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2006-2007 Workshops

Literary Studies and the Digital Library:
Beyond Search and Access

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Description

This workshop will bring together graduate students, faculty, librarians, and others to discuss the specific sort of humanities research that has been made possible by recent advances in information technology. It will provide a forum in which to think about and explore a sort of research that has never been possible before. What if scholars could perform a search for the word “love” in all of nineteenth-century British fiction and get a graphical representation of the frequency of the word in books written in different geographical locations? It might change our notions of Romantic and Victorian literature. This workshop will think through the rich ways in which digital resources might be mined for new ways of understanding.


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