Creating an Export Workflow Using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab | By Sarah Ketchley, Digital Humanities Specialist, Gale | Cover photo from The Illustrated London News This digital project was prompted by my interest in the reporting of archaeology in The Illustrated London News, a publication notable for its fine illustrations and contributions by some … Read more
We’ve made updates to the way users can create a sign-in to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab, furthering its commitment to a secure and seamless user experience for faculty and student access. | By Margaret Waligora, Product Manager | Since its launch in 2018, users have been able to sign in to the Gale Digital Scholar Lab using … Read more
| By Maggie Waligora, Product Manager II | I had the opportunity to attend the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) at the University of Victoria last month. If you’re not familiar with DHSI, it’s a two-week-long series of digital humanities (DH)-centric workshops that are organized and led by practitioners within the global DH community. The … Read more
| By Maggie Waligora, Product Manager II | We’re excited to announce the latest round of enhancements to Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab! Based on feedback from users, these updates will improve the workflow and functionality for students and researchers. Read below for details. Named Entity Recognition enhancements—The development effort focused on redesigning the visualization and … Read more
| By Gale Staff | Since its release last year, Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab has been making waves and transforming the way scholars and students access and analyze Gale primary source content. Offering solutions to some of the most common challenges facing researchers in the digital humanities today, Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab integrates an unmatched depth and breadth of digital … Read more
| By Gale Staff | The 2018 winners of the DH Awards have been announced and Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab was selected as the first runner up out of 12 Digital Humanities tools! This distinction would not have been possible without your votes, as the awards are decided by votes from the public. On behalf of … Read more
| By Sydney Fairman | The Digital Humanities (DH) Awards have been recognizing talent and expertise in the Digital Humanities community since 2012, and this year, Gale’s Digital Scholar Lab has been nominated in the category for “Best DH Tool or Suite of Tools.” If you’re a Digital Scholar Lab enthusiast, we need your help … Read more
| By Sydney Fairman | Gale is excited to announce several enhancements to the Digital Scholar Lab. We have made notable improvements to the overall workflow, text cleaning capabilities, and topic modeling tool. For instance, the topic modeling tool offers a new topic overview and “topic proportion by document” results. Along with tabular data, these enhancements … Read more
| By Sydney Fairman | Gale’s newly launched Digital Scholar Lab has received two outstanding reviews from American Reference Books Annual and Booklist. Digital Scholar Lab, a cloud-based research environment, allows both students and researchers to apply natural language processing tools to raw text data (OCR) from Gale Primary Sources in a single research platform. Read below … Read more
| By Heather Hedden | Gale engaged with the library community at last month’s Computers in Libraries (CIL) conference in more ways than one: through the exhibits, attending educational sessions, presenting, and hosting a social event. Computers in Libraries (April 16-19 in Washington, DC) is probably the largest library conference and trade show that is … Read more