Category: Scraps

This category collects assorted brief writings and other work. Click on the titles to read each post.

New Publication: Data Paper. Data from Graphic Medicine… Insigths from Comics Producers

~ Ernesto Priego

Excited to have a new peer-reviewed publication, a data paper on the Journal of Open Health Data: Farthing, A. & Priego, E., (2016). Data from ‘Graphic Medicine’ as a Mental Health Information Resource: Insights from Comics Producers. Open Health Data. 4(1), p.e3. DOI: http://doi.org/10.5334/ohd.25

New addition to the Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics special collection

~ Ernesto Priego

I have co-edited with Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship. We have published a new addition to the collection.

Libraries! Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets (part IV)

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 2 Comments

    This is part IV. For necessary context, methodology, limitations, please see here (part 1),  here (part 2), and here (part 3). Since this was published and shared for the first time I may have done new edits. I often come back to posts once they have been published to revise them. --- Throughout … Continue reading Libraries! Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets (part IV)

Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets (part II)

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 3 Comments

Here's an edited list of the top 50 most frequent terms extracted from a cleaned dataset comprised of 10,721 #WLIC2016 Tweets published between Monday 15/08/2016 10:11:08 EDT and Wednesday 17/08/2016 07:16:35 EDT.

What Library Folk Live Tweet About: Most Frequent Terms in #WLIC2016 Tweets

~ Ernesto Priego ~ 3 Comments

I have looked at the text from 4,945 Tweets published with #WLIC2016 since 14/08/2016 until 15/08/2016 11:16:06 (EDT, Columbus Ohio time).

Visualise This: Getting Attention to Journal Subscription Expenditure

~ Ernesto Priego

As part of ongoing research in collaboration with my colleague Domenico Fiormonte on academic publishing and 'monopolies of knowledge' we have been looking at the available data on the amount of money universities spend on journal subscriptions.

‘BBCDebate’ on Twitter. A First Look into an Archive of #BBCDebate Tweets

~ Ernesto Priego

"The BBC's Great Debate" was broadcasted live in the UK by between 20:00 and 22:00 BST. I collected some of the Tweets tagged with #BBCDebate using a Google Spreadsheet. I have shared a dataset and share some insights from the data here.

Nabokov’s Cabinet

~ Ernesto Priego

The so-called Nabokov Genitalia Cabinet in Nabokov's former office at Harvard University's Comparative Zoology department. (Photograph from Nancy Pick's and Mark Sloan's The Rarest of the Rare: Stories Behind the Treasures at the Harvard Museum of Natural History).