{"id":4648,"date":"2013-02-07T19:54:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-07T19:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4648"},"modified":"2013-02-08T22:50:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-08T22:50:21","slug":"virtual-research-worlds-new-technology-in-the-humanities-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4648","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Research Worlds: New Technology in the Humanities &#8211; YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The folk at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.textgrid.de\/en.html\">TextGrid<\/a> have created a neat video about new technology in the humanities, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kjO9epVZHa0\">Virtual Research Worlds: New Technology in the Humanities<\/a>. The video shows the connection between archives and supercomputers (grid computing). At around 2:20 you will see a number of visualizations from Voyant that they have connected into TextGrid. I love the links tools spawning words before a bronze statue. Who is represented by the statue?<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"425\" height=\"350\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kjO9epVZHa0\" \/><embed width=\"425\" height=\"350\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kjO9epVZHa0\" wmode=\"transparent\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Update: Sibylle of TextGrid updated me on who the statue in the video is of. It is of,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, a German scientist, writer and thinker of the 18th century (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Georg_Christoph_Lichtenberg<\/a>) who held a professorship in physics at G\u00f6ttingen University (where we are situated) in many years. He was a brilliant satirist and aphorist and is today known as one of the founders of scientific methodology in Germany. The statue is located in the courtyard of the historical building of G\u00f6ttingen State and University Library, where our TextGrid offices are.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folk at TextGrid have created a neat video about new technology in the humanities, Virtual Research Worlds: New Technology in the Humanities. The video shows the connection between archives and supercomputers (grid computing). At around 2:20 you will see a number of visualizations from Voyant that they have connected into TextGrid. I love the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/?p=4648\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Virtual Research Worlds: New Technology in the Humanities &#8211; YouTube<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,45,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-markup-and-text-representation","category-supercomputing","category-text-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4648"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4651,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4648\/revisions\/4651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theoreti.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}