NYT: Analyzing Victorian Literature by Words and Numbers

The latest NYT article on digital humanities was published over the weekend. (Here’s the first.) I like how the graphic for the frequency of “Christian” looks like a skyline filled with churches.

The full project is available online at victorianbooks.org, where the researchers have kindly made their data available open access.

Jane Austen fiction manuscripts available online

Scans of the manuscripts were recently made available by a project of the Oxford, Kings College, & the  British Library:

Jane Austen’s fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. The manuscripts were held in a single collection until 1845, when at her sister Cassandra’s death they were dispersed among family members, with a second major dispersal, to public institutions and private collections, in the 1920s.¹ Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen’s working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry.

via Eightface

Out of the Blue, ELO’s Electronic Literature Directory Launches

(Sorry, not that ELO!)

The Electronic Literature Directory is a resource for readers and writers of born-digital literature. Created by the Electronic Literature Organization, it provides an extensive database listing electronic works, their authors, and their publishers. The descriptive entries are drafted by a community of e-lit authors who also tag each work and identify the techniques used in its creation. Discussions of entries are ongoing and offer a networked, peer-to-peer model for literary review.

Vist the Electronic Literature Directory.

Visit Donald Judd’s library with minimal effort

Clicking a book links you to WorldCat, at which point you can request the title from ILL-- a nice touch from the non-lending library.

If you can’t get down to Marfa, TX (which, at some point in your life, you should), Donald Judd‘s library is now browseable online. Housed at the Chinati Foundation (hundreds of miles from Anywhere, TX) on some very Juddly shelves, the collection was meticulously recreated online for all to see.

Read an interview with the developers of this resource on ARTINFO.

Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come

Thanks to Rice University Press, the papers presented at March’s Online Humanities Scholarship: The Shape of Things to Come conference at UVA are now available to read online.

Charles Henry‘s Removable Type piece is of particular interest to librarians for its treatment of scholarly communication, the serials crisis, and digital presses.