Part of the work for our grant to Birkbeck from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is to create a software project that uses the annotation backend of hypothes.is to allow others to translate scholarly works (and for a user base to then be able to view those translations). Essentially, we want the sentence keying tech. to key to foreign languages.
CaSSius is the PDF typesetter that I am building as part of my work for the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to Birkbeck for the Open Library of Humanities. CaSSius allows for true XML-first workflows. #Background CaSSius is called CaSSius (with that capitalization) because it uses a feature of “CSS” called Regions.
Different groups of open-access advocates want different things to be achieved by OA. The “OA movement” is not a homogenous group. Some members of the group believe that all publishing labour is unncessary or could/should be volunteerist. Others want to allow people to read green open access accepted versions, but are happy to leave it at that. Some want a wholesale flip to gold open access and accept that it might cost more.
Yesterday, I wrote of a challenge that I faced in working out which texts in a corpus have decent OCR and, then, which texts they actually are. This morning, I put together a small script that has a first go at this. I enclose this below for anybody who is interested.
For part of one of my current research projects I have a pretty large (26GB) corpus of digitized JSON novels. I’m interested in ingesting these and then performing various methods of authorship attribution to them using delta, nearest shrunken centroid and other techniques.
The title here is a little deceptive. Because, clearly, I do know what we mean when we call scholarly communications platforms ‘sustainable’. We mean that they will, through one business model or another, manage to maintain themselves without research funders ploughing endless cash into them. Yet, I’ve been thinking about this recently and it comes with several pre-assumptions that are quite tricky to unpick.
In a famous US Supreme Court case on pornography: “I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it and the motion picture involved in this case is not that.” Some friends/colleagues have been reading this as: “Stewart is not arguing that he can recognise something, in his case
If you are attempting to build the dev setup for hypothes.is v0.8.14 and are receiving the error “OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory” whenever you request pages on the dev site, you need to install compass. sudo apt-get install ruby1.9.1-dev sudo gem install compass Hypothes.is v0.8.14 error: "OSError: [Errno 2] No such file or directory" was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at Martin Paul Eve on May 11, 2016.
Dear all, I am writing to complain about recent news reports in which Royal Free patient data, including my own, has been shared with Google. Firstly, to the extent permissible under English law, I wish to withdraw my consent for this information to be shared with Google or any other organization without my explicit consent.
I’ve been pursuing a Freedom of Information request against the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills for some time now. BIS have consistently tried to block me from finding out what the Minister for HE, Jo Johnson (hereafter JJ), discussed with Elsevier. (Thank you, “most transparent government ever”.) Today the Information Commissioner ruled at least partly in my favour and BIS have given me the handwritten notes from the meeting.
