Digital infrastructure

Infrastructure for digital scholarship: concepts and code

The digital scholarship presented here has an overall logic: there is a natural progression from citation, to successsive forms of textual manipulation and analysis, to applications of those concepts.

While the discussion of this work could be read in a single sequence like a book, I’ve chosen to compose it in separate sections integrated within documentation of Julia packages implementing the concepts under discussion, since I don’t believe that we can ever adequately assess or critique ideas about digital scholarship without running code. I’m trying to have it both ways by linking together a sequence of the prose presentations that you can follow in something more like a single narrative.

(1) Concepts

• read about the concepts underlying this digital work in a single narrative sequence

(2) Code

All code linked from the following sections is written in Julia. Documentation for each Julia package includes tutorials, “how-to” guides for particular tasks, and API documentation. The documentation was built with Quarto, so that all examples of code output are generated from running source code, and all API documentation is extracted from the package’s source code.

• see a graph showing relations among these packages

Graph of package dependencies

Fundamentals: citation and textual analysis

1. citation
2. digital texts
3. a simple illustration: a brief notebook using Julia to apply ideas about citation and digital texts to the American Declaration of Independence.

Projects built on this infrastructure

For examples of work built on this digital infrastructure, see the projects section of this site.

Utilities

A few other Julia packages for various generic tasks.