Comments for digitalvictorianist.com

Comment on ‘Looming Large: America and the Victorian Press, 1865-1902′ by Bill Peschel

Bill Peschel — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 11:58:43 +0000

I’m looking forward to checking this out. I’m annotating material from this time, so anything that gives me details on any aspects of Victorian culture is appreciated. Thank you for making it available.

Comment on PhD Studentships at Edge Hill by John Wallen

John Wallen — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 21:41:25 +0000

http://journals.sfu.ca/vict/index.php/vict/index

Comment on ‘Looming Large: America and the Victorian Press, 1865-1902′ by Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen

Ann Lazarsfeld-Jensen — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 09:53:16 +0000

Thanks bob I’ve got it on my IPad for bedtime reading. This topic will keep me awake. Being in the Australian outback with slow bandwidth connections I am always searching for digitised Victorian theatrical publications….my university doesn’t subscribe to all the database I want. I can get some through our national libraries . Hoping to learn more from your thesis.

Comment on The Pleasures of Print 2: This Time It’s Personal by Paul Fyfe

Paul Fyfe — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 17:44:55 +0000

Admire the attention to physical particularity to match the enthusiasm for networked digital resources. A copy is not an edition, as they say, and each potentially has stories to tell. But Laurel Brake would probably take issue with the seeming ephemerality of print copies. Heard this argument at NAVSA 2008; it has since been published as “The Longevity of ‘Ephemera’: Library Editions of Nineteenth-century Periodicals and Newspapers.” Media History 18.1 (2012): 7–20. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13688804.2011.632192

Comment on PhD Studentships at Edge Hill by Karen McAulay

Karen McAulay — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 16:10:13 +0000

Looks an excellent deal to me – I wish my younger self had seen it!

Comment on Review: The British Newspaper Archive by Bob Nicholson

Bob Nicholson — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 12:21:21 +0000

I agree, Tom. The new site does bring some useful new features (and they’ve shown a willingness to make improvements since I wrote this review), but they can’t match the power and flexibility of the previous site’s search engine. The basic search interface is fine, but once you try and construct more complex and precise queries it isn’t quite up to the task.

Comment on Review: The British Newspaper Archive by Tom Hughes

Tom Hughes — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 20:13:51 +0000

What I miss most from the previous BL newspaper site was the ability to categotize the search terms by Document Title (Headline) and Full Text. This “headline” searching really helps targeting helpful (or more likely to be helpful) articles.

Comment on The Digital Turn by Bob Nicholson

Bob Nicholson — Mon, 14 Jan 2013 12:32:28 +0000

Indeed. Like so many of the things he was involved in, he was just a bit too far ahead of the game. In a few years time the publicly-funded research he was caught liberating will (hopefully) be accessible to everybody legally.

Comment on The Digital Turn by Cynthia Martin

Cynthia Martin — Sun, 13 Jan 2013 15:44:33 +0000

Right on. Your good argument makes me think of the suicide of Aaron Swartz—really sad.

Comment on Skedaddlemania! by Rob Spence

Rob Spence — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:17:28 +0000

That’s the next video sorted, then…