DH2017 Abstract Planning

DH2017 Abstract Brainstorming:

• abstract title / project title for DH2017

  • citation history
  • computational citation history: applications of text reuse detection to humanities research
  • echoes through time: applications of text reuse detection to citation histories
  • quantitative citation histories
  • histories of text reuse in critical literature
  • frequently cited passages across time: new methods for studying critical reception of texts

• interpretations of results of Experiment 0

  • shift in critical attention between the end of the novel and the beginning (1950s-2010s)
  • notable difference between climax and denouement (still subject to historical change)
  • what is section 11???

• precedents

  • text reuse projects: TRACER
  • legal document browser??
  • JSTOR Labs: Understanding Shakespeare, the Constitution
  • Dennis Tenen, Digital Displacement: stateofthediscipline.acla.org/entry/digital-displacement
  • viral text network

• abstract contents

  • future plans: larger corpora, etc.