Knowledge Commons | John Bradley | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/johnbradley501/activity/ Activity feed for John Bradley. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 11:31:12 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 81a632b540486c47d5f9637a66a6bc67 John Bradley deposited Finding connections between fundamentally different conceptions of “models” in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895403/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 03:00:02 -0400 One of the major projects in the DH has been to find meanings in text through digital means—text analysis—and the recent the emergence of Large Language Models has presented a radically new extension to this. In contrast, almost all my professional DH life at KCL (in 25 substantial funded DH projects) has centered not on text analysis but rep…[Read more]

]]> 0 df87b227b81f3aa6015c111c7dce879e John Bradley deposited Finding connections between fundamentally different conceptions of “models” https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1895375/ Sat, 03 Aug 2024 09:31:31 -0400 One of the major projects in the DH has been to find meanings in text through digital means—text analysis—and the recent the emergence of Large Language Models has presented a radically new extension to this. In contrast, almost all my professional DH life at KCL (in 25 substantial funded DH projects) has centered not on text analysis but rep…[Read more]

]]> 0 9ecf504097b8caed68f503b70173ba2c John Bradley deposited Exploring a Model for the Semantics of Medieval Legal Charters https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1832459/ Fri, 03 Feb 2023 11:12:31 -0500 This paper describes several aspects of a formal digital semantic model that expresses some issues presented by medieval charters. Surprisingly, perhaps, this model does not deal directly with a charter’s text and is not mark-up based. Instead, it draws on the authors’ experience with the construction of three highly structured fac…[Read more]

]]> 0 d13f7342f62c35fd8e4d2613097a61d8 John Bradley deposited Annotation and Scholarship: How might they connect in a digital context? in the group Digital Humanists https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773290/ Sun, 27 Feb 2022 02:24:15 -0500 In this keynote presentation to the DARIAH Experts Workshop "Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotaiton Activities" I explore where annotation fits into traditional and contemporary humanities scholarship practice, and show what aspects of this annotation practice is represented in my Pliny software.

]]> 0 e026611813f704fcda9c82ff5494f2e5 John Bradley deposited Annotation and Scholarship: How might they connect in a digital context? https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773240/ Sat, 26 Feb 2022 10:25:49 -0500 In this keynote presentation to the DARIAH Experts Workshop "Practices and Context in Contemporary Annotaiton Activities" I explore where annotation fits into traditional and contemporary humanities scholarship practice, and show what aspects of this annotation practice is represented in my Pliny software.

]]> 0 e72a1383201950f77c019edf6a11c215 John Bradley's profile was updated https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773175/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:52:02 -0500 0 25054f6b8c9a3268d9ddbb5785942e9e John Bradley changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1773174/ Fri, 25 Feb 2022 19:37:20 -0500 0 e3cde0f20112a506ee28b4b3d376d049 John Bradley deposited Thinking about Interpretation: Pliny and Scholarship in the Humanities John Bradley john.bradley@ https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766253/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:27:50 -0500 Pliny is a piece of software that is meant to stimulate discussion within the Digital Humanities (DH) about how tools might be built that could find greater acceptance within the wider humanities community; something that has eluded the DH to date. Unlike many other tool projects within the DH, which are meant to show new and novel ways to apply…[Read more]

]]> 0 fd9b111457180040d9184f37a3cedc8e John Bradley deposited Playing together: modular tools and Pliny https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1766245/ Thu, 13 Jan 2022 18:02:25 -0500 In the early days the Digital Humanities (DH) focused on the development of tools to support the individual scholar to perform original scholarship, and tools such as OCP and TACT emerged that were aimed at the individual scholar. Very little tool-building within the DH community is now aimed generally at individual scholarship. The Pliny project…[Read more]

]]> 0 8adb72d199facc4e7eaa49969cb7b70e John Bradley deposited Fitting Personal Interpretations with the Semantic Web https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764895/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 19:07:47 -0500 The emergence of formal ontologies into the World Wide Web has had a significant effect on research in certain fields. In parts of the Life Sciences, for example, key research information has been captured in formal domain ontologies, like those mentioned in the Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies (OBABO) website. Annotating texts to link…[Read more]

