This brief report was completed as part of the AHRC-funded Academic Book of the Future project. The purpose of this report is to query whether born digital “edge cases” can be considered to be the scholarly quivalent of the academic book.

For a list of all reports and resources generated by the project, see:…[Read more]

An account of my use of stylometry to analyse the works of James Patterson, written for a public audience.

James Patterson is the world’s best-selling living author, but his approach to writing is heavily criticised for being too commercially driven — in many respects, he is considered the master of the airport novel, a highly-productive source of commuter fiction. A former marketing professional, Patterson uses his business acumen to drive sales of…[Read more]

Initially, I conduct a stylometric analysis of Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake, and Finn’s Hotel, using the relative frequencies of the 100 most frequent words in each text to form an authorial signature. In doing so, I hope to demonstrate whether the collection is, from the perspective of style, quite d…[Read more]

Tracing the emergence of academic disciplines in a national context is a useful undertaking, as it goes beyond the definition of a field to an assessment of its evolution within a more specific cultural context. This is particularly the case in the Digital Humanities, where the infrastructural requirements are such that the development of the…[Read more]

This essay discusses Holes, a ten syllable one-line-per-day work of digital poetry that is written by Graham Allen, and published by James O’Sullivan’s New Binary Press. The authors, through their involvement with the piece, explore how such iterative works challenge literary notions of fixity. Using Holes as representative of “organic” databas…[Read more]

Using the Pennsylvania State University Libraries as a case study, this essay explores the development of a library-based open access publishing program, and illustrates how open access library publishing can facilitate open access models by providing additional infrastructure for the dissemination of scholarly content.