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Named Entity Recognition with Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In earlier posts we used a variety of tools to locate and contextualize words and phrases in texts, including regular expressions, concordances and search engines. In every case, however,...
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Doing OCR Using Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In previous posts, we looked at a variety of Linux command line techniques for analyzing text and finding patterns in it, including word frequencies, permuted term indexes, regular...
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Working with PDFs Using Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction We have already seen that the default assumption in Linux and UNIX is that everything is a file, ideally one that consists of human- and machine-readable text. As a result, we have a very...
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Working with Structured Data Using Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In previous posts we focused on manipulating human- and machine-readible text files that contained prose. Text files are also frequently used to store tabular data or database records that...
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Simple XML Parsing and Graph Visualization with Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In the previous post, we used command line tools to manipulate and study text files that contained rows and columns of data, some numeric. These kind of files are often known as CSV...
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Writing a Simple Web Spider Using Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In the previous post we used the OCLC WorldCat Identities database to learn more about Frank N. Meyer, a botanist who made a USDA-sponsored expedition to South China, 1916-18. We requested...
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Working with Bibliographic APIs using Command Line Tools in Linux
Introduction In previous posts we started with the URLs for particular online resources (books, collections, etc.) without worrying about where those URLs came from. Here we will use a variety of tools...
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Installing Debian Linux in a Virtual Machine 2014
Many digital humanists are probably aware that they could make their research activities faster and more efficient by working at the command line. Many are probably also sympathetic to arguments for...
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Creating the HistoryCrawler Virtual Machine
This past summer, Ian Milligan, Mary Beth Start and I worked on customizing a Debian Linux virtual machine for doing historical research using digital primary and secondary sources. The machine is...
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Technology and the Historical Imagination (Public Lecture, Western...
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View ArticleHacking as a Way of Knowing 2 (#hackknow2): Sound, Electronics and Breakdown
On Thursday 2 November and Monday 6 November 2017, I will be holding one day, hands-on hacking workshops in my lab at Western University in London, Ontario, Canada. The theme of the workshops is noise...
View ArticleSome Computational History Links
Here are some links for Spring 2019 talks on computational history that I gave at the Fields Institute and MIT. Sites that can be used with no prior programming experience: Gavagai Living Lexicon IFTTT...
View ArticleClose Reading: Historians, Detectives and Spies
Here are some references and links for seminars that I conducted for my department’s “High School History Day” in November 2019. The conceit of historians as detectives is very common in the field. By...
View ArticleText and Image Mining for Historical Research (Wolfram Virtual Technology...
Scholars in history and other humanities tend to work differently than their colleagues in science and engineering. Working alone or occasionally in small groups, their focus is typically on the close...
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