Nabokov’s Cabinet

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).

Recently Launched: Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics

Brilliant Corners: Approaches to Jazz and Comics is a special collection of peer-reviewed research articles co-edited by Dr Nicolas Pillai (Birmingham City University) and myself for The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship.

Using Open Data in Higher Education – A Mini Survey

If you have used open data in your teaching practice we would like to hear from you. It's only three questions.

#Dataspring: An Idea to Make Depositing Data and Accepted Manuscripts Easier (today at #IDCC15)

Our idea submitted to Jisc's Research Data Spring was successful in passing to the next stage. Today I´ll participate in a workshop in London to present the idea.

#HEFCEMetrics: More on Metrics for the Arts and Humanities

Today I'll participate via Skype at the HEFCE Metrics and the assessment of research quality and impact in the Arts and Humanities workshop, commissioned by the independent review panel. I share below some notes.

The REF According to Twitter: A #REF2014 Update (18/12/14 16:28 GMT)

The results from the REF 2014 were announced in the first minute of the 18th of december 2014. Here I share a quick first look at a sample corpus of texts from Tweets publicly tagged with #REF2014.

“just landed on a comet!” A #CometLanding Archive

I have uploaded to figshare a file that contains approximately 77,318 Tweets published publicly and tagged with #CometLanding between 12/11/2014 09:09 and 05/12/2014 18:07 GMT.

The Technology of Storytelling. Audio of my 1999 interview with Will Eisner now online

I interviewed Will Eisner about storytelling in Mexico City on 2 May 1999. I have digitised the original tape recording, edited my questions out and uploaded the mp3 file to figshare.

Segundo Día de las Humanidades Digitales; Un Archivo de #díahd14

I have created my blog within the Segundo Día de las Humanidades Digitales 2014 and have uploaded and shared an archive containing 425 tweets tagged with #diahd14 on figshare.

1:AM London Altmetrics Conference: A #1AMconf Twitter Archive

I have uploaded a new dataset to figshare: 1:AM London Altmetrics Conference: A #1AMconf Twitter Archive.