Edited by Matthew K. Gold, Debates in the Digital Humanities is one of the most important 2012 publication in the field of DH. A few days ago (well, weeks now), an open access version went out. This version – the texts themselves but also the whole web platform – can be downloaded. Based on a social platform, this edition’s aim seems to be to capture new debates in this fastly evolving field, in order to publish during 2013 (and beyond, I suppose) an expanded version, with more contributions. You can mark paragraph if you think they are of interest and help to ameliorate the index. In this sense, this open access edition is also a contribution to the “future of the book”.
As I’m progressively discovering and thinking about “computing reading”, I decided to download the content of the book (yet the original content of the printed version), to transform it into a corpus. I first wanted to try paper machines for zotero but the results where not exploitable. So, after cleaning the HTML formatting from the texts, I created a corpus for iramuteq. The corpus is made of one file with each chapter as a text and some simple variables (parts and chapters). And I started to work on it. These are the first results.