Many thanks to Adam Mestyan and Sabine Schmidtke for their wonderful hospitality during the March 2024 workshop on digital publication of right-to-left editions at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. My contribution was:

“Are Current Trends Leading to a Dead End? Two Case Studies on the Limits and Potential of Digital Methods for Arabic-Script Scholarly Editions.” Scholarly Digital Editions of Arabic-Script Texts, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, March 22, 2024.

My slides are available as a pdf here.

I presented a synopsis of the various types of text visualization efforts I have tinkered with over the last few years, including new discourse mapping software developed with Exaptive (an Oklahoma City software firm), at a University of Oklahoma Research Discussion Series panel hosted by Georgia Kosmopoulou and the College of Arts & Sciences:

“Mapping Global Intellectual Networks in Qur’anic Hermeneutics: Visualizations from a Digital Humanities Tinkerer.” College of Arts & Sciences Research Discussion Series panel on Network Structure, Visualization and Analysis across Scholarly Domains. University of Oklahoma, Norman, November 30, 2018.

My slides, including presenter notes, are available here as a PowerPoint file.

I used the same slides in a joint presentation with Josh Southerland, a data scientist and programmer at Exaptive, about the discourse mapping software:

David Vishanoff and Josh Southerland. “Termscapes Can Change the Landscape of Text Analysis.” Data+Creativity meetup. Exaptive, Oklahoma City, December 6, 2018.

I also presented the discourse mapping software at OU’s Academic Tech Expo:

“Distant Reading: A Program to Map out the Contents of All Those Texts You Don’t Have Time to Read.” Academic Tech Expo, University of Oklahoma, Norman, January 11, 2019.

An update will be posted here on vishanoff.com when the discourse mapping software is ready to accept new users.

At the invitation of Ismail Serageldin and Noha Adly, my collaborator Dave King and I presented our discourse mapping software at a big data conference in Cairo:

David Vishanoff and Dave King. “So Many Books, So Little Time: Using Algorithms to Map the Landscape of a Discourse.” Bibliotheca Alexandrina / SIMAR Conference “Big Data Analytics—Bridging the Gap between Theory and Practice,” Cairo, November 12, 2018.

Dave King is the founder and CEO of Exaptive. Together we have created software that allows scholars to map the landscape of an unfamiliar set of texts, interactively explore their key terms, figures, and relationships, and then redraw the map to zero in on areas of particular interest.

Here is a pdf of the slides we used in our presentation. An update will be posted here at vishanoff.com once the software is made available for scholars to upload and map their own sets of texts.