And “NLP” means…
In the post Writing for Hypotheses in Org-mode, I described how much better blogging becomes once you can directly post from your Emacs. This is a long overdue update. Because, unfortunately,...
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I have a long-standing interest in electronic digital publishing. In fact, my first job after getting my master’s degree was with a large scientific publisher, so besides having the experience of an...
View ArticleThe Digital Age (English remix)
Last year, Wolfgang Schmale wondered in a blog post (in German) whether the expression the digital age has established itself as designation of a new historical period, noting that it is “doing quite...
View ArticleForward to the Dark Ages of Document Processing!
I recently finished and submitted an article for a journal. Apart from submissions in “*.doc / *.docx, *.rtf or *.odt,” as it says on the journal’s Web site, the agreement I signed actually also...
View ArticleTouch-Typing, the Underrated Superpower
I recently came across the article 10-Finger-Schreiben: Die völlig unterschätzte Superkraft (“Touch-typing: the totally underrated superpower”; if you don’t read German, you can go directly to the...
View ArticleLocalizing Place Names in Bibliographies
If you need to create bibliographies for different purposes, in different languages and styles, one problem is that sometimes you want the place of publication (or, if applicable, the venue) to include...
View ArticleNLP vs. NLP
I finally had the ISSN record for this blog corrected. About two years ago, I noticed that the ISSN record for this blog listed “Neuro-linguistic programming for historical texts” as “other title” for...
View ArticleWhat Are We Uncertain About? The Challenge of Historiographical Uncertainty
When people talk about uncertainty in a historical context in digital humanities, most of the time they talk about questions such as the exact date of birth of a person, whether two names refer to one...
View ArticleMaking Markdown
I’m writing more and more of my papers in Markdown and use pandoc to produce PDF files for submission. The settings and customizations necessary to produce a PDF document conforming with specifications...
View Article“What has digital technology changed in our relationship to research?”
This post is the English translation of a statement given at the Journée de la recherche en Lettres at UNIL on March 12, 2021, in response to the question: “how has digital technology changed (or not)...
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