Behold the Lexicographer: "slave of science, the pioneer of literature" | Jargon of Eden

The emergence of lexicography as a formal practice and discipline in the mid-18th century helps us interpret two interrelated issues in modern epistemology: 1. the evolution of applied analysis and aesthetic modelling as modes of knowledge, and 2. the growing dependence of knowledge upon media and communication technologies.

 The "pages" of this blog aim to explore contemporary developments in knowledge technologies, specifically the various tools and methods emerging within the Digital Humanities to help quantify, assess and analyze information. There's currently an impressive amount research and experimentation within this field, much of it covering a wide variety of professional disciplines and areas of cultural production. The questions linking such work, however, are quite fundamental:

 

I came to the nora project via a mention of it on the Text Analytics mailing list. The goal of the project is to support Humanities scholars in the interpretation of literary works. I had a look at the demo video which shows the use of the noraVis prototype data mining and visualization software.

The demo video can be viewed here .

Wow ! is making a comback in 2006.... Google recently launched their "Google Trends " site which enables the user to enter a few search terms and view their corresponding frequency distributions over time. Most frequency related data for words is usually restricted to usage counts within a particular text, or throughout a set of texts without any temporal attributes factored in.