DH Workbench: Using Voyant Tools with Spyral Notebooks for Text Analysis
- Date
- March 11, 2021
- Time
- 3:00 PM EST - 4:00 PM EST
- Open To
- Everyone - register for Zoom link
- Contact
- Tanya Pobuda tpobuda@torontomu.ca
- Website
- https://cdh.rula.info/newsletter/march-at-the-cdh/ (external link)
Hosts: Jason Boyd, Geoffrey Rockwell, and Kaylin Land
Dr. Stéfan Sinclair, a leading Canadian Digital Humanist who sadly passed away last year (https://csdh-schn.org/stefan-sinclair-in-memoriam-2/ (external link) ), was a co-creator, with Dr. Geoffrey Rockwell, of Voyant Tools, a web-based reading and analysis environment for digital texts as well as a co-author, with Dr. Rockwell, of Hermeneutica (2016). Join Dr. Rockwell (University of Alberta) and Ph.D. candidate Kaylin Land (McGill University) for a demonstration of Voyant and an associated project Dr. Sinclair was leading: Spyral Notebooks.
Some learning walkthroughs for Voyant can be found at http://dialogi.ca (external link) . Examples of the use of Voyant can be read at https://beta.voyant-tools.org/docs/#!/guide/gallery (external link) .