]]> 0 74961a1f1b6b96283abcef082cf7f833 John Bradley deposited Annotation and Ontology in most Humanities research: accommodating a more informal interpretation context https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764886/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 18:29:24 -0500 The emergence of formal ontologies into the World Wide Web has had a profound effect on research in certain fields: in the Life Sciences, for example. We will call the activity of linking references in a domain literature directly to entities in one or more domain ontologies "direct semantic annotation". Although direct semantic annotation to a…[Read more]

]]> 0 b41a71319e265c9be720575fd28f2fde John Bradley deposited When WordHoard met Pliny: breaking down interaction silos between appliations https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764779/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 13:42:35 -0500 Compressed abstract from conference proceedings: One of the current issues within DH is the wish to break down “silos” between different applications, usually based on the observation that it is difficult to bring two separately developed applications together even on kinds of data that they might actually share. Scholarly notetaking has not bee…[Read more]

]]> 0 d8ff388a7e2a93c0bbfd7ebfc09f2865 John Bradley deposited Pliny: Four perspectives https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764775/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:55:36 -0500 The presentation focused on four ways in which the Pliny project was a research project:
(1) Pliny is a piece of software that I developed over the past few years as a kind of thought-piece about tools for humanities scholarship, including and Engelbartian approach to considereng some of the potential that arises out of developing software that…[Read more]

]]> 0 a3527bac951802f3be5f00614951df2e John Bradley deposited Can Pliny be one of the muses? How Pliny could support scholarly writing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764774/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 12:22:41 -0500 Compressed from DH 2009 proceedings:
In Bradley 2008a the software Pliny is described as a tool to support traditional scholarship, which, in turn, is assumed to be based on the reading of primary and secondary texts and the eventual writing of new secondary texts that describe an interpretation that has emerged in the scholar’s mind as s/he w…[Read more]

]]> 0 9a2e4d033ae4f76de105862843559f78 John Bradley deposited (Out)Fitting "the individual scholar" for Service-Oriented Computing: experiments with Pliny https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764771/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:56:39 -0500 Since software services, and the innovative software architectures that they require, are becoming widespread in their use in the Digital Humanities, it is important to facilitate and encourage problem and solution sharing among different disciplines to avoid reinventing the wheel. The Pliny presentation within the workshop described how the…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce67453afb334c182c9b656e6c8887a2 John Bradley deposited Making a contribution: Modularity, integration and collaboration between tools in Pliny https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764767/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 11:16:38 -0500 Tools have been an issue since the foundation of Humanities Computing, and building modular tools that work together has been recognised as important since at least the CETH meetings in 1995. Geoffrey Rockwell and I first raised issues of modularity in our paper given at the Canadian Learned Societies Conference in June 1992 entitled “Towards n…[Read more]

]]> 0 f1ce0703c0a3cd4e83be2b46d87c1abd John Bradley deposited Pliny: A Response to the B2C "Cultural Hegemony" in Humanities Computing https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1764765/ Wed, 05 Jan 2022 10:21:03 -0500 Shortened abstract from DH 2006 proceedings: For a number of years now the WWW has acted as the dominant paradigm for the delivery of digital resources for the humanities. At King College London’s CCH and indeed at other computing humanities centres with which I am familiar, a “digital project” is in almost all cases equated to a project that…[Read more]

]]> 0 d405907cc08f1745e13b96e84730670a John Bradley deposited Combining the Factoid Model with TEI: examples and conceptual challenges https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1756713/ Wed, 27 Oct 2021 08:44:58 -0400 The Factoid Model arose out of various prosopographies undertaken in partnerships with King’s College London’s Department of Digital Humanities (KCL DH). It first appeared in a rudimentary form in the 1990s, but in more recent times has stimulated significant interest from historians who are trying to apply formal data structures such as RDF to…[Read more]

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